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Radivoje Petrikić

Partner
Managing Partner at CMS Belgrade

CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz
Rechtsanwälte GmbH
Gauermanngasse 2
1010 Vienna
Austria
Petrikić & Partneri AOD
in cooperation with CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz
Krunska 73
11000 Belgrade
Serbia
Languages Serbian, Croatian, English, German
Corporate/M&A

Radivoje Petrikić is a Corporate/M&A and FDI lawyer. As a leading expert in Energy Law, Competition Law & EU, Corporate Law, commercial law and finance and project finance, he has more than 20 years of experience in large-scale commercial and M&A transactions and development projects across the CEE region. He has a deep understanding of all corporate and financial law issues facing companies operating in transitional markets. He is also an experienced advisor to regulators in these markets.
Radivoje Petrikić is one of Serbia’s leading M&A lawyers and leads a team that has advised on many landmark corporate and commercial law cases and privatisations across a wide range of industries over the past 15 years. He was retained by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development as lead legal advisor on the rewriting of Serbia’s corporate law and PPP legislation.
He is a partner at CMS in Vienna and has been the managing partner of the Serbian CMS office in Belgrade since its establishment in 2000. He is also Managing Partner in Podgorica, Montenegro, and coordinator of the firms in Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
 

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"Radivoje Petrikić supports us in every step of the process and with his experience in similar transactions he makes things clear and transparent.""

Chambers Global, 2023

"He understands strategically important issues."

Chambers Global, 2023

"It is great to work with Radivoje Petrikić."

Chambers Global, 2023

Memberships & Roles

  • Austrian Bar Association
  • Serbian Bar Association
  • Vienna Law Society (WJG)
  • Udruženje pravnika u privredi Srbije (Association of Lawyers in Business)
  • Serbian Association for Business Law
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Awards & Rankings

  • Radivoje Petrikić is consistently named as a leading lawyer in Corporate M&A Projects, including in Legal 500 and Chambers Global, Chambers Europe and IFLR1000.
  • The German business newspaper Handelsblatt ranks Petrikić among the best lawyers in the legal field of corporate law (Best Lawyers Ranking 2020).
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Education

  • 2000 – Dr. iur., Law, University of Belgrade
  • 1998 – Dr. iur., Law, University of Vienna
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Competition & EU

Radivoje Petrikić is a Competition & EU lawyer and a leading expert in Energy Law and Corporate Law/M&A. Together with his team, he advises large companies with a market presence in Serbia etc. on compliance and merger control issues. He is admitted to the bar in both Austria and Serbia and has acted as lead negotiator in many cross-border transactions involving complex antitrust issues as well as numerous merger applications.
Petrikić advises domestic and international companies on competition directives and their harmonisation with EU competition law. His successful competition law practice has resulted in a growing number of merger control mandates and assignments to organise antitrust seminars for clients seeking to respond to changes in relevant Serbian legislation.
 

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"Radivoje Petrikić supports us in every step of the process and with his experience in similar transactions he makes things clear and transparent.""

Chambers Global, 2023

"He understands strategically important issues."

Chambers Global, 2023

"It is great to work with Radivoje Petrikić."

Chambers Global, 2023

Memberships & Roles

  • Austrian Bar Association
  • Serbian Bar Association
  • Vienna Law Society (WJG)
  • Udruženje pravnika u privredi Srbije (Association of Lawyers in Business)
  • Serbian Association for Business Law
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Awards & Rankings

  • Radivoje Petrikić is consistently named as a leading lawyer in Corporate M&A Projects, including in Legal 500 and Chambers Global, Chambers Europe and IFLR1000.
  • The German business newspaper Handelsblatt ranks Petrikić among the best lawyers in the legal field of corporate law (Best Lawyers Ranking 2020).
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Education

  • 2000 – Dr. iur., Law, University of Belgrade
  • 1998 – Dr. iur., Law, University of Vienna
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Energy & Climate Change

Radivoje Petrikić is an Energy lawyer and leading expert in Corporate/M&A and Competition & EU law. Petrikić has built a strong team in Serbia, with an excellent track record in large energy and infrastructure projects executed across various jurisdictions. He provides legal advice to well-known clients and handles public tenders, acquisitions and regulatory matters. He is particularly active in renewable energy, infrastructure projects, oil and gas and finance.
Petrikić worked as a consultant for an energy giant on the implementation of an energy agreement between Serbia and Russia and was appointed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to implement its energy efficiency programme in the Western Balkans.

 

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"Radivoje Petrikić supports us in every step of the process and with his experience in similar transactions he makes things clear and transparent.""

Chambers Global, 2023

"He understands strategically important issues."

Chambers Global, 2023

"It is great to work with Radivoje Petrikić."

Chambers Global, 2023

Memberships & Roles

  • Austrian Bar Association
  • Serbian Bar Association
  • Vienna Law Society (WJG)
  • Udruženje pravnika u privredi Srbije (Association of Lawyers in Business)
  • Serbian Association for Business Law
more less

Awards & Rankings

  • Radivoje Petrikić is consistently named as a leading lawyer in Corporate M&A Projects, including in Legal 500 and Chambers Global, Chambers Europe and IFLR1000.
  • The German business newspaper Handelsblatt ranks Petrikić among the best lawyers in the legal field of corporate law (Best Lawyers Ranking 2020).
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Education

