Legal services

in

Montenegro

 

“This team delivered on every possible aspect of deals  – we never even dreamt of looking for another firm.” - Chambers And Partners 2010

 

 

 

Law Office Vujacic provides the highest quality standards in legal services to the various international and local clients and our client’s portfolio includes worldwide corporations, leading companies and associations in region and broad, as well as numerous Montenegrin companies, investors and private clients.

List of our clients includes medium to large companies engaged in finance services, various transactional requirements, real estate and telecommunication matters, employment relations, international banks, large auditing firms, tax, international organizations and associations, etc.

Due to our significant number of international clients, the Law Office Vujacic is very western oriented.

Our goal is to deliver practical and efficient solutions to our clients, and we achieved that through close cooperation with them in order to help them solve problems and create opportunities.

We ensure that when working with us all issues and problems will be dealt with promptly, confidentially and in a discreet manner.

Practice areas that are highly represented in our Law Office are as follows:

Corporate - Our Corporate Team represents the highly experienced team of specialized lawyers within the firm. We have been engaged in some of the biggest and most successful transactions within the region. We ensure that both the day-to-day needs and special transactional requirements of our clients are fully met.

In today’s dynamic business world legal counsels are required not only to be responsive to clients needs but also to take a more proactive role in anticipating those needs. This can only be achieved by knowing enough about the clients business and their internal governance.

Finance - We may say that one of the major practice areas of Law Office Vujacic are finances, as we constantly advise leading financing institutions in the country in the variety of different legal transactions and we liaison with all financial regulatory bodies in the country.

We advise in mergers and acquisitions, loans, securities, joint ventures and equity investments.

We represent business banks, investment funds, leasing companies, and other financial organizations

IP and Telecommunication - Law Office Vujacic offers clients a full range of legal services relating to protection, acquisition, enforcement and commercial exploitation of intellectual property rights.

We advise a number of local and international clients on broad range of intellectual property and telecommunication matters.

We have been representing a number of telecommunication related companies in the country for years.

Competition - Since the enactment of the Law on Protection of Competition and establishment of the Agency for Protection of Competition our Firm has been engaged in different procedures before mentioned authorities and we have actively been involved in trainings that the Commission organizes since.

In that respect, so far, we have successfully completed the filings and obtained the clearances in several procedures for well known foreign investors in the country.

Real Estate -Real estate transactions and investments pose significant challenges to foreign investors interested in Montenegro, today.

Law Office Vujacic advises clients on all aspects of such a transaction including the choice of acceptable vehicle for real estate investments, tax structuring, project finance, lease negotiations and exit strategies.

Our goal is to deliver practical and efficient solutions to our clients, often working together with specialized professionals from other departments within the firm or their international of counsels.

We have vast experience in real estate transactions, including acquisition and disposals, joint ventures, portfolio sales and securitization, developments, construction projects, leases.

Dispute Resolution -Our litigation practice is closely integrated with our services to our clients, largely relating to commercial matters.

In addition to trying cases before commercial and regular courts of Montenegro, our litigation attorneys also handle arbitrations.

Our primary goal is to mediate or negotiate a settlement wherever possible but if an effective settlement through mediation or negotiation is impossible we take cases to trial.

Employment -As our clients are mainly foreign investors, with a business-set-up services and further maintenance services we always provide employment related legal services so as to ensure complete legality of work of the client with the jurisdiction, and full further support in possible employment issues.

Our work includes drafting employment related by-laws such as employment rules, collective bargaining agreements, benefits plans, code of conducts, code of ethics, workplace safety etc, as well as drafting employment contracts, services contracts, professional training agreements, management contracts and other types of agreements related to employment.

Other practice areas - Some of other practice areas of Law Office Vujacic include different kinds of administrative proceedings (foreigners residence and work permits etc.), representation in procedures of granting licenses (energy production and trade, broadcasting, games of chance etc), concessions (highways, waste management) and environmental matters (development projects regarding waste management with a number Montenegrin municipalities as well as continuation of construction and management of the regional landfills and the selection centers).

