Client says: “Jelena is very close to becoming the leading arbitration expert in the region, if she’s not there already. Personally, I would like to recommend her as a competent, efficient and very reliable lawyer – the kind of lawyer who sets her mind on something and gets it done.”
Jelena Bezarević Pajić Partner
legal service
dispute resolution, corporate/m&a
admitted to the bar
2008, Serbia
with schoenherr since
2007
education
Central European University, Budapest/Hungary (LL.M. in International Business Law 2007)
Asser College Europe, T.M.C. Asser Institute, The Hague/The Netherlands (Postgraduate course: International Trade Law including European Union Law, Law on World Trade Organization and International Commercial Arbitration, 2006)
University of Belgrade, Faculty of Law, Belgrade/Serbia (LL.B. 2005)
languages
Serbian, English
academic and other publications
- Global Arbitration Review: Commercial Arbitration, Serbian Chapter
- Mondaq Comparative Guide to International Arbitration 2019
- Guide to Arbitration Places (GAP), Chapter Serbia, Delos Dispute Resolution, 2018
- CEE Legal Matters - When Arbitration Meets Insolvency in Montenegro - Can They Coexist?
- International Bar Association, Arbitration Committee, Subcommittee for Recognition and Enforcement of Arbitral Awards – Country Reports on 'non-arbitrability' and 'public policy' as a defence to the recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards under the New York Convention:
- 'non-arbitrability' - Serbia and Montenegro
- 'public policy' - Serbia and Montenegro
- Kluwer Arbitration Blog - Security for Costs in Investment Arbitration: Who Should Bear the Risk of an Impecunious Claimant?
- International Bar Association Litigation Committee report on Multi-tiered Dispute Resolution Clauses 2015 - Montenegro
- International Comparative Legal Guide to Telecoms, Media and Internet Laws and Regulations 2014 - Montenegro
- Serbia & Montenegro: Enforcing Foreign Court Judgments and
- Arbitral Awards (eng | srb)
schoenherr publications
distinctions
Jelena is named Future Leader in Arbitration 2020, 2019 and 2018 by Who's Who Legal; she is included in Legal 500’s Arbitration Powerlist CEE 2021.
Jelena Bezarević Pajić
Partner
Bulevar vojvode Bojovića 6-8
SRB-11000 Belgrade
Serbia
T: +381 11 3202 600
j.bezarevic@schoenherr.rs
