Attorneys at Law, Belgrade
Serbian counsel for foreign clients
Mastilo is Serbian for ink. A Belgrade practice representing foreign founders, investors and private clients: company formation, residence, property and tax. Drafted precisely, explained in your language.
The practice
Foreign clients need a lawyer who answers in full sentences, explains each step, and treats a power of attorney signed in Berlin or Dubai as routine, because here, it is.
Mastilo is a Belgrade practice for people and companies entering Serbia from abroad. One attorney owns your matter from start to finish, so nothing is lost between departments and nothing is lost in translation.
Practice areas
One thread through every discipline: getting foreign capital and foreign people safely into Serbian law.
We establish Serbian companies for foreign owners and then keep them in order. A d.o.o. can be 100% foreign-held, formed on an apostilled power of attorney without you flying in, and operational, registered, banked, tax-numbered, typically within two to three weeks.
Lawful, durable status in Serbia for you, your family and your team. We plan the legal basis around what you actually intend to do here, employment, your own company, property, family, and run the application end-to-end, including the unified work-and-residence permit.
Acquiring and holding Serbian property with clean title. We read the cadastre before a single dinar moves, structure the deposit and the notarial closing, and stay on the file until your ownership is registered, not just signed.
Arrive in the Serbian tax system deliberately instead of discovering it retroactively. We plan your residency position before you relocate, apply double-taxation treaty relief where it exists, and coordinate with your advisors abroad so the two systems agree about you.
For foreign companies operating in Serbia without a local legal department: we are it. Employment contracts and rulebooks, contractor structuring, and a monthly retainer that gets any contract reviewed and any question answered fast.
Procedures, in plain order
The procedures foreign clients ask about most, in the order the steps actually happen, with the questions we hear every week.
The d.o.o., društvo sa ograničenom odgovornošću, the Serbian limited-liability company, is the default vehicle for foreign founders. It can be wholly foreign-owned, formed by a single founder, and the entire procedure can run on a power of attorney while you stay abroad.
How to obtain temporary residence in Serbia
Temporary residence, privremeni boravak, is the permit that lets you lawfully live in Serbia beyond a tourist stay. Recent reforms moved applications online, merged work and residence into a single unified permit, and allow cards issued for up to three years.
How to buy property in Serbia as a foreign national
Foreign individuals can generally acquire apartments, houses and commercial property in Serbia under the condition of reciprocity with their home country. The transaction itself is notarial, registry-driven and, done properly, very safe. Done casually, it is where foreign money gets hurt.
General orientation only, not legal advice. Every matter is confirmed against current regulations before we act.
From first message to signed file
Use the form or email. A few sentences are enough. Leave out confidential detail until we have confirmed that we can act for you. Before we engage, we run a conflict check.
You are introduced by name to the licensed Serbian attorney who will handle your matter, with their background and a fee proposal.
Nothing starts until you sign a short engagement letter. From then on, one attorney owns your file from the first document to the final registration.
If your matter falls outside our practice, or we cannot act because of a conflict of interest, we will tell you plainly and point you to a colleague we trust.
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