Balša Stevanović

Attorney at Law

Contact

Tel. +381 11 3285 175

Mob. +381 60 5035 025

Fax. +381 11 3285 198

balsa.stevanovic@tsg.rs

Belgrade Office

Carice Milice 3, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia

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Expertise and Languages

Commercial Law, Corporate Law, M&A, Antitrust, Competition & Trade, Data Protection Law & IT Security Law, Public Procurement, Media, Conflict of Laws

ENGLISH, FRENCH, SERBIAN

Education and Professional Career

2022

LEADER Project Serbia 2022, participant in a business programme organised by the Ivey Business School, University of Western Ontario, Canada 
2021

Law Office TSG Lawyers Belgrade

  • Bar Exam in the Republic of Serbia (4 honourable mentions)
2018-2020
  • Graduated from a two-year master programme in International Law at The Graduate Institute Geneva – IHEID. Full scholarship holder
  • Participated in a one-semester exchange LLM program in American Law at the Boston University School of Law
  • Associate in the area of International Investment Law at a law office in Geneva
  • Associate in the pro bono Legal Service Project in Boston, the main goal of which was coordination of the Project Citizenship, for which he received an award from the University of Law in Boston
2019

Master studies at the University of Law in Belgrade (LL.M.)
2018

Graduated from the University of London International Programme, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) – International Relations
2017
  • Graduated at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law with honors (LL.B.)
  • Team member and speaker of the University of Belgrade team at the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, Washington D.C., USA as well as at the Jessup Friendly rounds, Budapest, Hungary
  • University Johns Hopkins and University of Bologna Summer School „EU and legal reform“, Igalo, Montenegro
  • Legal trainee at Law Office TSG Lawyers Belgrade
2016
  • Summer School of the European University Viadrina „European system of human rights protection“, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany (DAAD scholarship received)
  • Advanced cource in  „Theory and practice of legal reasoning“, Serbian society for legal and social philosophy 
2015
  • Diplomatic intern; internship at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Permanent Mission of the Republic of Serbia to the United Nations, New York, USA 
  • Youth Delegate of Serbia at the UNESCO Youth Forum and preparatory meetings, in Paris and Brussels
  • Team member and speaker of the University of Belgrade team at the anti – discrimination moot court competition organized by the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality of the Republic of Serbia

Balša Stevanović’s practice focuses on corporate law, commercial law, alternative dispute resolution (ADR), energy law, competition law, regulatory law and private international law. He also researches and writes in the field of transnational litigation, international commercial arbitration, negotiation and legal theory.

He graduated from the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade (LLB) and from the Faculty of International Relations, University of London (BSc) – London School of Economics (LSE). With a scholarship from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva, Switzerland, he completed a two-year Master of International Law (MA), during which he spent an exchange semester in the United States at the LLM in American Law programme at the University of Boston School of Law. He is also completing a Master of Laws (LLM) at the Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade.

He completed a diplomatic internship in New York at the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Serbia to the United Nations. During his studies, he was a member and associate of the United Nations Association of Serbia. He was a member of the University of Belgrade team at the prestigious Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition. As a scholarship holder of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), he attended a summer school on the European human rights system at the European University Viadrina and the Johns Hopkins University and partners to participate in a summer programme dedicated to the European Union and legal reform.

During his Master’s studies in Switzerland, he worked as an intern in the field of international investment law at a law firm in Geneva, while in Boston he worked as part of the pro bono legal services project organised by Project Citizenship, for which he received an award from the University of Boston Law School.

Publications

International Commercial Courts as New Actors in Adjudication Business: Collaborators or Competitors?
(Pravo i privreda, No 1/2021, 2021)

The Role of Culture in International Business Negotiations
(BRANIČ – Journal for Legal Theory and Practice of the Bar Association of Serbia, No 5/2020, published: 2020)

Transjudicial communication as a method in international arbitration: emphasis on Switzerland and Serbia
(Master’s thesis – Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, 2020)

Presentation of a book by Professor dr. Miodrag Jovanovic “Nature of the international law”
(BRANIČ – Journal for Legal Theory and Practice of the Bar Association of Serbia, No. 1/2020, 2020)

Koskenniemi’s theory of International Law
(Master’s thesis – Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade, 2019)

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