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On Friday 31 May 2019, Tele2 AB Sweden agreed to sell its Croatian business to United Group for an enterprise value of EUR 220 million. Croatian business is one out of 3 telecom providers in Croatia with 897,000 subscribers.

We are happy to announce that DTB has been shortlisted as one of the three finalists for 2018 Deal of the Year in Croatia, organized by the renowned CEE Legal Matters magazine.

DTB’s Intellectual Property team has once again been ranked as Recommended by Managing Intellectual Property IP STARS.

AR Packaging Group AB has acquired all outstanding shares in Istragrafika, d.d., a producer of high quality folding carton products for the tobacco, food and consumer goods segments.

On 31 October 2018 INA and Prvo plinarsko društvo (PPD) as investors entered, with the Republic of Croatia, into the Capital Increase Agreement regarding Petrokemija, the largest regional fertilizer manufacturer listed on Zagreb Stock Exchange.

Divjak, Topić & Bahtijarević Law Firm has won the first ever CEE Legal Matters CEE Deal of the Year Award for Croatia at the Deal of the Year Awards Banquet in Prague on June 7 for its work on Arriva’s acquisition of Autotrans.
Winners were selected from all deals signed in the 2017 calendar year, and were based on deal complexity, market (and regional) significance, and innovation.
Final nominees were selected by a first panel of highly-regarded private practitioners in Croatia and a second, “Final Selection Committee,” of prominent legal experts from across Central and Eastern Europe. The awards were announced at the CEE Legal Matters Annual Banquet that concluded the international Dealer’s Choice law firm conference at the Czech National Bank in Prague.

DTB's competition and antitrust partner Mario Krka moderated a panel discussion Judicial Protection in Competition Cases within International Conference on the occasion of 20th anniversary of Croatian Competition Agency (20 years of Competition Enforcement in Croatia). The Conference took place on 15 November 2017 in Zagreb and featured high profile Croatian and international competition experts.

Arriva acquires 78.34% in Autotrans Group, thus becoming number one private bus operator in Croatia. Arriva has operated in Croatia since 2013, and the deal with Autotrans signals the company’s commitment to improving public transport services in Croatia and is part of Arriva’s continuing expansion strategy throughout Europe.
Arriva operates in 14 countries across Europe, employing around 60,000 people and delivering more than 2.2 billion passenger journeys every year.
After receiving green light from the Croatian Competition Agency for the concentration following which Arriva will have market share of 25-30 per cent, the deal was finalized this month.
This major acquisition transaction was fully structured and implemented by lawyers from Divjak, Topić & Bahtijarević Law Firm and included M&A and competition expertize.

Croatia Osiguranje, the largest and oldest insurance company in Croatia, concluded a deal with the French BNP Paribas Cardif Insurance to take over 100 % of its local unit, thus becoming the sole owner of BNP Paribas Cardif Insurance in Croatia. The signing took place on 24 May 2017 whereas the transaction is subject to final approval by the Croatian Financial Services Supervisory Agency (HANFA).

BNP Paribas Cardif Insurance was advised by combined teams of the international law firm Gide Loyrette Nouel and the Croatian law firm Divjak, Topić & Bahtijarević, led by senior partner Saša Divjak and senior associate Ema Menđušić Škugor.

DTB congratulates Croatian Post (HP) which has acquired 100 % ownership interest in MIPS, a regional leader in the segment of postal business automation system development, consulting and support, which has been

Zagreb Stock Exchange and Estonian start-up company Funderbeam set up a joint company Funderbeam South-East Europe which is to becom

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DTB is proud to congratulate its IP team for being ranked in WTR 1000 - The World’s Leading Trademark Professionals 2016.

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has officially confirmed its participation in the capital increase of Zagreb Stock Exchange (ZSE).

New to INTA’s committee structure, the Copyright Committee develops and advocates the Association’s policy regarding the impact of copyright law and enforcement on trademark rights.

A conference on Corporate governance in Croatia was held on 15 September 2015 in Zagreb.

In four rounds of recapitalization of the Port of Rijeka by public offering of new ordinary shares, a total of 7,500,000 new shares with the value as of HRK 300 million has been subscribed and paid for, as reported by Vedran Devčić, C

D-Resort Šibenik is one of the newest hotels of Doğuş Tourism Group, hotel group owned by Doğuş Group, one of the biggest conglomerates in Turkey.

The Zagreb Stock Exchange (ZSE) has signed an agreement to take over 100% of the Ljubljana Stock Exchange (LJSE) shares from the CEE Stock Exchange Group (CEESEG), following exclusive negotiations since late June 2015.

DTB's Employment team, lead by Saša Divjak, have proudly participated, on the invitation-only basis, in the World Bank's latest edition Women, Business and the Law 2014: Removing Restrictions to Enhance Gender Equality.

On 29 May the British Embassy Zagreb and UKTI Croatia, with support from Mr Conrad Bird, the Director of the GREAT Britain Campaign, who came to Croatia especially for the event, successfully launched the British Business Centre Croatia (BBC

"The City of Zagreb has so far built garages with its own funds , and this will be the first garage project of public-private partnership" said Mayor Milan Bandic during yesterday’s presentation of the public garage development in Klaićeva under a

The Croatian Government rendered three decisions which regulate tendering for the issuance of license for the exploration and exploitation of hydrocarbons in the Adriatic and tender publishing on April, 2.

Turkish leading conglomerate Dogus purchased majority stake in one of the premium luxury hotels in Croatia "Villa Dubrovnik" from Croatian Heruc Group.

The International Scientific and Expert Conference on the theme of “E communication and modern technologies in litigation proceedings” took place in Zagreb on 25 April 2014 in the organization of the Ministry of Justice and the Faculty of Law.

Doğuş Group, one of DTB's core clients, has recently been granted a €30 million loan for the refurbishment of Marina Dalmacija and Marina Borik, which have a key role in boosting nautical tourism along the coast of Croatia.

​The only state-owned provider of postal services, Croatian Post, issued EUR 52 M worth of bonds on 10 Oct 2014.

Make Their World a Better Place is a charity action recently organized by the Rotary klub Zagreb Gradec. The purpose of the action is to provide adequate living space to the youngest patients of the Special Hospital in Gornja Bistra.