CROATIA Law and Practice Contributed by: Iva Basarić, Marija Gregorić and Matija Skender, Babic & Partners
Babic & Partners has been operational in Zagreb for over 30 years, providing tailor-made advice on a variety of legal issues to local businesses, and local insight to assist multinational corporate clients set up their investments and drive their growth in Croatia. The legal practice initially established by Boris Babić in 1994 grew over the years to become Babić & Part - ners, recognised today as the first port of call for cli -
ents seeking industry-specific Croatian legal advice in practice areas such as antitrust and competition, M&A, corporate and commercial, data privacy, and labour and employment. Babić & Partners is currently home to a team of eight attorneys, all of whom are fluent in English and some of whom have completed postgraduate studies or have worked in other Euro - pean countries and the USA.
Authors
Iva Basarić is a partner at Babić & Partners focusing on corporate/ commercial, M&A and antitrust/ competition matters. Iva started working as an associate at the firm in 2008 and became a partner in 2015.
Matija Skender is a senior associate at Babić & Partners and has been with the firm since starting his career in 2018. He graduated from the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law and is currently attending post-
She studied law at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law (2008), received her LLM degree from the University of San Francisco School of Law (2009), and has a postgraduate diploma in EU Competition Law from King’s College, London (2020). Iva is a member of the Croatian Bar Association and the International Bar Association (where she is involved in the work of Antitrust Section’s Cartels Working Group), and is the American Bar Association liaison to the Croatian Bar Association.
graduate interdisciplinary studies in intellectual property at the same university. Matija’s practice encompasses aspects of commercial, technology and intellectual property law. He also counsels market-leading technology companies on cutting- edge technology regulation issues, content, copyright and digital commerce. He is a member of the Croatian Bar Association.
Marija Gregorić has been a partner at Babić & Partners since 2006. Marija studied law at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law. Having more than 25 years’ experience, she regularly advises and represents
clients from various industries in M&A, employment, data privacy and related litigation matters, and has contributed to numerous publications on issues relating to her area of expertise. She is a member of the Croatian Bar Association and the International Bar Association, the European Employment Lawyers Association, and the European Association for Legal and Fiscal Studies (Association Européenne d’Etudes Juridiques et Fiscales). Marija was named employment lawyer of the year in 2025 by a major legal directory.
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