Zlatan Balta has joined Legal Partners, in cooperation with Deloitte Legal, as the leader of its legal practice in Bosnia & Herzegovina.

Doklestic Repic & Gajin has advised Beijing New Building Materials Plc on the transaction with the Coal Mine and Thermal Power Plant Ugljevik for the creation of a EUR 50 million gypsum board joint venture. China's Shihui Partners reportedly advised BNBM on the deal as well.

With 2022 being an election year for Bosnia, there is not a lot of market activity, according to BB Legal Partner Nenad Baros. There are crypto-related legislation updates on the horizon, however, and the market has settled down following the sale of Sberbank assets in the country to local banks.

Baros Bicakcic & Partners and Bojovic Draskovic Popovic & Partners have successfully represented Viaduct d.o.o. in an ICSID claim against Bosnia and Herzegovina.

CEE Legal Matters readers will likely be familiar with Patricia Gannon as one of the founders of Karanovic & Partners. Since her withdrawal from the firm (reported by CEE Legal Matters on September 21, 2020), Gannon ran her own "holistic strategic advisory business" (as reported on October 12, 2020) and, recently, she announced she is working on a new social media app for lawyers – Platforum 9. We caught up with her to learn more about her new project.

On April 5, 2022, leading lawyers from across all of CEE will be coming together for the Dealer's Choice Conference and Deals of the Years Awards Banquet. Leading up to the event, we spoke with Vladimir Rangeloff of Kambourov & Partners to learn what they are looking forward to the most.

On April 5, 2022, leading lawyers from across all of CEE will be coming together for the Dealer's Choice Conference and Deals of the Years Awards Banquet. Leading up to the event, we spoke with Silvije Cipcic-Bragadin of Cipcic-Bragadin Mesic and Associates to learn what they are looking forward to the most.

On April 5, 2022, leading lawyers from across all of CEE will be coming together for the Dealer's Choice Conference and Deals of the Years Awards Banquet. Leading up to the event, we spoke with Gabor Bebok of Pontes Budapest to learn what they are looking forward to the most.

On April 5, 2022, leading lawyers from across all of CEE will be coming together for the Dealer's Choice Conference and Deals of the Years Awards Banquet. Leading up to the event, we spoke with Oana Ijdelea of Ijdelea & Associates to learn what they are looking forward to the most.

Karanovic & Partners has advised Abris Capital Partners and Patent Co. founders Radivoje Perovic and Miodrag Perovic on the sale of Patent Co. to RWA Raiffeisen Ware Austria. JPM Jankovic Popovic Mitic advised Patent Co.'s founders as well. Wolf Theiss advised RWA.

According to Ibrahimovic & Co Managing Partner Adi Ibrahimovic, “the EU’s engagement with Bosnia and Herzegovina has gone through sporadic periods of intensifying cooperation and uncertain situations,” leading Dimitrijevic & Partners Partner Davorin Marinkovic to summarize the current status as: “frankly speaking, the public perception is that nobody actually knows.”

According to the applicable legislation in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH), domains are not considered as intellectual property rights (IP). The owner of the national domain .ba is the state of BH and any legal or natural person is considered a user of the registered domains, for as long as the yearly maintenance fees are paid regularly.

Sajic has advised both Pavgord Foca as the seller and Kutjevo Banja Luka as the buyer on a EUR 2.9 million real estate transaction in Bosnia & Herzegovina.

Bosnia & Herzegovina remains open for business, despite political instability – caused by increasing secessionist tendencies – and slowing reforms, according to DMB Legal Managing Partner Dina Durakovic.

The Milosevic Law Firm has successfully represented Alumina before the Higher Commercial Court in Banja Luka in a property-related dispute with Pavgord and Ukio Bank.

Sajic has successfully represented the interests of Bitminer Factory against UniCredit Bank before the court of first instance.

Schoenherr has advised the borrower HE Dabar on a EUR 190 million loan facility granted by the Export-Import Bank of China for the development of the 160-megawatt Dabar hydropower plant. Milbank reportedly advised CEXIM Bank on the deal.

Bosnia & Herzegovina is going through the gravest political crisis since the end of the war in 1995, according to Prebanic & Jusufbasic-Goloman Partner Arela Jusufbasic-Goloman, but it is registering a stable financial sector and an increase M&A activity.