Dr. Milan Parivodić, Chairman, Foreign Investor Services
Dr. Milan Parivodić is the Founder and Chairman of Forinvest (Foreign Investors Services), a Belgrade-based company providing strategic support to major foreign investment projects involving multinational and other large companies. He structures investment deals, nurturing their efficient growth and success in Serbia, and fixes problems that may arise in the process. Dr. Parivodić is also member of the Government of Serbia’s European Integration Council.
He is the former Serbian Minister of International Economic Relations (2004-2007), Minister of Finance (2006-2007) and the Advisor to the Prime Minister of Serbia for economy and law (2007-2008). He was a partner at the largest Austrian law firm, Wolf Theiss (2007-2009). He taught contract and property law at the University of Belgrade Law School from 1991-2004.
Dr. Parivodić has inspired, drafted and defended in Parliament major pieces of commercial and civil legislation: Foreign Trade Law, Foreign Investment Law, Mortgage Law, Arbitration Law, IP Enforcement Law, Concessions Law, Church Property Restitution Law, draft Property Law, and draft law on General Restitution.
He holds a doctorate in business law (SJD) from the University of Belgrade Law School (2002), an LL.M. in International Business Law from the University College London (1997), an M.A. in International Business Law from the University of Belgrade Law School (1995), and a LL.B. from the same school. Dr. Parivodić was admitted to the Serbian Bar (1999).
Dr. Parivodić has published two legal monographs “Exclusive Distribution in the Laws of Yugoslavia and the European Community” (1996) and “Law of International Franchising” (2003), and numerous articles in international and Serbian law journals in the fields of international trade law, contract law, intellectual property law, competition law and distribution law.