Therefore, we can guarantee high level of efficiency and competency in all area we cover with legal services and advice. Our people are very experienced professionals and they can handle our clients' most complex and challenging transactions.

From all the above mentioned it can be concluded that our business strategy is to be leading law firm not only in Montenegro, but in the whole region.

 

 

Our Clients

Daily Press d.o.o. (“Vijesti” Daily Newspapers); STRABAG AG Austria; PORSCHE LEASING GROUP; S- LEASING DOO Podgorica; PINK M COMPANY DOO Podgorica; NESTLÉ ADRIATIC DOO Zagreb; SCANIA CREDIT; DIN FABRIKA DUVANA AD Nis a PHILIP MORRIS affiliate; WORLD BANK GROUP; EUROPEAN BANK FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT; BRITISH EMBASSY in Belgrade; BRITISH EMBASSY in Podgorica; SORAVIA GROUP, Austria; ACCENTURE, Great Britain; MICROSOFT CORPORATION; PORR GROUP, Austria; ARCADOM Zrt, Hungary; BANK OF AUSTRIA CREDITANSTALT AG/UNICREDIT BANKA AD; KNAUF GmbH, Germany; NIKE CORPORATION; AVON GROUP; GECAS; EKI TRANSFERS - WESTERN UNION REPRESENTATIVE; AMERICAN EXPRESS; CARLSBERG; PAPPAS GRUPPE, Austria; MARKS AND SPENCER MARINOPOLOUS, Greece; G4S International Holdings Limited/Progard Securitas; SERBIA BROADBAND-SRPSKE KABLOVSKE MREŽE, Serbia; NOVOMATIC GROUP, Austria; ANGLO IRISH BANK, Ireland; ATLAS GRUPA, Belgrade; RAIFFEISEN ZENTRALBANK ÖSTERREICH AG, Austria; PIONEER INVESTMENTS AUSTRIA GmbH, Austria; REHAU GmbH, Austria; PETROL dd, Slovenia; GROSSMANN Bau GmbH & Co. KG, Germany; BAYERISCHE LANDENSBANK; Afilias Limited and GoDaddy, USA; COLLIERS INTERNATIONAL, Montenegro; VISA INTERNATIONAL; SONY; Capital Investments, Abu Dhabi, UAE; MERKUR Versicherung A.G. Austria; Željezara Nikšić a.d. Nikšić; Montenegro Airlines a.d. Podgorica; Vektra Montenegro d.o.o. Podgorica; Stadion d.o.o. Podgorica; Balfin – Neptun Montenegro d.o.o. Pogdgorica; COCA-COLA Hellenic Bottling Company - Crna Gora d.o.o. Podgorica; Ethemba Capital UK, Marfin Bank GR; BNDES – Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento, Brazil; CHEVROLET for Central and Eastern Europe; OPEL for Central and Eastern Europe; Westminster Foundation for Democracy, UK . . .


Outside Associates and Correspondents

Law Office Karanovic & Nikolic, Belgrade

Law Office Jankovic, Popovic & Mitic, Belgrade

Law Office Tomic, Stevic, Dulic, Belgrade,

Law Office Spasic & Partners, Belgrade

Law Office Miro Senica & Attorneys, Ljubljana

Gide Loyrette Nouel, Paris, France

Chrysses Demetriades & Co Law Office, Limassol, Cyprus

Savvides & Partners Pannell Kerr Forster, Limassol, Cyprus

KPMG Belgrade / Budapest / Italy / Russia

Burges Salmon LLP, England

DORDA BRUGGER JORDIS Rechtsanwälte GmbH, Austria

White & Case (Europe) LLP, England.

Oppenheim, Budapest

Wolf Theiss, Wien Austria/Beograd/Budapest/Sarajevo

Clifford Chance, New York, USA

Harrisons Solicitors, Belgrade

 

 
LAW OFFICE VUJACIC
Moskovska Street (Bldg. Maxim II)
81000 Podgorica
Montenegro
Tel./Fax. + 382
20/ 229 725, 229 730
E-mail. info@lawoffice-vujacic.com