Practice Expertise

  • Bank M&As
  • Banking & Finance
  • Capital Markets & Financial Instruments
  • Corporate & Commercial

Areas of Practice

  • Bank M&As
  • Banking & Finance
  • Capital Markets & Financial Instruments
  • Corporate & Commercial
  • Financial Regulation
  • General Lending & Project Finance
  • Infrastructure & Transport
  • Infrastructure Finance & Public Private ...
  • Insurance
  • Media & Telecom
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • NPL Portfolio Services
  • Real Estate
  • Real Estate Finance
  • Restructuring & Distressed Transactions
  • Water & Waste Management
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Profile

Darko Jovanovic is a Senior Partner and the head of the Banking & Finance Practice Group. He specialises in infrastructure and energy financing, construction projects and the development of PPPs, and he is recognised by international legal directories as the leading banking & finance lawyer in the country. He is recognised as having proactively shaped the emerging trend of PPPs in the market and has assisted in the realisation of landmark high-scale projects in areas of energy and infrastructure. Having more than 15 years of experience, Darko regularly handles complex matters for major borrowers, investment funds and international financial institutions, covering all aspects of banking and finance, including NPLs, project and leveraged finance, banking M&As, restructurings, capital markets and insurance issues. He currently holds the Managing Partner position in Karanovic & Partners.

Bar Admissions
Belgrade Bar Association (2007)

Education
University of Belgrade, Faculty of Law (2004), LL.B.

Areas of Practice

  • Bank M&As
  • Banking & Finance
  • Capital Markets & Financial Instruments
  • Corporate & Commercial
  • Financial Regulation
  • General Lending & Project Finance
  • Infrastructure & Transport
  • Infrastructure Finance & Public Private Partnerships
  • Insurance
  • Media & Telecom
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • NPL Portfolio Services
  • Real Estate
  • Real Estate Finance
  • Restructuring & Distressed Transactions
  • Water & Waste Management

Professional Career

Significant Accomplishments
Rated as Band 1 in Chambers & Partners for Banking & Finance in Serbia in 2023.
Also ranked as "Market Leader" for Banking and Project Finance by IFLR 1000, and positioned in "Hall of Fame" for Banking and finance by Legal 500 in 2023.

Professional Associations
  • International Bar Association


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