About Us

Mrakovic Markovic & Partners Joint Law Office was established in 1991. As a result of variety of “legal schools” and “legal surroundings” they come from and experience its founders obtained, from the very beginning Mrakovic & Partners Law Office provides wide range of legal services to many domestic and foreign clients and has acquired enviable reputation of both professional and layperson public in offering legal services, especially in the area of commercial, contract, criminal, administrative and labor law.

Besides three founders, our Law Office is over time being reinforced with new colleagues and therefore our legal team became symbiosis of experience and energy.

Job dedication, efficiency and professionalism is what our clients reasonably expect form us and from our side we seek to exceed those expectations on mutual satisfaction.

Our Services

In establishing a new legal entity we provide our clients with legal guidance starting from choosing the appropriate legal form (partnership, Ltd, LLC or stock company), over drafting memorandum of association, shareholders agreement, providing legal support in acquiring necessary documents for bank account opening, representation before the commercial registry in the procedure of registering your company. These actions take good organizational skills and finesse and we aim to ease the process for our local or foreign clients with respect to their often very tight and limited schedules providing “one-stop shop” legal service.

In order to achieve and maintain most favorable position on the market as well as to optimize the legal framework of their business making we advise our clients how to set up or change their corporate structure and to conduct legal business both within the company and vis-à-vis their business partners.

We proactively monitor our clients business and decision making and timely suggest changes and adaptions of their legal business in Serbia, before they even know the change is needed.

In this specific and more and more regulated field we support our clients in all legal aspects of the industry, such as creation and publishing of digital media content, obtaining various licenses and solving compliance issues, relations with cable TV operators and regulatory bodies.

We have been involved with this fast blooming and changing industry for several years now. We deal with different specifics of the industry on the B2B and B2C level, such as drafting software/app development contracts, negotiating and contracting partnerships and joint ventures, drafting terms of use/terms and conditions, user license agreements, data privacy policies, building entire legal framework for web portals, their development and exploitation.

 

We are well connected with some of the key players in IT industry and its prominent individuals on Serbian market, such as https://blog.pausal.rs/

Administration is most represented in everyday life. Therefore, we have developed a broad specter of related services, of which we are going to mention only some of the most common administrative procedures that we come across with: representation before real-estate cadaster in the process of registering your rightful ownership, or proving your other rights related to real-estates, registering your intellectual property, i.e. trademark, depositing your authorship, obtaining citizenship, residency permit and employment visa for our corporate clients, representation before Administrative court, Agency for drugs and medical devices, etc.

Our team has been successfully advising clients through stressful and difficult issues that involve reorganization plans, bankruptcy procedures before court and winding up, aka liquidations. We aim to steer our clients towards best available solutions guarding their interest along the way.

When advising local and foreign clients on mergers and acquisitions, new business endeavor or moot question, we offer legal counsel on issues that arise in that occasions. This includes investigating legal exposure of any of the targeted companies’ actions and management and rising to surface all possible threats that may jeopardize the success of the planned investment of our client.
We support our clients, whether from the sell-side or buy-side role, within the entire M&A transaction, starting from the data base setting up and building, over negotiations, until the closing

Our tax team became stronger in 2021. when two colleagues with significant tax adviosory experience joined our team. They gained previous experience working many years in one of the big 4 accounting firms’ Tax & Legal advisory department. We deal with direct taxes (corporate and personal income taxes), indirect taxation (mostly VAT), international tax structuring and planning, property taxes, transaction advisory, tax due diligence, transfer pricing, tax controversy, tax R&D incentives, expatriate taxation, etc.

Maybe one of the most sensitive fields of our law where we provide legal entities our services in a form of establishing legal structure of general acts, employment contracts, and other individual acts and documents, and internal corporate structure. It is our intention to create a tailor made solid base for each of our clients to function with their employees in transparent manner with ease. Along with already cited, our services include legal guidance in resolving moot questions in day-to-day work relations, and in case of irresolvable dispute, initiating and participating in court legal proceedings representing our clients best interests.

