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Tijana Žunić Marić

LL.M. Cambridge, Pegasus Scholar

Tijana Žunić Marić is a Partner at Zunic Law Firm in Belgrade, and a Bar Association of Belgrade member.

Practice areas

Corporate Law and M&AAI LawAI GovernanceIT LawData Protection

2026 rankings

  • Thought LeaderData — Data Privacy & Protection
  • Thought LeaderData — Information Technology
  • Highly RecommendedEmployment & Labor — Employment & Labor
  • Highly RecommendedArtificial Intelligence — Transactional and Advisory
  • Highly RecommendedClient Choice — Employment & Labor
Tijana Žunić Marić
Client reviews on legal directories

‘She is the person we call before a board decision, not after. Commercially sharp, fast, and never hides behind caveats.’

‘Tijana turned a cross-border data and AI compliance programme that had stalled for a year into something our regulators, and our engineers, could both work with.’

Biography

Tijana advises banks, fintech companies, insurers and international enterprises on complex cross-border compliance and corporate questions, including DORA, NIS2, the GDPR and the EU AI Act. Her clients include multinational companies operating across Southeast Europe and some of the largest IT companies in the global sector.

She specialised in IT Law and Data Protection at the University of Cambridge and through internships at four leading London barristers’ chambers, under the mentorship of prominent English barristers. Alongside IT Law and Data Protection, her practice covers corporate law and M&A and labour law.

Tijana holds an impressive list of awards and recognitions from international directories, and was named among the 30 tech lawyers from CEE selected by The Recursive community.

From 2015 to 2018 she served as Secretary of the Belgrade Arbitration Center, a permanent institution administering domestic and international disputes under the auspices of the Association for Arbitration Law.

She graduated from the Faculty of Law in Novi Sad in the top 1% of her class, and completed master’s degrees at the University of Novi Sad (summa cum laude), the University of Luxembourg (cum laude) and the University of Cambridge (cum laude), where she was a scholar of the University and the Open Society Foundation. She is fluent in English and also speaks French.

Awards

2026
  • Lexology Index: Thought Leader in Data — Data Privacy & Protection
  • Lexology Index: Thought Leader in Data — Information Technology
  • Lexology Index: Highly Recommended in Employment & Labor — Employment & Labor
  • Lexology Index: Highly Recommended in Artificial Intelligence — Transactional and Advisory
  • Lexology Index: Highly Recommended in Client Choice — Employment & Labor
2025
  • Lexology Index: Recommended Leader in the field of Employment and Labor Law
  • Lexology Index: Recommended in Data — Data Privacy & Protection
  • Lexology Index: Recommended in Data — Information Technology
  • Lexology Index: Highly Recommended in Artificial Intelligence — Transactional and Advisory
2024
  • Who’s Who Legal: Global Leader in the field of Employment Law
  • Legal500: Recognized in two guides for Serbia, Employment Law and Intellectual Property Law
  • Who’s Who Legal: Global Leader in the field of Data Privacy & Protection, “Data:2024” Guide
  • Who’s Who Legal: Global Leader in the field of Information Technology, “Data:2024” Guide
2023
  • Who’s Who Legal: Thought Leader in the field of Information Technology, “Data:2023” Guide
  • Who’s Who Legal: Thought Leader in the field of Data Privacy & Protection, “Data:2023” Guide
  • Who’s Who Legal: Global Leader in the field of Employment Law, “Labour, Employment and Benefits:2023” Guide
  • Legal500: Recognized in two guides for Serbia, Employment Law and Intellectual Property Law
  • Who’s Who Legal: Global Leader in the field of Information Technology, “Data:2023” Guide
  • Who’s Who Legal: Global Leader in the field of Data Privacy & Protection, “Data:2023” Guide
2022
  • Who’s Who Legal: “Thought Leader – Data 2022” in the field of Data Privacy & Protection
  • Who’s Who Legal: Global Leader in the field of Data Privacy & Protection, “Data:2022” Guide
2021
  • Who’s Who Legal: “Thought Leader – Data 2021” in the field of Data Privacy & Protection
  • Who’s Who Legal: Global Leader in the field of Data Privacy & Protection, “Data:2021” Guide
2020
  • Who’s Who Legal: Global Leader in the field of Data Privacy & Protection, “Data:2020” Guide

Work experience

2023 –

Co-Founder at Lexelerate

2015 – 2018

Secretary of the Belgrade Arbitration Center

2015

Founder of IT start-up iQdemic

2014

London Barristers’ Chambers: Brick Court, South Square and Monckton Chambers

2011

Admitted to the Bar Association of Serbia and to the Bar Association of Vojvodina

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