Tomislav Jakšić graduated at the beginning of 2009 from the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb. After that, he was employed as a trainee lawyer at the law firm “Babić i partneri”. Since mid-2009, he has been working at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, first as a research fellow at the Department of Commercial Law and Company Law. He spent four months at the Max-Plank-Institut für ausländisches und internationals Privatrecht in Hamburg, conducting scientific research. He received his Ph.D. in 2015 after defending his dissertation entitled “Ugovor o jamstvu” (Guarantee Agreement). In 2018, he passed the bar exam. He is one of the leaders of the student team of the University of Zagreb Faculty of Law at the “Willem C. Vis Moot” international competition in commercial arbitration. He has written several scientific and professional papers in the field of commercial law and company law, with a special interest in the means of securing the fulfilment of obligations and capital market law.