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Trio of K&N Partners Step up to Senior Level

Trio of K&N Partners Step up to Senior Level

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Karanovic & Nikolic has announced that Milan Lazic, Marjan Poljak, and Darko Jovanovic have been promoted to Senior Partner at the firm.

Milan Lazic joined Karanovic & Nikolic as an Associate in 2007 after spending three years at the Commercial Court in Belgrade. In 2009, he was promoted to Senior Associate and in 2010 he became the head of the Dispute Resolution team. Two years later he made Partner. According to Karanovic & Nikolic, "highlights of his professional career include representing clients in high-profile international court cases as well as in a number of major international arbitration cases before the ICSID, ICC and UNCITRAL arbitrations, and arbitrations before the local Foreign Trade Court of Arbitration in connection with the Serbian Chamber of Commerce." According to the firm, "Milan has represented clients such as the Republic of Serbia, Republic of Bosnia & Herzegovina, including Republika Srpska, the Serbian State Electricity Incumbent, Bank of Austria, Societé General, Alltech, Lloyds Bank, Microsoft, US Steel, and Henkel."

Marjan Poljak joined Karanovic & Nikolic in 2009 as a Senior Associate after having spent over five years with another firm. He initially joined K&N's Corporate team, but, the firm reports, "shortly after [that he] started working with the IP team where he focused on IP related rights." According to K&N, "his highly entrepreneurial mind quickly led him to develop an entirely new practice. We applaud him for his outstanding ability to develop new business and for his ability to successfully lead and nurture a top team of professionals. Marjan is well known for his love of the aviation industry and, as such, was thrilled to advise JAT on its successful sale to Etihad. He was promoted to Partner in 2012."

Karanovic & Nikolic reports that "apart from his extensive involvement in transactional and general corporate work, Marjan is also specialized in different specific areas of law including IT, healthcare & pharmaceuticals, data protection and public procurement. [He] has advised clients such as Sanofi, Air Serbia, Pfizer, Herbalife, GE, Google, HP, Ericsson, Microsoft and others."

Darko Jovanovic joined Karanovic & Nikolic in 2004 directly out of law school and began working on various privatization projects that were taking place at the time, including "the privatization of banks in Serbia, the Montenegrin Telekom sale to Deutsche Telekom, [and the] RTB Bor and NIS privatization attempts." K&N reports that he was promoted to Associate in 2007, Senior Associate in 2008, and became both Partner and the head of the Banking and Finance team in early 2010.

According to K&N, "Darko is recognized for having proactively shaped the emerging trend of NPLs and PPPs in the market and has assisted in the realization of large-scale infrastructure projects in the region. Darko specializes in all aspects of banking and finance, including project finance, NPLs, restructuring and refinancing and derivatives trading. He has advised clients from various sectors and industries, most notably IFC, EBRD, EIB, Government of Serbia, the City of Belgrade, the Royal Group UAE, Air Serbia, SberBank, VTB, Bank of Moscow, Société Générale, JP Morgan, Merrill Lynch International and MidEuropa Partners."

The promotions of Lazic, Poljak, and Jovanovic follows last week's announcement that K&N Partner Rastko Petakovic has been elected firm Managing Partner, to take over from outgoing MP Dejan Nikolic. 

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