  • 2000 – Dr. iur., Law, University of Belgrade
  • 1998 – Dr. iur., Law, University of Vienna
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Emerging Europe M&A Report 2023/2024
Despite geopolitical tensions, fears of recession and strong inflationary pressures across the EU, as well as the fiscal tightening needed to contain them, M&A in the CEE region has remained reasonably buoyant. Findings from the CMS Emer­ging Europe M&A 2023/24 report, published in cooperation with EMIS, demonstrate the resilience of the Emerging Europe deals market as activity holds firm against a backdrop of geopolitical tensions and strong inflationary pressures. Welcome to the 2023/24 edition of the Emerging Europe report.
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Emerging Europe M&A Report 2022/2023
The year 2022 started with various challenges, including rising inflation and energy prices. Then the Russian invasion of Ukraine added yet another one. Nonetheless, the M&A market in emerging European countries proved to be extremely resilient. The region saw M&A activity maintain a steady pace, though deal values were notably lower. Also, variations could be observed across territories and sectors. While 2022 brought a unique set of challenges, dealmaking largely compared favourably to pre-pandemic levels. Welcome to the 2022/23 edition of the Emerging Europe report.
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Emerging Europe M&A Report 2021/2022
Following global trends, the M&A market in emerging Europe surged in 2021— more money was spent on acquisitions and investments than in any of the previous seven years. After a relatively poor showing in 2020, transaction volume also bounced back to pre-pandemic levels. Not only did direct acquisitions and investments fare well, but stock market listings also reached unprecedented levels. Has the M&A market in emerging Europe scaled new heights?Welcome to the 2021/22 edition of the Emerging Europe report.
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Emerging Europe M&A Report 2020/2021
We are delighted to announce that the latest edition of the CMS and EMIS ‘Emerging Europe M&A Report’ is now available. The report offers a high-level analysis of M&A activity in emerging Europe...
21/01/2021
Emerging Europe M&A Report 2020/2021
In 2020 we counted 1,705 deals with a total value of EUR 60,80bn in emerging Europe, respective year-on-year decreases of 12.9% and 16%. It will not come as a surprise that this is the lowest number of deals for the region in the ten editions of this report that we have published. Then again, after a year characterised by the COVID-19 pandemic, in which deals were protracted, postponed or simply abandoned, it is probably not as bad as many of us may have imagined. While deal numbers in Q4 remained subdued, we experienced the highest deal value for the final quarter of the year since 2016. After many years of decline, in recent years the annual dealflow in emerging Europe had started to steadily settle around the 2,000 mark. In last year’s report, we predicted that the region would maintain its attractiveness to investors and we had great confidence in the deal pipeline. We felt that uncertainties around China-US trade relations, Brexit and the US presidential elections would have little impact on the region’s dealflow. As the year showed, global political uncertainties are no competition for a pandemic when it comes to slowing down M&A activity. However, deals did continue and compared to other global emerging markets, such as Emerging Asia and Latin America, the region performed quite well. The Emerging Europe M&A Report takes a closer look at the trends and data on a coun­try-by-coun­try and on a sector basis. The impact of the economic slowdown was relatively evenly spread across the region, but there are always some countries that buck the trend. Poland experienced a year-on-year increase in deal volume while witnessing the highest deal value compared to 2019. South-eastern Europe was quite stable overall with markets such as Romania, Bulgaria and Croatia all seeing only modest drops in deal volumes. From the usual top performers, Czech Republic was probably the hardest hit with a 24,7% decrease in transactions; however, these are still better numbers than the country posted in 2012 in the slipstream of the financial crisis and as reported in the CMS Emerging Europe M&A Report at the time.A great deal has been written about winners and losers in terms of sectors, rather than focusing on some of these unforeseen de­vel­op­ments, the articles in the report focus on some of the trends that had set in before the pandemic hit. In fact, some of these developments were accelerated by it: the advance of Telecoms & IT in terms of deal volume—taking the top spot from Real Estate & Con­struc­tion—and con­tin­ued investment in renewable energy, driven by climate goals, the demand of clean energy by technology giants, and the overall drive for sustainability. Two articles provide a more detailed look into how specific companies are faring, a close-up on the Croatian con­glom­er­ate Forten­ova and where it stands two years after its restructuring, and a fireside chat with Tereza Ber, general counsel at Zentiva, about the company’s takeover of the CEE business of Alvogen. We also take a look at the region’s IPO activity. The Warsaw-listing of Allegro is a testimony not only to the success of ecommerce in these new times, but also to the increased interest in an exit through the stock exchange. After seeing only 14 IPOs in 2019, this rebounded to 26 in 2020. Through dual-track sales processes sellers want to make the most of the competition between a trade sale and IPO, and with new records set on stock exchanges throughout the world towards the end of 2020, it will likely remain an attractive prospect. One development that we noted in 2019 did reverse last year. While cross-border investment into the region decreased by 34.3%, domestic deal activity picked up by 18.4%, reaching a total of 764 and 941 transactions re­spect­ively. Over­all, investors based closer to the region remained more active than those further away, and in particular investors from the US, China and Japan made fewer acquisitions in emerging Europe. We look at what keeps attracting western European investors to the region. The restrictions on our freedom forced us to live differently: we work from home, shop online and meet friends virtually. Although a vaccine may soon allow us to return to “normal”, the last year is likely to have a lasting impact on our behaviour. As businesses that benefit from this new economy grow, so does interest from investors. On the flip side, those companies that have had to count their losses may become interesting targets too. While some companies will see the need for a capital injection to survive, others will be looking for investment to help it capitalise on their success. 
03/07/2020
The travel warning for the Western Balkans and the problems it causes:...
A travel warning of the highest level has been in force for the Western Balkans since yesterday. Expert Radivoje Petrikić takes a closer look at what this means in the Austrian radio show Mit­tag­s­journ­al...
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CEE Merger Clearance Matrix
Cross border M&A transactions that require merger control approvals in several jurisdictions have become commonplace. To reduce time delays and keep costs down, it is essential to identify at the early...