Following the successful 2025 Hungarian General Counsel Summit in Budapest, on October 21, 2025, CEE Legal Matters brought the Balkan General Counsel Summit to Belgrade, gathering leading in-house counsel and legal professionals from across the region.
The event explored the evolving role of legal teams across the Balkans – from navigating complex cross-border deals and adopting new technologies to managing regulatory change, compliance, and risk – all while providing a platform for networking and knowledge-sharing among peers.
Agenda highlights included:
- Presentation: AI and the Illusion of Confidentiality: What In-House Counsel Must Know
- Rastko Petakovic
- Presentation: Harnessing the AI Revolution: Governance as a Tool to Manage Regulation, Risks and Opportunities
- Ivan Jovanovic
- Presentation: The Legal Function in the Age of Information Security
- Manja Breznik
- Panel: Privacy at Work: Surveillance, Software, and Subject Access – Legal Lessons from Practice
- Moderator: Goran Radosevic
- Panelists: Marija Calasan, Nana Blagojevic, Manja Breznik, Jelena Danilovic
- Panel: Working with External Counsel in a New Era of Increasing Regulation and AI
- Moderator: Tijana Kojovic
- Panelists: Misa Vorotovic, Elena Tahovska, Sonja Kovac
- Panel: Ethics and Employment Relations
- Moderator: Nana Blagojevic
- Panelists: Djordje Djokic, Djordje Colic, Marija Kecman Puric, Filip Kovac
- Presentation: The Strategic Transformation of Legal Leadership
- Dusanka Urosevic
- Panel: The Role of In-House Counsel in Deal Making
- Moderator: Marta Slavic
- Panelists: Nevena Skocic, Dusanka Urosevic, Emilija Evtimova Spaseska, Nedim Sehic, Irena Saric
The full photo gallery from the event is available on our Facebook page.
The event was made possible with support from our co-hosts Karanovic & Partners and partners at BDK Advokati, Djokic + Partners, and Zivko Mijatovic & Partners – thank you for helping us create a platform for meaningful discussion and professional connection.
Next up: the Turkish General Counsel Summit 2025, followed by our annual CEE Legal Matters Winter Gala in Budapest!
This article was originally published on CEE Legal Matters on October 23, 2025.