Gospić Plazina Štojs

Practice areas

Gospić Plazina Štojs is a corporate law firm advising local and international companies, private equity and venture capital funds and financial institutions across Croatian market.
We have a wealth of knowledge and experience in business set-up, transactional work, capital markets, financing and complementary practices.
 

Our relentless focus on client goals combined with broad experience enables us to anticipate and work through potential challenges on any given transaction and to develop effective solutions to these challenges. We help clients address shareholder activism, plan for and overcome antitrust challenges and navigate regulatory regimes to achieve their business objectives. We represent buyers and sellers, from large multinationals to SMEs and private investors, handling all manner of public and private M&A transactions.
We offer advice throughout the entire transaction cycle, from strategic planning and structuring, due diligence exercises, corporate changes, deal implementation through to post-merger integration.

Understanding the importance of corporate governance and compliance requirements is vital to succeed in today’s fast-paced business environment. We team up with companies and their in-house legal teams, senior management and boards of directors and advise on a broad range of corporate governance, compliance and disclosure matters. Applying the integrated approach, we advise on issues from board composition, officers’ duties and liabilities, shareholders’ meetings and voting, internal policies, shareholder activism to regulatory filings, announcements and meeting regulatory requirements.

We provide advice on all forms of commercial contracts and arrangements to support our clients’ day to day and strategic business activities with expertise across all the sectors and related regulatory regimes. Clients benefit from our general commercial experience which encompasses advising on a variety of commercial contracts including contracts covering outsourcing conducted through a procurement process, distribution, franchising, software licensing, development, marketing, manufacturing, supply, maintenance and support, white labelling, collaboration, joint venture agreements and general terms and conditions.

Whether you are looking to raise capital in the financial markets to expand your business or simply elevate its public profile, we have the experience and knowledge to navigate you through the process. Our advice covers equity and debt capital markets transactions as well as matters arising out of continuing regulatory securities compliance requirements.

We advise financial institutions, direct lenders, private equity sponsors and corporate borrowers on
on a broad spectrum of domestic and cross-border financing transactions and have comprehensive experience in general banking, project finance and non–performing loans transactions. Due to our integrated approach and professional background, we are well-positioned to address regulatory and legislative issues and guide you through an increasingly complex regulatory landscape.

We advise the full array of stakeholders involved with financially distressed businesses, including debtors and creditors, equity holders, new investors, boards of directors and senior management teams. Our team regularly collaborates with financial and tax advisors and responds with strategic guidance allowing clients to overcome legal, operational and corporate governance obstacles that may arise in troubled situations and to achieve their business or investment goals.

We understand the pressures that today’s companies, boards of directors, compensation committees, management teams and individual executives face. We advise across the full spectrum of employment, compensation and benefits issues, both advisory and transactional. This includes advising on issues from executive compensation, employment, incentives, employee relations, disputes, HR policies and privacy to employment aspects of mergers, acquisitions, outsourcings, relocations and restructurings.

We offer advice across a range of practice areas where real estate is at the center of the transaction and advise a full spectrum of market participants, including public and private investors, private equity funds, institutional investors, developers and financial institutions. Our capabilities span the full spectrum of real estate transactions, ranging from acquisition, disposition and development of large properties to corporate and finance matters.

Ivan Hmelina

Associate

Ivan advises clients in a wide range of corporate and commercial law matters and regularly participates in projects involving due diligence. He assists in drafting of transaction documentation in financing and M&A projects. Ivan represents clients in corporate disputes and administrative procedures. He provides guidance in a variety of regulatory matters, with special emphasis on personal data compliance.

Lana Štojs
Attorney at Law – Partner
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Lana specializes in mergers and acquisitions, corporate law, capital markets and securities-related law. 

She has substantial experience advising on numerous high-profile M&A and capital market transactions in diverse industry sectors, including banking and financial services, insurance, energy, healthcare, consumer goods, retail and telecoms. She also has wide ranging experience in labor law and strategic employment aspects of M&A deals and restructuring procedures. Lana regularly advises on joint ventures and business’ set-up, corporate governance, shareholders’ activism, commercial contracts as well as on securities compliance matters. 

According to Chambers & Partners 2019, “she makes every effort to provide exceptional client service and approaches all aspects in depth” and is described as “brilliant and very experienced transactions lawyer”.

Chambers & Partners’ 2017 quoted that Lana “is frequently seen advising on prominent M&A transactions including on due diligence, regulatory and competition issues” and that clients appreciate her “fast, straightforward, diligent and precise” nature.

Anja Maljković

Associate
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Anja is focused on general commercial, employment and corporate law. She assists in formation of new business entities, conducts due diligence exercises in diverse industries and advises clients on regulatory issues.

She graduated from the Faculty of Law in Zagreb where she was an active member of the European Law Students’ Association.

Matea Gospić Plazina
Attorney at Law – Partner
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Matea specializes in domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, equity investments, fundraisings and has expertise in a range of high-profile commercial real estate transactions. 

Her field of expertise includes advising on share and asset deals, due diligence, corporate law, real estate asset management, project development and complex leasing transactions. She has significant experience in restructurings and bankruptcy proceedings and in a range of regulatory and compliance matters including sustainability and ESG. In addition, she regularly represents clients in connection with their strategic intellectual property, data and technology-focused transactions. Given the wide range of her activities, she advises clients from various industries, including IT, private equity, construction, energy, hospitality, FMCG etc.  

Along with a law degree, Matea holds an MBA degree from the Swiss School of Business and Management.

The clients recognized Matea for “working very well with financial consultants” and “easy to talk to, quick to answer, very responsive” (Legal 500 2021).