Robert Kordić is an associate specializing in intellectual property law, but his additional strongpoints are two heavily intertwined areas of law: corporate/M&A and competition & EU. 

He works on corporate/M&A engagements, heads multi-jurisdictional transactions, cross-border due diligence workstreams and is a go-to specialist when it comes to competition matters, including obtaining EU and Slovenian merger control clearances for clients and handling competition law risk.

Robert’s work encompasses a wide range of experience across the spectrum of competition law matters, including representing clients in EU and Slovenian merger control procedures, sector/market investigations, abuse of dominance investigations, competition law risk assessments and abuse control and state aid law. He is involved in all transactions, in particular in cross-border mergers.

Robert Kordić is a former Max-Planck scholarship holder and has lectured on competition law and intellectual property topics at the Universities of Zagreb and Sarajevo.
 

After more than 10 years of experience spanning from being a co-head of the industrial property department of the Slovenian Intellectual Property Office, where he was actively involved in the preparation and drafting of laws and EU regulations, to being a legal advisor on IP matters in renowned SEE law firms working and coordinating comprehensive and demanding cross-jurisdictional M&A projects, Robert joined CMS in Ljubljana in 2019. Since then, he has been advising national and international corporate clients on legal issues related to intellectual property, media law, helping with all aspects of copyright and related rights, design rights, trademark rights, passing off, breach of confidence and patents.

Robert’s intellectual property work ranges from day-to-day IP advice such as registration of trademarks through optimisation of IP portfolio of companies, IP litigations, drafting of cease-and-desist letters to working on infringement cases.

His clients, whether they are start-ups or big corporates, come from wide range of industries where IP is high on the agenda, such as BioTech, MedTech, AgriTech, pharmaceutical, communications, media, and IT. His strength are also collective management associations where IP quite often intertwines with competition law.

Robert Kordić is a former Max-Planck scholarship holder and has lectured on competition law and intellectual property topics at the Universities of Zagreb and Sarajevo.