Finance Monthly Deal Maker Awards 2016 Edition

FINANCE MONTHLY DEAL MAKER AWARDS 2016 www.finance-monthly.com 61 Zelezara Smederevo Privatization Chosen for his involvement in the following transaction: MLADJAN MARJANOVIC Senior Partner at Marjanovic Law WINNER: CONTACT Marjanovic Law, Kraljice Natalije 11, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia Mobile: +381 60 59 44 002 Office: +381 11 40 44 000 E-mail: mladjan.marjanovic@marjanovic.law ABOUT MLADJAN MARJANOVIC Mladjan Marjanovic has more than 9 years of experience in legal consulting for various foreign and domestic clients. Throughout his career he has worked in many industry sectors including real estate, pharmaceuticals, media, commercial and professional services, mining and metals. Prior to founding Marjanovic Law office Mladjan worked in other well established law offices in Serbia. His initial experience was acquired in Cyprus where he worked for international consulting company. Mladjan’s professional experiences across various practices enable him toprovide comprehensive legal services that are grounded in actual business practice handling the most complex and demanding legal issues and projects. He has been involved in different M&A, privatization, restructuring and other legal projects for various foreign clients in Serbia and Montenegro and is experienced with performing different legal due diligence projects, negotiation in transactions, legal disputes and other legal consultancy engagements for various foreign and domestic investors. FIRM PROFILE Marjanovic Law gathers ambitious and perspective team of young attorneys at law which is adorned by extraordinary individual qualities as well as knowledge and experience. Our team is ready to focus all of its’ knowledge, skills and experience in order to provide the best answer to clients’ demand in every moment. We have gained our experience through themost challenging engagements that legal profession can offer. Beside the quality services, we are recognized on the market by the wide spectrum of our clients both domestic and multinational, either in public or private sector. Our attorneys at law are specialized in providing legal counseling in the area of corporate, labor law, competition law, intellectual property law, M&A, drafting all types of contracts, legal representation of business entities in all kinds of judicial, arbitration and other proceedings and many other areas in the field of modern law practice. We continuously invest in training and professional development of all members of our team and support innovative ideas with the aim of continuous improvement of our capabilities and knowledge in order to keep pace with our clients’ needs and challenges of modern business. We believe that creating a good relationship with a client as well as understanding every aspect of individual engagement is equally important as service we provide. Therefore we are trying to meet our clients’ needs in a comprehensive and thorough way, in the shortest period of time. Marjanovic Law as associated law firm of KPMG Serbia acted as a lead transaction legal counsel of the Government of Republic of Serbia in two years long privatization procedure of Zelezara Smederevo. During said two years KPMG Serbia led by Mr. Boris Milosevic and Marjanovic Law team led by Mr. Mladjan Marjanovic firstly represented the Government of Republic of Serbia during the strategic partnership agreement negotiations with US steel producer Esmark Inc., then in the negotiations with HPK Engineering B.V. when the said company was appointed to run the steel mill until publishing new privatization and, finally, during the negotiations of the asset sales and purchase agreement with HeSteel China. This time we would like to emphasize that the privatization was finalized successfully on June 30, 2016 by closing of the deal with HeSteel China, one of the largest steel producers in the World. The privatization of Zelezara Smederevo was performed through the asset deal as a privatization model. The purchase price achieved within the public tender procedure was EUR 46 million and the buyer promised to invest over EUR 300 million within the next five years period. TRANSACTION REPORT Education - Faculty of Law, the University of Belgrade Serbia - Bar Exam, the Ministry of Justice, Serbia - IBFD International Tax Academy, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Practices - M&A - Due Diligence - Restructurings - Privatizations - Private Equity - Business Compliance - Real Estate - Labour Law - Legal Disputes