{"id":5161,"date":"2016-08-08T11:41:59","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T11:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zslawv2.52improvements.com\/competition-clearances-secured-for-petrol-d-d-ljubljana-in-serbia-montenegro-and-macedonia\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T07:57:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T07:57:40","slug":"competition-clearances-secured-for-petrol-d-d-ljubljana-in-serbia-montenegro-and-macedonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zslaw.rs\/sr\/competition-clearances-secured-for-petrol-d-d-ljubljana-in-serbia-montenegro-and-macedonia\/","title":{"rendered":"Competition clearances secured for Petrol d.d. Ljubljana in Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Roboto; font-style: normal; font-weight: 300; font-size: 20px;\"> \u017divkovi\u0107 Samard\u017ei\u0107, a leading independent law firm in Serbia, has successfully secured competition clearances for its client, Petrol d.d. Ljubljana, the top Slovenian energy company and a key player in Southeast Europe\u2019s energy sector. This pertains to Petrol&#8217;s acquisition of control over Slovenian natural gas trader Geoplin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Roboto; font-style: normal; font-weight: 300; font-size: 20px;\">Petrol recently signed a share swap agreement with the Republic of Slovenia, represented by Slovene Sovereign Holding, making Petrol the majority owner of Geoplin, while Slovenia will retain a 25% stake. Geoplin\u2019s pipeline infrastructure, Plinovodi, will remain majority-owned by Slovenia. The transaction will proceed once all suspensive conditions are met, following government approval in October.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Roboto; font-style: normal; font-weight: 300; font-size: 20px;\">The deal was cleared by the competition authorities in Serbia, Montenegro, and North Macedonia. The \u017divkovi\u0107 Samard\u017ei\u0107 team, consisting of partner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zslaw.rs\/sr\/portfolio\/slobodan-kremenjak\/\">\u0421\u043b\u043e\u0431\u043e\u0434\u0430\u043d \u041a\u0440\u0435\u043c\u0435\u045a\u0430\u043a<\/a> and other attorneys from \u017divkovi\u0107 Samard\u017ei\u0107, represented Petrol in Serbia and Montenegro, while Macedonian law firm Bona Fide, with attorneys Jasmina Brezovska and Aleksandar K\u010dev, handled the clearance in Macedonia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Roboto; font-style: normal; font-weight: 300; font-size: 20px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zslaw.rs\/sr\/portfolio\/slobodan-kremenjak\/\">\u0421\u043b\u043e\u0431\u043e\u0434\u0430\u043d \u041a\u0440\u0435\u043c\u0435\u045a\u0430\u043a<\/a> emphasized that this success highlights \u017divkovi\u0107 Samard\u017ei\u0107\u2019s ability to operate as a regional hub, offering comprehensive legal services across the broader Southeast European market.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u017divkovi\u0107 Samard\u017ei\u0107, a leading independent law firm in Serbia, has successfully secured competition clearances for its client, Petrol d.d. Ljubljana, the top Slovenian energy company and a key player in&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":90031,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[81,109,111],"class_list":["post-5161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-deals-and-cases","tag-slobodan-kremenjak","tag-competition","tag-igor-zivkovski"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zslaw.rs\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zslaw.rs\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zslaw.rs\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zslaw.rs\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zslaw.rs\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zslaw.rs\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90365,"href":"https:\/\/www.zslaw.rs\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5161\/revisions\/90365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zslaw.rs\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zslaw.rs\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zslaw.rs\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zslaw.rs\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}