Our team is experienced in all aspects of employment relationship, from recruiting to retirement, including cross border and immigration questions. Along with the company management, we aim to develop internal employment practices and procedures and address everyday requirements that may arouse from employment relation.

We provide preventive legal counseling to our clients in their every day endeavors to minimalize the probability of non-compliance with relevant legislation. In this manner we offer our clients legal guidance through the complex local legal system which results in identifying potential criminal offense, infraction or corporate offenses.

If the court or other legal procedure is inevitable, we offer our legal expertise in defense and representation, regardless of the manner in which our client may be affected by the proceedings.

As a part of our client’s team, we provide legal guidance during the negotiations and take active part in the process.

In this most versatile field we aim to surpass the expectations of our clients. We have been part of numerous mergers and acquisitions, multicompany service agreements including international collaboration, NDAs, all in the field of commerce, media, marketing, games of chance, medical devices, construction projects, real-estate investments, etc.

In order to resolve a moot issue more efficiently we invest in seeking a solution through mediation, arbitration and negotiation, in order to bypass long lasting and cost exuding court proceedings for the client. We are proud that we have been a part of numerous satisfying conclusions by virtue of the carefully developed professional expertise of our team.

Should the court proceeding become inevitable, we offer advice in legal procedure strategy, representation before competent courts and active support in all phases of the proceeding by combining broad legal expertise with pragmatic approach.

The emerging market for digital assets is increasingly the subject of interest of regulators around the world and is fundamentally evolving far faster than regulations can keep up with. Therefore, due to legal gaps, we often provide services to our clients by creating unique solutions for them that also rely on comparative legal solutions from the region. In the field of digital assets, we advise developers, technology companies, cryptocurrency exchanges, IP owners, video game developers, as well as investors facing regulatory challenges.

The adoption of the Law on Alternative Investment Funds enabled the development of a completely new market, where it created excellent opportunities both for investors who join funds and invest money with professional management, as well as for the entire start-up community, among other things, since one category of alternative investment funds (VC-funds) dedicated exclusively to investing in the development of newly founded companies with great potential for growth.

Since we participated in the pioneering project – the establishment of the first alternative investment fund in Serbia, we can provide our clients with full legal support related to all stages of this procedure. We also advise investors, startups, entrepreneurs and emerging companies on all aspects of their establishment, development and commercial relations with investment funds.

We also provide legal assistance to natural persons in the following areas:

From our foundation, our Joint office has been counseling and acting as defense for white-collar crimes. Having one of the most influential and respectable attorneys at law in this field as a founder and in front of our legal team, results in successful defending and representing in criminal procedures related to abuse of position, tax evasion, forgery and many others.

Also, we help our clients perform “in-house” investigations in order to detect any potential violations and other key issues.

With active collaboration with our client, we are aiming to detangle sometimes a very complex web of property inter-relations. Whether you are buying your first home, inheriting a family estate, or taking an entrepreneur investment in building or restoring your own house, we are providing legal guidance in obtaining necessary documents, along with drafting contracts and related documents, and representing your interests before competent authorities.

Maybe one of the most sensitive fields of our law where we provide legal counseling for employees in order for them to obtain their work related guaranteed rights, participation or initiation in legal court procedures when the circumstances demands it.

Administration is most represented in everyday life. Therefore, we have developed a broad specter of related services, of which we are going to mention only some of the most common administrative procedures that we come across with: representation before real-estate cadaster in the process of registering your rightful ownership, or proving your other rights related to real-estates, registering your intellectual property, i.e. trademark, depositing your authorship, obtaining citizenship, residency permits, labor visa, representation before Administrative court.

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OFFICE

Kosovska 34,
11000 Belgrade,
Republic of Serbia

PHONE NUMBERS

+381 11 3231 187
+381 11 3239 564
+381 11 3037 067

EMAIL

kontakt@mmplegal.rs

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