Jelisaveta Janić
Partner – Attorney at Law
BANKING & FINANCE
Reliable experienced advice
With more than 50 experienced legal experts, our Banking and Finance Department is one of the largest in the Southeast European market, ready to support clients operating in various segments of the financial sector. Our legal team advises clients throughout the Serbian, Bosnian, Montenegrin, Northern Macedonian, Albanian and Kosovo markets.
Banking & Finance is at the core of our legal expertise
This is where our legal practice has initially started building its expertise and knowledge for more than 15 years. Since then, we have positioned ourselves as the leading, regional legal experts providing legal support to commercial banks, international financial institutions, insurance companies, investment funds, but also entrepreneurs, business associations from various industries and other micro, small and medium enterprises.
The world of finance powered by experienced legal advice
Our legal team, specializing in banking and finance, is organized into three expert groups, which makes us particularly agile to respond to the most complex client requests starting from:
- NPL portfolio acquisition and servicing;
- Advising on compliance with the regulations of financial institutions drafting procedures, corporate byelaws, and other legal documents;
- Business finance services;
- project finance;
- Bankruptcy and restructuring;
- Investments and foreign exchange transactions;
- Asset resolution and distressed asset acquisition;
- AML compliance;
- Advising clients seeking to access finance;
- Advising clients seeking to reschedule accounts receivable and payable;
- Legal advice for optimizing operating costs.
We provide the following services in this field:
- Legal due diligence;
- Transaction assistance;
- LSPA drafting and negotiations;
- Financial regulatory compliance;
- Out-of-court and in-court enforcement;
- Representation in alternative dispute resolution and CFR matters.
We take holistic approach in distressed assets management
Our experience and involvement in NPL portfolio acquisitions and servicing and bankruptcy and restructuring have allowed us to build up a strong and firmly business-oriented practice offering full legal support for asset resolution and distressed asset acquisition.
NPL portfolio acquisition & servicing
As soon as a claim has become overdue, we are able to advise our clients on how to minimize their recovery risks and fully utilize all the collateral at their disposal. We provide our clients with a complete set of outsourced services in this area of expertise, from the very first indication that there may be difficulties with recovering a claim up to the final stages of collection.
Advice backed by Technology
Our extensive experience in this area has allowed us to develop internal software and detailed case management systems to ensure maximum cost optimization and time efficiencies for our clients, which permits us to provide market-leading services in this area.
Investments and FX transactions
Our team successfully assists our clients with any legal challenges they may face when structuring their financial investments in Serbia. We have supported clients in many successful privatizations in Serbia and have helped establish greenfield ventures, which has allowed us to gain in-depth knowledge of general financial structuring and various modes of project financing.
We are particularly proud of our experience and quality of our services to foreign investors in helping them navigate Serbia’s complex foreign exchange transactions regulations, especially as this area is yet to see full liberalization. Our wealth of experience and knowledge in this field often contribute greatly to our clients’ success in the Serbian market.