The
Milojevic Sekulic & Associates (MSA IP) Law Office was founded in 2012.
Milan Milojevic and
Vuk Sekulic decided at the time, together with a group of colleagues from across the region, to leave another well-established intellectual property law firm to start their own firm. At the beginning, it was only a few of them in the Belgrade office and not more than a dozen in the region in total.
– The first few years were very difficult because, in addition to the day-to-day work on our clients' files, we had to work hard to build the organization in the entire region of Southeast Europe and to attract clients. However, through our adversity we managed to build a sense of community and camaraderie that is now passed on to new colleagues who are joining the firm – Milan Milojevic emphasizes in his interview with eKapija, whereas Vuk Sekulic reminds that the idea behind the establishment of MSA IP was to provide the best possible service for clients, on one hand by providing a more motivating working environment for smart, talented lawyers and paralegals, and, on the other hand, by being highly proactive in working alongside clients to better understand their needs and to offer the best possible solutions in a complex and constantly changing environment.
– Today, six years later, we are happy to say that we have succeeded in achieving this. The evidence of that is not only in the constantly growing number of clients and cases that we are working on, but also the fact that today we have more than sixty people in our head office in Belgrade and close to a hundred in the region in total. In addition to all the countries of the former Yugoslavia, we have our own offices in Albania and in Bulgaria, however through a network of affiliated offices we cover the entire region of Southeast Europe and, as of lately, even the countries of the former Soviet Union – Sekulic says.
The interview with Milan Milojevic and Vuk Sekulic is the eleventh interview with companies- members of the Swiss-Serbian Chamber of Commerce, through which the SSCC promotes the operations of Swiss companies in Serbia, while highlighting the values and the good business practice of this country and these companies.eKapija: Your main field of activity is intellectual property protection. How did you decide to specialize in it?Vuk: Even as a kid, I had a vague idea of what intellectual property was. In the comic books that I had drawn, I had always put a C in a circle, a symbol of copyright protection, although I had incorrectly spelt the word copyright as "copryght". During my studies at the Faculty of Law in Belgrade, I became interested in intellectual property law; however, I had taken a different path after graduation and for many years practiced mostly criminal law. Luckily, Milan, who was my friend from high school, had invited me to join the firm where he was working at the time, and thus my career in intellectual property law would officially commence.