Litigation & Arbitration


Albania

  • represented in litigation
    • Vodafone Albania API,
    • Coca Cola,
    • EuroGet,
    • British American Tobacco,
    • Global Petroleum,
    • Alpha Bank,
    • HBC,
    • Commercial Bank of Greece,
    • International Commercial Bank,
    • Albtelecom.
  • established precedents at the Albanian Supreme Court
    in establishing jurisdiction when both parties were foreign legal entities,
    in recognizing and enforcing foreign court judgments.

Bulgaria

  • represented a major foreign bank in litigation against a private Bulgarian bank – the claim exceeded EUR 4 million,
  • advised one of the largest multinational companies investing in Bulgaria in patent infringement proceedings,
  • successfully defended the rights and interests of the American investor Home Dynamix in the largest Bulgarian carpet maker Decotex AD - a landmark case in Bulgaria,
  • represented over 40 corporate clients in solving their labour disputes,
  • assisted a foreign bank in litigation against a local company.

Croatia

  • DTB represented Italian based company in one of the biggest, high- end value construction arbitration
  • DTB represented Daimler in the product liability case;
  • Panasonic Eastern Europe Company in a pursuing of counterfeiter of mobile phones;
  • Lockheed Martin in dispute resolution with Croatian Government;
  • Deutsche Telekom and the Republic of Croatia in the arbitration concerning the national telecom.

R. Macedonia

  • established litigation practice in civil and criminal cases,
  • defended more than 1,000 criminal cases,
  • Nikola Polenak is appointed a judge in the Permanent Court of Arbitration in Hague.

Romania

  • advise on commercial, tax, customs duties, and real estate litigation and arbitration,
  • acted for major banks in litigation regarding loan recovery, security and custody matters,
  • specialise increasingly in labour litigation,
  • represent clients in dispute resolutions with various institutions such as
  • the Romanian Ministry of Finance,
  • Romanian National Bank,
  • General Customs Authority.
  • represented a domestic client in two arbitrations under ICC rules in Zurich.

Serbia

  • UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules:Representing Raiffeisen Investment in a commercial dispute against Republika Srpska and various public bodies
  • ICC Arbitration:Serbian-law advice to Freshfields representing the consortium Alpine-Porr in dispute against the Republic of Serbia
  • UK fund:representation in a dispute related to the sale of several real estate projects in Montenegro
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