CROATIA MERGERS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor at the Commercial
Antonija Zubović is an Assistant Professor at the Commercial and Company Law Department at the Faculty of Law, University of Rijeka. She is a module coordinator at the Postgraduate Specialist Study Programme "Corporate Finance Law" at the same Faculty. She is an executive editor of the Collected Papers of the University of Rijeka Faculty of Law. She received her Ph.D. in 2012 from the Faculty of Law in Zagreb on the topic of "Acquiring the Voting Control in a Listed Company". She was a member of the research team within the scientific project "Protection of Beneficiary on the Croatian and European Financial Services Market". She was a member of the Working Group on the Negotiating Team for the Accession of the Republic of Croatia to the EU with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration for Chapter 6 - Company Law. In 2014, she was granted international scholarship for research at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg, Germany, on the topic of "Disclosure Rules on Cash-Settled Derivatives and its Implications for Companies' Takeovers". She publishes in the field of company law, legal aspects of capital market and financial services.
Boris Golob, Mag.Ing.Mech.E., has been management consultant for more than 15 years, leading Croatian expert in business model innovation, product and services innovation methodologies and commercialization strategies. He is a Certified Business Model Canvas Trainer; Outcome Driven Innovation Specialist; EFQM excellence assessor; SME Management and Innovation Consultant by HAMAG-BICRO - the Croatian Agency for SMEs, Innovations and Investment; Horizon 2020 SME Instrument Expert evaluator, UNDP Innovation Management Consultant and the CEO of Science and Technology Rark of University of Rijeka. Boris Golob worked on innovation projects in various industries from biotech to shipbuilding, from low-tech & traditional to high-tech & new age. He uses latest management science and innovation theories in his work with start-ups (trying to create something new), incumbent companies (trying to redefine and expand their existing businesses) and scientists (looking for markets and users for their discoveries).
Damir Juričić has twenty years of experience in the private and public sectors; banking, consultancy and public bodies. He is currently working at the Agency for Investments and Competitiveness as deputy managing director responsible for the area of public-private partnership. He received his PhD on the subject of risk management and debt capacity in public-private partnerships. He has published more than thirty scientific and professional papers and two books (in Croatian): The financing of capital projects of local public sector and Fundamentals of public-private partnerships and project finance. Damir is a member of the evaluation team Partnerships Awards in London for the best PPP project in the world. He has participated in numbers of professional and scientific conferences in Croatia and worldwide.
Job Titles:
- Professor at the Commercial
Dionis Jurić is a Professor at the Commercial and Company Law Department at the Faculty of Law, University of Rijeka. From 2011 to 2017 he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Collected Papers of the Law Faculty of the University of Rijeka. He is a Module Coordinator of the Postgraduate Specialist Programme "Law on Corporate Finance" at the same Faculty. He was a researcher at the scientific project "Protection of Beneficiary on the Croatian and European Financial Services Market". He authored many articles on company and commercial law.
Job Titles:
- Head of the International and European Private Law Department at the Faculty of Law
Ivana Kunda is an Associate Professor and the Head of the International and European Private Law Department at the Faculty of Law of the University of Rijeka and a Vice-Dean for Science. She was awarded the University of Rijeka Foundation Award for the Year of 2008. She was granted international scholarships including the Fulbright Research Fellow scholarship in 2010 for the research at the Columbia University, the Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht scholarship in 2007, 2008 and 2014 for the research at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and the Deutsche Stiftung für internationale rechtliche Zusammenarbeit scholarship in 2002 for research at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law. She authored papers published in Croatia and abroad and a monograph on overriding mandatory provisions. She is a member of the International Law Association and International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property as well as deputy president of the Croatian Comparative Law Association.
Jeffrey M. Epstein, a retired partner in the international law firm, Kaye Scholer LLP, is a former co-chairman of Kaye Scholer's Finance Department. In his years of practice, Mr. Epstein has handled matters involving the entire range of banking and commercial finance transactions. In retirement, Mr. Epstein has remained active with the International section of the American Bar Association and has taught American law courses in various Eastern European countries, including Croatia.
Nataša Žunić Kovačević is a Professor and the Head of the Financial Law Department at the Faculty of Law, University of Rijeka. She serves as the Vice-Dean for Graduate Study Affairs. She is a Module Coordinator of the Postgraduate Specialist Programme "Corporate Finance Law" at the same Faculty. She was a researcher within the scientific project "Protection of Beneficiary on the Croatian and European Financial Services Market". She is a member of the Croatian Academy of Legal Sciences, the Croatian Comparative Law Association (CCLA), and the Editorial Board of the Croatian Law Review. The Croatian Parliament appointed her as a member of its special body - the Commission on Fiscal Policy. Her special interests include European and international tax law and procedural tax law. She authored a number of book chapters and papers on tax law, financial law and local finances. She also participated in many scientific conferences organized at national and international level.
Neven Vranković joined Atlantic Grupa in 1998 at the position of Executive Director for Corporate Affairs. In 2001, his responsibilities were extended with Atlantic Grupa's mergers and acquisitions, and, in 2002, he was named the Group Vice President for Corporate Affairs. His earlier professional experience is related to the working at the legal department of Bergen Bank in Norway and as a career diplomat at the Croatian embassies in Washington, D.C. and Belgrade. He was a member of the Croatian working group preparing for the accession negotiations with the European Union regarding Chapter 6 - Company Law. He graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Zagreb in Croatia and received his master's degree from the Washington College of Law in the U.S. He gained additional knowledge in the M&A field at the INSEAD Business School, France.
Nikolina Grković is a Research Assistant working at the Faculty of Law, University of Rijeka, at the Commercial and Company Law Department. She was a junior researcher at the scientific project "Protection of Beneficiary on the Croatian and European Financial Services Market". She holds an LL.M. in "Corporate Finance Law" from the Faculty of Law, University of Rijeka and is currently a Ph.D. student at the same Faculty working on the thesis on equity crowdfunding. She is co-author of a textbook on UCITS funds and co-author of scientific papers on Madoff investment fraud presented at international conferences.
Stjepan Gadžo works at the Faculty of Law, University of Rijeka as a Senior Assistant at the Financial Law Department. He is a Ph.D. student at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb. On 9 May 2016, at the Faculty of Law of the University of Zagreb he defended his doctoraldissertation titled "Nexus requirements for taxation of non-residents' business income: a normative analysis in the context of the global economy". In 2013, he was awarded the Ernst Mach Grant by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy for a research project at the Institute for International and Austrian Tax Law, Vienna University of Economics and Business. His professional training at the same institution in 2014 was funded by an Erasmus+ Programme. In 2015, he was awarded a research scholarship by the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance, Munich, related to his doctoral project.