Olga Sipka

Practice Areas

Olga Šipka is a Special Counsel in the Belgrade Office and the Head of the local Competition & State Aid service line. Olga’s core practices include competition and antitrust, regulatory and compliance.

She boasts significant, broad-based experience advising and representing leading Serbian and international companies on numerous competition, data protection, corporate, and regulatory projects covering Serbia and the Western Balkans. Her experience extends across a wide range of industries, including pharmaceuticals, energy and natural resources, banking, consumer goods, telecommunications, IT and healthcare.

Olga has also held/developed a number of workshops, training sessions and presentations on compliance with competition, regulatory, anti-bribery, white collar and data protection laws. Olga regularly advises international institutions and state bodies on policy options and facilitates the development and the dialogue between the relevant stakeholders.

Professional Memberships

Belgrade Bar Association.

Publications

Olga is the co-author of World Bank’s publication "Removing Regulatory Barriers to Competition".

Education

Languages Spoken

She speaks Serbian and English.

Expert in these Jurisdictions

Western Balkan region

Clients

Bambi, Mastercard, BPA, Strabag, Alfi Skadi, Zentva, Merck, Miele, Schwarz Group, AIK Banka, CMC Capital Snahgai Electric Power & Energy Development, PowerChina Resources, Lafarge

Work Highlights

1. Defending Mastercard in the the Serbian Competition Authority’s price-fixing cartel investigation.

2. Advising AIK Banka on the merger control aspects of a large horizontal merger in the banking sector, namely the €280m acquisition of Eurobanka Direktna.

3. Advising Lafarge on the merger control proceedings surrounding its acquisition of a quarry.