The students of the Law School in Kragujevac are the winners of the Big Deal competition. The purpose of this project is transfer of practical knowledge from the field of the corporate law to the students of the Law Schools in Serbia, through simulation of M&A transactions.
This year, in the 2014 Big Deal competition, the Kragujevac Law School team was better than their colleagues from Novi Sad and Belgrade
The students of the Law School in Kragujevac are the winners of the Big Deal competition. The purpose of this project is transfer of practical knowledge from the field of the corporate law to the students of the Law Schools in Serbia, through simulation of M&A transactions (merger/acquisition of companies). The best students of the Law Schools in Belgrade, Novi Sad and Kragujevac have been given the opportunity to take part in the 2014 Big Deal competition, organized by the Law Office JPM Jankovic Popovic Mitic every year – this year for the third time.
This year’s Big Deal project, apart from the top quality contestants and the great teams of the participating Law Schools, will also be remembered as the last one which has gathered the local LAW Schools, the next one, scheduled for 2015 will be of regional type.
The formal ceremony of giving the diplomas to the participants, was followed by the panel discussion on the “Experiences from M&A transactions in Serbia and the Region” with the following panelists:
– Mr. Nenad Popovic , Senior Partner at the Law Office JPM Jankovic Popovic Mitic, the expert for M&A transactions,
– Mr. Boris Savoric , Senior Partner at the Law Office Savoric & Partneri from Zagreb.
– Mr. Ales Rojs, Senior Partner at the Law Office Rojs, Peljhan, Prelesnik & Partners from Ljubljana.
The panelists discussed their very rich experiences in the M&A transactions reaching beyond the national environments and covering several national jurisdictions.
All the students, participants of the Big Deal competition, have concluded that this year’s Big Deal has provided them with a great deal of the new, high quality knowledge, specific view to the legal practice and the clear picture of what lies ahead following completion of their studies.