Olga Sipka is a Special Counsel in the Belgrade office and the co-head of the firm-wide Competition & State Aid service line.

Olga’s core practices include competition and antitrust, regulatory and compliance. She boasts significant, broad-based experience advising and representing leading Serbian and international companies on numerous competition, data protection, corporate, and regulatory projects covering Serbia and the Western Balkans. Her experience extends across a wide range of industries, including pharmaceuticals, insurance, banking, consumer goods, telecommunications, IT and healthcare.

Olga has also held/developed a number of workshops, training sessions and presentations on compliance with competition, regulatory, anti-bribery, white collar and data protection laws. Olga regularly advises international institutions and state bodies on policy options and facilitates the development and the dialogue between the relevant stakeholders.

Olga Šipka is highly responsive to client needs and consistently goes the extra mile to secure the best results. Her commitment to addressing concerns and providing effective solutions are greatly appreciated.

Legal 500, 2025

RECENT ENGAGEMENTS INCLUDE ADVISING

COMPETITION & STATE AID*

• THE SERBIAN COMPETITION AUTHORITY and THE WORLD BANK on a sector inquiry into the Serbian Bus Sector Transport Market and the Serbian Rail Cargo Market
• AIK BANK/ALPHA BANK on the competition law aspects related to their merger, considered one of the largest mergers in the banking sector in Serbia
• CLOSE TO 100 MULTIJURISDICTIONAL MERGER CONTROL ASSESMENTS AND FILINGS in the Western Balkans; Olga regularly manages filings in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Kosovo, and Albania
• WORLD BANK and OECD Product Market Regulation analysis separately for Montenegro and Serbia. This was the first ever data collection and assessment of the regulatory barriers to competition in a broad range of key policy areas and individual sectors: energy, telecom, transport, services markets, etc.
• CLIENTS ACTIVE IN INSURANCE, PHARMA AND IT SECTORS in antitrust proceedings before the Serbian Competition Authority

Compliance, risk & sensitive investigations*

• ONE OF THE LARGEST PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCERS in Serbia and Montenegro on developing a data protection compliance program and reviewing relevant compliance aspects, including the full alignment with all compliance aspects (data protection, anticorruption, sanctions, pharma regulation)
• SEVERAL CLIENTS on high-profile data protection investigations before the Serbian Commissioner for Information of Public Importance and Personal Data Protection
• ONE OF THE LARGEST HEALTHCARE INSTITUTIONS in Serbia on developing a data protection and anticorruption compliance program, organizing training for over a hundred health care professionals, drafting compliance manuals and rulebooks, dissemination, etc.
• SEVERAL COMPANIES ACTIVE IN IT on cyber security and compliance aspects regarding the launch of e-documents service tools
• A WORLD-WIDE HOME APPLIANCE PRODUCER on the development of a cross-border multijurisdictional data protection compliance program
• SEVERAL MULTINATIONAL GROUPS active in Serbia and Montenegro on regional transfer impact assessments and a day-to-day data protection advice

Other areas*

• AGILCON, the largest regional salesforce consulting partner, in the course of its expansion into Serbia as well as on corporate and intellectual property matters
• A DARK FIBER TELECOMS PROVIDER on the expansion into Serbia, including corporate support and regulatory advice (obtaining permits, etc.)
• A LEADING IT COMPANY IN SERBIA on termination of employment, reorganisation of staffing for top executives, capital markets, corporate and various other issues
• WEBASTO, an international automotive company, on the termination/liquidation of a business in Serbia
• BAMBI, a leading confectionery producer and a member of the Coca Cola Hellenic group, on commercial policy and distributorship arrangements from various legal aspects, including dispute resolution, commercial terms, multijurisdictional regional aspects on regular basis

*Experience prior to joining Kinstellar.

EDUCATION

• 2009: New York University, USA, LL.M.
• 2007: University of Belgrade, Serbia, Faculty of Law, LL.B.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION

Belgrade Bar Association

LANGUAGES

Serbian, English