Pavle Pensa is a senior and founding partner whose main areas of practice include counselling and management of negotiations on demanding M&A transactions, restructurings and joint ventures, and counselling and representation of clients in competition law and state-aid cases. In his long-standing legal career he has represented several domestic and foreign clients in complex disputes in national and international arbitrations. International legal directories rank him amongst the leading Slovenian attorneys.

Education

• Law Faculty of Ljubljana University, Slovenia (1982)

Significant Accomplishments

• Managing Partner at Jadek & Pensa (1993-2023)
• Senior Partner at Jadek & Pensa (since 1993)
• Sole Practitioner (1990-1993)
• Research fellow at Centre for International Cooperation and Development (1985-1990)
• Trainee at the Ljubljana Court (1984)

Professional Associations

• International Bar Association (since 1993)
• Slovenian bar (since 1990)
• Listed as arbitrator on the list of arbitrators of the International Arbitral Centre of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber in Vienna
• Country correspondent of the Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation, Thomson, Sweet & Maxwell, London

• Competition Law in Central and Eastern Europe, Wolters Kluwer 2014 (chapter on Slovenia)
• Joint Ventures,Thomson Reuters 2012 (chapter on Slovenia)
• European Competition Laws, LexisNexis 2012 (chapter on Slovenia)
• Getting the Deal Through: Merger Control 2010, Global Competition Review (Chapter on Slovenia)
• Competition Cases from the European Union, Sweet & Maxwell, London 2008 (Chapter on Slovenia)
• Getting the Deal Through: Vertical Agreements, 2007, Law Business Research Ltd., London 2007 (Co-author of the Chapter on Slovenia)
• Global Merger Control Manual, 6th edition, Cameron May, London, 2006 (Chapter on Slovenia)
• The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Merger Control 2005, Global Legal Group Ltd. (Chapter on Slovenia)
• Global Financial Services Regulators, Europe, Issue 1: 2004, Richmond Law & Tax, Surrey, 2004 (Chapter on Slovenia)
• International Mergers, The Antitrust Process, Sweet & Maxwell, London 2001 (Chapter on Slovenia)
• The Global System of Trade Preferences - tariff and non-tariff barriers in developing countries, Research Centre for Cooperation with Developing Countries, Ljubljana 1985 (co-author)