Jure Levovnik

Practice Areas

Commercial Litigation and Arbitration

Electronic Communications and IT, Energy

Intellectual Property

Career

Jure Levovnik is Senior Partner and one of the Managing Partners. He has vast experience in representing domestic and foreign clients in complex commercial disputes and international arbitrations. In foreign legal directories, he is recognised as the leading expert in Slovenia in this field. Jure has specialised also in the field of electronic communications and information technology law, energy law and intellectual property law (database rights, copyright and unfair competition). He also has several experiences in the field of mergers and acquisitions and corporate law.

Professional Memberships

Arbitrator at the Ljubljana Arbitration Centre at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia

Member of Arbitration Board at Slovenian Handball Association

Board of Associated European Energy Consultants (AEEC) (since 2019)

International Bar Association (since 2013)

European Trade Mark and Design Attorney (since 2013)

Slovenian bar (since 2006)

Slovenian Sports Law Association

Publications

Infringement of database makers’ rights, Pravna praksa no. 41-42/2021

Sport, NFTs and Crypto Collecting, Pravna praksa no. 21-22/2021

Sport and Law, Institute for Local Self-Government and Public Procurement, Faculty of Law, Society of Sport Law, Official Gazette of the RS, 2020 (co-author)

Judicial protection of trade secrets, Pravna praksa no. 8/2019 (co-author)

Protection of a trade secret, Pravna praksa no. 7/2019 (co-author)

EU Energy Law: Renewable Energy in the Member States of the EU, Volume III, 2nd Edition, Claeys & Casteels, the Netherlands, 2018 (co-author of the chapter on Slovenia)

Deadline for appeal against a judgment under the amendment to the Civil Procedure Act (ZPP-E), Pravna praksa no. 2/2018

Protection of business secrets in commercial disputes, Svet kapitala, 21. 7. 2017

Preparations for the main hearing and the main hearing under the ZPP-E, Odvetnik, no. 3(81) – summer 2017

Exclusion of minority shareholders and the fate of the first penguin, Svet kapitala, 16. 12. 2016

Legal Protection of Databases (Selected Legal Aspects), Legal Yearbook 2014, Institute for Comparative Law at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana, Ljubljana, 2014

Presumption of Fair Compensation in a Post-takeover Shareholders, Pravna praksa no. 29-30/2014

Law in the Information Society, GV Založba, Ljubljana, 2014 (co-author)

Telecommunication Laws in Europe (chapter on Slovenia), sixth edition, Bloomsbury Professional Limited, 2013

The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Telecommunication Laws and Regulations 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, Global Legal Group Ltd., London (author of the chapter on Slovenia), available here

Football League Fixture List as a Work Protected by Copyright?, Pravna praksa no. 10/2012

Withdrawal of the Consumer from a Contract on Electronic Supply of Digital Content, Pravna praksa no. 3/2011

Liability of Intermediary Information Society Service Providers, Pravna praksa no. 42/2010

Google May Continue Providing AdWords Service, Pravna praksa no. 13/2010

The Legal Protection of a Legal Information System as a Database, Pravna praksa no. 26/2009

Sport & Law, GV Založba, Ljubljana, 2008 (co-author)

Protection of Consumers against Marketing by an Unauthorised Use of a Celebrity, Podjetje in delo no. 2/2007

The Use of Name and Likeness of an Individual in a Computer Game, Pravna praksa no. 18/2006

The Subject and Legal Nature of the Agreements on Commercial Appropriation of Personality, Podjetje in delo no. 5/2006

Telecommunication Laws in Europe, Tottel Publishing, 2005 (co-author of the chapter on Slovenia)

Lectures and presentations:

The effect of energy price increases on contractual relationships, Forum Energy and Law '21, Ljubljana, 11 November 2021

Legal Challenges of Ownership of Electricity Storage Facilities, webinar, Center of Energy Efficient Solutions, 8 December 2020

Damages in international arbitration, Joint UNCITRAL-LAC Conference on Dispute Settlement, Ljubljana, 9. 4. 2019

Role of Arbitral Tribunals in Combatting Economic Crime in International Arbitration – Burden and standard of proof, Joint UNCITRAL-LAC Conference on Dispute Resolution, Ljubljana, 20. 3. 2018

School of civil procedure – amendment ZPP-E to the Civil Procedure Act, Odvetniška akademija, 20. 6. 2017

Cloud Computing – Contractual Issues: IBA Balkan Legal Forum, Vienna, 26.–27. 6. 2014

Legal Protection of Databases – Selected Legal Aspects: Seminar Law in Information Society, Institute for Comparative Law at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana, Ljubljana, 12. 6. 2014

Legal Protection of Databases: XII. Days of Civil and Commercial Law, Institute for Comparative Law at the Faculty of Law in Ljubljana, Portorož, 10.–11. 4. 2014

Experience

Managing Partner at Jadek & Pensa (since 2023)

Senior Partner at Jadek & Pensa (since 2023)

Managing Partner at Jadek & Pensa (2017–2020)

Head of Dispute Resolution Unit at Jadek & Pensa (2015-2022)

Partner at Jadek & Pensa (2006-2022)

Associate at Jadek & Pensa (2004-2006)

Judicial Trainee at Ljubljana Higher Court (2001–2003)

Languages Spoken

English

German

Serbian

Croatian

Education