Robert Travaš

President of the Management Board

robert.travas@tip.hr

+385 (0)1 4665 665

+385 (0)1 4665 666

Education

1977 - 1981 - V and IV Grammar Schools in Zagreb
1987 - graduated from the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb
1989 - passed the Croatian Bar Examination before the Ministry of Justice and Administration in Zagreb

Professional experience

1987 - 1990 - trainee attorney at law at the law office of Nikica Valentić and Bosiljko Mišetić in Zagreb
July 1990 - Secretary of the Executive Council of the Zagreb City Assembly
October 1990 - Adviser at the Office of the President of the Republic of Croatia
December 1990 - Assistant Head of the Office of the President of the Republic of Croatia
September 1992 - May 1993 - Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Croatia
June 1993 - established an independent legal practice
March 1997 - present - founder and President of the Management Board of TRAVAŠ I PARTNERI ODVJETNIČKO DRUŠTVO d.o.o., Zagreb, Jurkovićeva 24

Memberships and positions

May 1991 to August 1991 - stayed in the United States under the sponsorship of the “National Forum Foundation”, Washington, D.C., and worked in the U.S. Congress: in the House of Representatives, in the office of Congressman Bill Goodling (R, Pennsylvania), and in the U.S. Senate, in the office of Senator Brock Adams (D, Washington)
1992 - member of the delegation of the Republic of Croatia to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland
1992 - 1994 - member of the Supervisory Board of JAMNICA d.d.
1992 - 1993 - member of the Supervisory Board of JP BRIJUNI
1993 - 1994 - member of the Supervisory Board of LJEKARNE ZAGREB
1993 - 1999 - member of the Supervisory Board of HOTEL INTER-CONTINENTAL ZAGREB
1995 - 1996 - member of the Supervisory Board of ZAGREBAČKI ELEKTRIČNI TRAMVAJ
2007 - 2009 - member of the Management Board of the Zagreb Bar Association
2008 - 2009 - member of the Council of Judges of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Croatia as a representative of the Croatian Bar Association
2009 - 2012 - President of the Zagreb Bar Association
2009 - 2012 - Vice-President of the Croatian Bar Association, member of the Management Board and of the Executive Board of the Croatian Bar Association
2012 - 2018 and 2022 - 2024 - President of the Croatian Bar Association
2012 - 2018 and 2022 - 2024 - Editor-in-Chief of the journal “Odvjetnik” and of the website of the Croatian Bar Association
2009 - 2024 - member of the Croatian Bar Association Committee for the Advancement of the Legal Profession
2009 - 2024 - member of the Croatian Bar Association Committee for the Legal Profession Act and the Association’s General Regulations
2009 - 2024 - member of the Croatian Bar Association Committee for the Improvement of the Work and Matters Relating to Law Firms
2009 - 2021 - member of the Croatian Bar Association Working Group on Civil Law
2015 - 2021 - member of the Croatian Bar Association Committee for International Relations
2018 - 2021 - member of the Croatian Bar Association Working Group on matters relating to the Right of Access to Information Act
2012 - 2018 - representative of the Croatian Bar Association delegation to the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE)
2018 - 2021 - National Representative to the International Association of Lawyers (UIA - Union Internationale des Avocats)
2014 - 2018 - member of the Quality Management Committee of the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb
since 2014 - member of the Board of the “Dr. Jadranko Crnić Foundation”
since 2018 - examiner for the Croatian Bar Examination before the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Croatia in the fields of substantive civil law and commercial law
since 2019 - one of the founders of Rotary Club Zagreb Medveščak and President of the club in the 2022/2023 Rotary year
2025 - one of the founders and President of the Main Board of the Croatian Society for Corporate Governance and Management

Honours and awards

1993 - “Commemorative Medal of the Homeland War 1990 - 1992”
1993 - certificate of appreciation from the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare of the Republic of Croatia - Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić Foundation, for a voluntary financial contribution and donation to children whose parents were killed in the Homeland War and to children with war-related disabilities
2013 - “Golden Plaque” of the Bar Association of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina for an outstanding contribution to the advancement of the legal profession as an autonomous and independent professional activity and to the development of collegial relations between the Bar Association of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Croatian Bar Association
2015 - “Charter with Plaque” of the Vojvodina Bar Association for exceptional merit in advancing and promoting the legal profession as an autonomous and independent profession
2012 - 2018 - Medal of the Israel Bar Association and Medal of the Milan Bar Association
2024 - Medal of the Paris Bar Association
2024 - “Dr. Danilo Majaron Plaque” of the Slovenian Bar Association for exceptional merit in the development of the legal profession and of friendly relations between the Slovenian Bar Association and the Croatian Bar Association

Main practice areas

commercial and company law, civil law, real estate, foreign investments, projects, privatisation, banking, finance, capital markets, labour law

Foreign languages

English (fluent)
Italian (conversational)