Jelena advises clients in commercial and investment arbitrations, serving as both counsel and tribunal secretary in large-scale, complex, and often multi-jurisdictional proceedings conducted under a range of arbitration rules. She is admitted to the Paris Bar (2022) and the Serbian Bar (2019), and was educated in France, the United Kingdom, Serbia, and Spain.

Prior to joining Wordstone, Jelena worked in the arbitration team of a leading French law firm as well as two prominent Serbian law firms. She also completed internships at the World Trade Organization in Geneva and at a major international law firm in London.

Jelena is also active in the international arbitration community. She co-founded the Paris Investment Arbitration Group, a Paris-based initiative providing a forum for discussing curated issues in international investment law and arbitration. She is also a member of several prominent associations, including ICC Serbia, CFA40, and ArbCEE.

• Represented the Arab Republic of Egypt in HeidelbergCement AG and others. v. Arab Republic of Egypt (ICSID Case No. ARB/21/50).
• Represented the Arab Republic of Egypt in Gesenu S.p.A. v. Arab Republic of Egypt (ICSID Case No. ARB/20/45).
• Represented the Lebanese Republic in the annulment proceedings in Abed El Jaouni and Imperial Holding SAL v. Lebanese Republic (ICSID Case No. ARB/15/3).
• Represented real estate investors in BRIF TRES d.o.o. Beograd and BRIF-TC d.o.o. Beograd v. Republic of Serbia (ICSID Case No. ARB/20/12).
• Assisted in representing a Cypriot investor against an Eastern European state in an investor-State arbitration involving freezing of investor’s assets and fabrication of tax claims.
• Acted as tribunal secretary in an ICC arbitration, conducted in Spanish, involving Spanish and Panamanian entities, concerning a construction project in Panama.
• Acted as tribunal secretary in an ICC arbitration, conducted in Spanish and English, involving Cuban and Canadian parties, concerning beer production in Cuba.

University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Master professionnel Arbitrage et Droit du Commerce International, 2021 (French Government Scholar)

University of Cambridge, LL.M., 2017 (PEXIM Foundation and Cambridge Trust Scholar)

University of Belgrade, Bachelor of Laws, 2016

University of Deusto, Erasmus Exchange, 2014/15

Paris, France (Avocat à la Cour), 2022

Belgrade, Serbia (Advokat), 2019

English, French, Spanish and Serbian

• “Yugoslavia’s Membership ‘Succession’ to GATT and the WTO”, Revija Kopaoničke škole prirodnog prava, br. 1/2024 (English)
• “Decisión de la Corte de Apelación de París del 21 de febrero de 2023 en el caso Agarwal c. Uruguay”, Revista del Club Español e Iberoamericano del Arbitraje 50/2023 (Spanish)
• “What Next for Interpreting General Exceptions in International Investment Agreements? Canada’s Non-Disputing Party Submission in Eco Oro Minerals v. Colombia” (co-authored), in: Kluwer Arbitration Blog, 18 July 2020 (English)

The Best Lawyers in France™

• The Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in France™ (since 2023)

Speaker at “Young Approaches to Arbitration – Exposed, Hacked, or Stolen: When Arbitration Gets Messy”, ICC YAAF & Young Austrian Arbitration Practitioners (Vienna, 12 April 2025)

Teaching semester-long seminars (travaux dirigés) in “Introduction to Public International Law” at ESPOL – Université Catholique de Lille (Lille, 2024)

Co-teaching a summer school course on “International Investment Arbitration” at Université Paris Nanterre (Nanterre, 2024, 2025)

Co-teaching a session on “Commercial and Investment Arbitration” with students of the Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade (Belgrade, 23 December 2023)

Moot training sessions with Sciences Po Jessup and Vis Moot teams (Paris, 2023-2025)

Arbitrating Pre-Moots (White & Case, ICC Paris, Belgrade) and Vis Moot in Vienna

• Co-Founder of Paris Investment Arbitration Group
• CFA40, ICC YAAF, Young ITA, Young ICCA, LCIA YIAG
• Club Español e Iberoamericano del Arbitraje (CEIA)
• ArbCEE, Serbian Arbitration Association, ICC Serbia
• ICC Global Commercial Law and Practice Commission
• ICC Global Trade and Investment Commission
• Arbitral Women