Partner at Zunic Law, Nemanja Žunić, has been named the winner of the European award Information Technology Lawyer of the Year for 2025, presented by Lexology at an event held in London on 12 March, 2025.
Lexology awards this recognition to law firms, individual lawyers, corporate legal departments, and legal professionals across more than twenty different fields.
Zunic Law was previously honored as Serbia’s Law Firm of the Year by the Lexology Index and has also been distinguished by Legal 500, a leading global legal ranking platform, for its excellence in Employment Law and Corporate Law.
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Zunic Law for IT Law
Zunic Law is a leading law firm specializing in IT law and digital business. Within its IT practice, Zunic Law provides clients with comprehensive legal advice on various aspects of their digital operations.
We help IT companies conduct negotiations and conclude IT contracts involving artificial intelligence in a legally secure way, while protecting their own interests and those of their clients.
Our information security team helps companies turn risks into advantages through legal-operational design, clearly defined policies, effective contracts, and procedures that work in practice, not just on paper.
We also provide specialized legal support to startups in Serbia and the European Union, enabling innovations to grow on solid, lawful, and sustainable foundations.
The Zunic Law crypto and web3 team ensures legal security for users, partners, and investors in these industries, offering long-term support through compliance programs, team education, and representation before authorities.
Zunic Law is a trusted partner for startups and companies developing successful e-commerce models in Serbia and the EU, combining deep legal expertise with hands-on experience in the digital economy.
Our team assists both established institutions such as banks, insurance companies, and payment processors, and fast-growing startups, to develop FinTech products in Serbia, the region, and the EU, faster, safer, and in full compliance.
Zunic Law understands the complexity of the healthtech and biotech industries and supports organizations operating in these specific legal and business environments. Our team plays a strategic role in helping clients identify opportunities, reduce risks, and increase the value of their innovations.
Our team specializing in the IT and gaming industries provides legal support to all participants, from international companies and publishers to independent studios, hardware manufacturers, advertisers, and e-sports organizations.
Zunic Law supports creators, producers, publishers, brands, agencies, and digital platforms in the media sector to turn rules into advantages, from copyright protection and licensing to content moderation, advertising, data protection, and dispute resolution.
Our firm is recognized as a leader in data protection. We provide comprehensive legal services, from GDPR consulting and interpretation to tailoring regulations to specific business needs. For organizations without an internal DPO, we offer an external Data Protection Officer service that ensures full compliance and manages communication with supervisory authorities. We help connect legal and technical safeguards through compliance with regulations such as NIS2 and DORA, while also offering Data Protection Representative services in Serbia for non-EU companies, acting as a contact point for EU citizens and regulators.
Within its new AI law practice, Zunic Law advises companies and organizations on aligning their operations with the evolving and increasingly strict AI regulatory framework. Our services are designed for all participants in the AI ecosystem, from startups and corporations developing or offering AI systems to companies applying them in daily operations. We help clients meet legal requirements and ensure that AI use in finance, healthcare, education, transport, and other high-risk sectors is fully compliant with regulations. We also support investors, funds, and buyers in acquisitions and due diligence processes by assessing AI compliance and risks, reducing legal uncertainty, and protecting investment value.
Lexology
Lexology is a leading global platform in the legal industry, specializing in publishing expert articles, research, and analysis conducted by top law firms. It enables users to stay up to date with regulatory trends and innovations and to identify experts in relevant areas of law.
The Lexology Lawyer of the Year award is dedicated to outstanding individuals across various areas of law, selected through a rigorous research process.
The selection process for the winners is based on research that includes market data as well as information gathered from the Lexology network, which has over 800,000 subscribers.
As part of the process, the Lexology team receives thousands of nominations, which are evaluated based on several criteria. In the qualitative research, Lexology assesses criteria such as communication skills, industry understanding, managerial abilities, and the strength of the candidate’s team. Additionally, Lexology collects data from independent third parties to gain an objective view of the candidate’s expertise and business practices. The goal of this process is to ensure that the winners are recognized for tangible business results achieved in their practice.
Based on strict criteria, the Lexology research team creates a shortlist of candidates from which they select the winning firms, companies, and experts in each of the defined fields.
This recognition serves as an additional boost for Zunic Law, following the award for the law firm of the year in Serbia in 2024, presented by the Lexology Index, as well as individual honors for partner Nemanja Žunić, who was recognized for two consecutive years by the Client Choice Awards as a Global Elite Thought Leader in the IT industry, as well as by the Lexology Index in the same field.
