
meet our
skilled and passionate
team.
The law firm Surić & Partners, based in Zadar, aims to provide comprehensive, high-quality, and effecient legal support tailored to the interests and needs of each individual client.
Our team works with domestic and international clients, successfully provides legal services in Croatian, English and German language.
We have extensive experience in various branches of law, and our areas of work include legal matters related to real estate, legal representation in the application for the acquisition of Croatian citizenship, proprietary law and land registry law, law of obligations, family and law of succession, commercial and corporate law, administrative law, and bankruptcy law.

Karlo Surić
Lawyer/Senior partner
EducationGimnazija Jurja Barakovića Zadar (2005-2009)
Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb (1996 -2002)
Bar exam (2005)
Languages
Croatian (native speaker), English (advanced level)
Karlo Surić is a lawyer and a graduate of the Faculty of Law at the University of Zagreb. He began his rich working experience in law as a legal associate at the Marinović i partneri d.o.o. law firm in 2002. After passing the bar exam in 2006, he was registered in the register of lawyers. On September 1, 2006 he opened his own independent law office, and later he founded the today’s Surić&Partneri d.o.o. law firm, where he is a senior partner.

Ivona Stazić Malbaša
Lawyer/Junior partner
EducationGimnazija Jurja Barakovića Zadar (2005-2009)
Faculty of Law, University of Rijeka (2009-2014)
Bar exam (2018)
Languages
Croatian (native speaker), English (advanced level), German (basic level)
Ivona Stazić Malbaša is a lawyer and a graduate of the Faculty of Law at the University of Rijeka. During her studies she organized and participated in various volunteer actions with an emphasis on the humanitarian work and connecting the faculty of law with the local community. She started her working experience in law in January 2015 as a legal associate in the Law Office of lawyer Karlo Surić in Zadar. After passing the bar exam, she was registered in the register of lawyers, and became a junior partner in the today’s law firm Surić&Partneri d.o.o. based in Zadar.


Ema Živković
Lawyer
EducationGimnazija Jurja Barakovića Zadar (2010-2014)
Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb (2014-2020)
Bar exam (2023)
Languages
Croatian (native speaker), English (advanced level)
Ema Živković is a lawyer and graduate of the Faculty of Law at the University of Zagreb. During her studies, she volunteered at the Law Clinic of the Faculty of Law in Zagreb where she learned how legal institutions function in the social context, but also gained her first experience in the law profession by providing free legal assistance to citizens in the form of providing general legal information and offering opinion on legal matters. She started her official work experience in law in February 2021 as a legal associate at the Surić&Partneri d.o.o. Zadar, and she has been a part of our team ever since. She passed her bar exam in May 2023 and in March 2024 she was registered in the register of lawyers.

Hella Petani
Lawyer
EducationGimnazija Franje Petrića (2011-2015)
Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb (2015-2020)
Bar exam (2022)
Public procurement certificate (2022)
Languages
Croatian (native speaker), English (advanced level)
Hella Petani is a lawyer, and a graduate of the Faculty of Law of the University of Zagreb. During her studies she achieved significant successes, such as participating in the international commercial arbitration competition “Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot, 2019/2020”, where she and her team won prizes such as the Special Award for the Best Memorandum for Respondent (among the best 5% in the world) and the Special Award for reaching the best 64 teams of the competition (among the best 16% in the world), and finally the “Rector’s Award for special competitive successes, 2020”. During her studies, Hella was a demonstrator in international private law, and she also holds a C1 English certificate. She was a legal associate at the Luka Mrkić Law Office in Zadar, and she joined our team after passing the bar exam. In March 2024 she was registered in the register of lawyers.


Lovre Bubičić
Legal associate
EducationZadar private high school (2010-2014)
Faculty of Law, University of Rijeka (2014-2020)
Bar exam (2023)
Languages
Croatian (original), english (advanced)
Lovre Bubičić is a legal apprentice who attended the Faculty of Law at the University of Rijeka. During his studies, he was a member of the European Lawyers Association (ELSA), and as part of the said association he performed certain functions and organized various workshops, seminars, conferences, study visit trips, summer law schools and similar events. He completed his internship as a legal apprentice at the Kotlar, Vidov & partneri d.o.o. law firm, and after passing the bar exam, he joined our team.

Suzana Ivković-Klinar
Office manager
Education“Sophie Scholl Gymnasium” Munich, Germany (1979 -1988)
University of Zadar, Department of English Language and Literature, and Department of French Language and Literature (1988-1994)
Languages
German (native speaker), Croatian (native speaker), English (advanced level), French (advanced level)
Suzana Ivković-Klinar holds a master’s degree in English language and literature and French language and literature. Suzana completed her primary and secondary education in Germany, and she studied at the University of Zadar. She started her rich working experience in the Time Warner GMBH company in the Copyright protection department. She continued her career in the Tankerkomerc d.d. Zadar company as the director’s assistant, and afterwards in the banking sector at the Hypo Alpe Adria bank d.d. (now Addiko bank d.d.). She became a part of our team in February 2021 as the office manager.


Lovrenka Surić
Administrative assistant
EducationGimnazija Vladimira Nazora (1999-2003)
University of Zadar, Department of Geography, and Department of Sociology (2003-2010)
Languages
Croatian (native speaker), English (advanced level), Italian (basic level)
Lovrenka Surić holds a master’s degree in geography and sociology from the University of Zadar. She started her working experience in the Union of Associations of Croatian Veterans of the Homeland War of Zadar County (HVIDRA), and she continued her professional career in the media sector, as a TV presenter at the Gradska TV Zadar, and a radio presenter at the HRT Radio Zadar. She became part of our team in January 2015 as an administrative assistant.