Iva Basaric
Iva Basarić is a Co-chair of Babić & Partners’ competition/antitrust practice and a Co-chair of Babić & Partners’ Corporate and M&A practice. She holds an LLM from the University of San Francisco School of Law, and Postgraduate Diploma in EU Competition Law from King’s College London.
Iva’s contentious experience in competition practice includes advising and representing clients on a broad spectrum of issues, including merger control, cartel investigations and leniency, competition compliance programs, abuse proceedings and distribution and licensing arrangements across national and multinational industries. She has led several internal compliance training programs for clients.
As part of her corporate and M&A area, she routinely advises clients on a wide spectrum of corporate law issues — from day-to-day corporate maintenance to complex domestic and cross-border transactions (both on sell and buy-side), providing full range of services, from transaction structuring and negotiation to implementation, as well as post-acquisition integration, spin-offs, mergers and corporate restructurings.
She has authored a number of articles for a variety of external legal publications, and is also a frequent speaker and guest panellist at conferences on competition, corporate law and real estate issues and developments, including speaker engagements at the International Bar Association’s conferences.
Marija Gregorić
Marija Gregorić is the Chair of Babić & Partners’ Employment practice and a Co-Chair of the Firm’s Corporate and M&A practice. For more than 20 years she has advised international clients from wide spectrum of sectors, including automotive, consumer goods & retail, energy & resources, pharmaceutical, private equity, technology & telecommunications, within two main areas of law, one being employment and the other corporate law.
As part of her employment practice, she regularly advises multinational corporates on all of their employment needs, from day-to-day human resources requirements, including recruitment and terminations, employment benefits, to critical global business change projects, collective redundancies and labour litigation, whistleblowing and data privacy compliance, employee mobility and business immigration, workplace investigations and workforce restructuring.
She is equally at home in structuring, negotiating and implementing a variety of mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings, joint ventures and private equity transactions. She represented a number of prominent multinational companies (as buyers or sellers) in sophisticated domestic and cross-border transactions.
Marija frequently speaks at seminars and conferences for attorneys and provides in-house trainings. She has published numerous articles in various legal magazines and publications including Thomson Reuters, Law Business Research, DataGuidance, CEE Legal Matters, IBA newsletter, and more.
The Firm
Babić & Partners is a leading Croatian law widely recognized as a market leader in corporate, M&A, commercial, employment and competition/antitrust matters. The firm routinely advises multinational corporates, including over eighty Fortune 500 and Global 500 companies, on full-range of their most pressing legal issues in Croatia. For almost 30 years, the firm has built a reputation for excellence of advice and commitment to find innovative, sound and tailor-made legal solutions. Lawyers at Babić & Partners are cross-sectoral specialists, advising clients from wide range of industries including consumer goods & retail, energy & resources, financial services, hotel & leisure, life sciences, private equity, technology & telecommunications. The firm frequently works with major international law firms, including leading law firms in Europe and globally.
Main practice areas:
Antitrust & Competition: For a quarter of century Babić & Partners has been recognized as the first port of call for clients seeking competition law advice in Croatia. The firm’s competition department is experienced in advising and representing clients on merger control, cartel and abuse of dominance, down raids, antitrust disputes, compliance, training and counselling. The firm’s excellence in antitrust arena is underscored by its track record, its organization of numerous international competition law conferences in Croatia and broad, as well as numerous influential publications on competition topics, including those published by Kluwer Law International and Thomson Reuters.
Banking & Finance: In the banking and finance area, Babić & Partners is a top boutique firm to whom clients trust to provide a practical, business-oriented advice and achieve their objectives. Our lawyers have sophisticated understanding of expectations and requirements of both sides to a financing transaction and provide counsel tailored to each client’s needs.
Corporate and Commercial: Babić & Partners’ corporate and commercial practice is at the heart of the firm. For almost 30 years, the firm advises on a broad range of corporate matters, including private M&A, private equity, joint ventures and commercial partnerships, disposals and corporate restructurings. The firm delivers integrated services which apply to M&A transactions, working in multi-disciplinary teams of lawyers.
Data Protection & Cybersecurity: Forward thinking and commercial in the approach Babić & Partners provides holistic advice on data, ranging from compliance, international data transfers, through use of cookies, cyber breach and enforcement to competition concerns. Staying at the forefront of new developments, the firm’s data and tech practice is delivering pragmatic and implementable data and tech law advice to help clients navigate complex landscape of compliance and keep the pace with this fast changing and multi-layer environment.
Employment: Babić & Partners is a market leader in employment law for almost three decades. The firm’s capabilities in the employment arena have been consistently highly-ranked in legal directories and trade publications. The firm’s employment department delivers discreet legal advice and pragmatic solutions to multinational clients on full range of employment issues, including cross-border transactions, employment disputes, hiring and firing, labour relations, remuneration and incentives, whistleblowing, workplace investigations and workforce restructuring.
