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With a new president and parliament – and a new Bar Association President and Management Body – the elections' results still hold the front page for lawyers in Montenegro, while the country plays to its strengths with energy, tourism, and real estate all thriving, according to Law Office Vujacic Partner Jelena Vujisic.

Harrisons, working with DLA Piper UK, has advised the EBRD on its EUR 82 million loan to state-owned electricity company Elektroprivreda Crne Gore and Green Gvozd – a special-purpose vehicle to be fully acquired by EPCG – for the construction of a new 55-megawatt onshore wind farm in Montenegro.

Several updates vie for the front page in Montenegro, from politics, tax reforms, and the influx of high-skilled professionals to vibrant renewable energy sector activity and a booming M&A market, according to Komnenic & Partners Partner Nemanja Radovic.

Montenegro is still considered a rising star in the Balkan peninsula, attracting the attention of potential investors worldwide, and that’s especially the case with the country’s real estate market.

The energy development strategy of the Republic of Serbia until 2025 with projections until 2030, as well as the Integrated National Energy and Climate Plan, which is
currently being developed and adopted, foresee an increase in the share of energy obtained from renewable energy sources in the energy balance of the Republic of Serbia
as a strategic goal.

On August 9, 2022, CEE Legal Matters reported that Vukovic & Partners had advised ODM Collections on obtaining a purchase of receivables work license from the Central Bank of Montenegro. CEE In-House Matters spoke with Drazen Stevanovic, CEO at ODM Collections, to learn more about the matter.

The commercial legal markets of Central & Eastern Europe didn’t appear automatically. They didn’t develop in a vacuum. They were formed, shaped, and led, by lawyers – visionary, hard-working, commercially-minded, and client-focused individuals pulling the development of CEE’s legal markets along behind them as they labored relentlessly for their clients, their careers, their futures. 

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