ABOUT US
Knowledge to us means that our partners and lawyers have outstanding, in-depth expertise in their field of law, with special focus on banking and finance, real estate, energy and transactional law. Our partners and the team have been involved in many of the market’s ground-breaking transactions and have gained significant experience working for international law firms over the last decade.
Skill means that our team is committed to deliver quality legal services to that enable our clients to adequately respond to the changing requirements of the various sectors of the economy.
Precision means that we focus on our clients and we provide them with precise, quality and innovative legal services best tailored to their needs.
EXPERTISE
BANKING AND CAPITAL MARKETS
Our experience covers:
- Capital market services;
- Project financing;
- Syndicated and club loans;
- Acquisition finance;
- Debt restructuring;
- Legal and regulatory compliance;
- Assistance for financial institutions;
- Insolvency proceedings;
- Fintech solutions.
Contact us
Luca Bokor
luca.bokor@erdospartners.com
Gábor Erdős
gabor.erdos@erdospartners.com
Energy Law
Our experience extends to the development and implementation of utility-scale renewable projects, questions concerning the development of the energy strategy of large real estate development and logistics companies as well as the provision of energy supply, including power plant solutions that reduce self-consumption and short and long term electricity procurement contracts that include the latest market-based structures (e.g. on-sight or corporate electricity purchase contracts).
We regularly represent domestic and foreign investors in the financing and development of domestic energy projects and acquisitions of industry players to support the preparation and conduct of such transactions. We also help our customers answer complex regulatory and sector-specific contractual questions, while monitoring the challenges posed by the latest market changes.
Our experience covers:
- Regulatory advice and licensing;
- Energy trading;
- Renewable energy projects and energy production;
- Material project agreements
- Project development;
- Acquisitions & financing transactions;
- Real estate matters;
- Bidding and RFPs
Contact us
Balázs Várszeghi
balazs.varszeghi@erdospartners.com
M&A and Corporate Law
Erdős ● Partners has an eminent and unique M&A and Corporate Law practice that is engaged in the full spectrum of public and private mergers and acquisitions and transactions across a variety of industries. Our clients include large and small Hungarian and international companies, private equity funds, financial institutions, financial advisors and other investors.
We provide exceptionally high-quality and expert services regardless of the structure of the transactions. We take full responsibility for ensuring that our clients receive an integrated, high-quality work product.
Our experience covers:
- Merger and acquisitions;
- Private equity;
- Corporate reorganisations, mergers and spin-offs;
- Foreign direct investment;
- Distressed and special situations;
- Corporate governance;
- IP / IT.
Our experience covers:
Zita Albert
zita.albert@erdospartners.com
Real Estate
Our experience covers:
- Real estate acquisitions and sales;
- Real estate and land regulatory matters such as licensing and land registry procedures;
- Real estate financing;
- Construction agreements;
- Leasing agreements;
- Real estate holding structures such as REITs or real estate funds.
Contact us
Gábor Erdős
gabor.erdos@erdospartners.com
Commercial law and Employment law
Our experience covers:
- Employment agreements;
- Managers and employees with special status;
- Employment disputes;
- Employee share schemes;
- Labour regulations;
- Termination, collective redundancies.
- Labour regulations;
- Electronic contracts;
- E-commerce;
- Commercial contracts;
- Corporate procurement.
Contact us
Luca Bokor
luca.bokor@erdospartners.com
Zita Albert
zita.albert@erdospartners.com
Competition law
Our experience covers:
- Competition due diligence of companies;
- Anti-competitive agreements;
- Competition assessment of contracts;
- Data protection;
- Consumer protection;
- Outsourcing contracts;
- Public procurement.
- Cartell
Contact us
Zita Albert
zita.albert@erdospartners.com
Litigation and dispute resolution
Our experience covers:
- Representation in civil, commercial and administrative matters;
- Representation and support in conciliation and arbitration proceedings;
- Representation in payment order proceedings, liquidation proceedings, bankruptcy proceedings or enforcement proceedings;
- Drafting of pleadings, drafting legal notice.
Contact us
Gábor Erdős
gabor.erdos@erdospartners.com
OUR TEAM
Education
1996 – 2004 Eötvös Lóránd University, Faculty of Political Sciences
2000 – 2001 University of Manchester, L.L.M in International Business Law
1995 – 2000 Eötvös Lóránd University, Faculty of Law
Languages
English
German
Recognitions
- Chamber’s Global 2020, Banking & Finance – Band 3 recommended lawyer;
- Gábor Erdős is respected by clients for his “prompt legal advice” while another interviewee highlights that “he goes into the depths of problems”. He has vast experience in financial regulatory work and real estate finance. He also advises on acquisition financing, especially in the retail sector;
- Legal 500.
Others
- Arbitrator – Court of Arbitration at the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Selected Experience
- JAdvising on the largest Hungarian bond issuance under the Growth Bond Programme;
- Advising on the establishment of the first Hungarian real estate investment trust.
Education
1998 – 2003 Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences
2001 – 2002 Paris London University of Salzburg, Faculty of Law
Languages
English
German
Recognitions
- Chamber’s Global 2020, Banking & Finance;
Luca Bokor enters the rankings following outstanding client feedback. Interviewees consider her “an excellent lawyer who is responsive and reliable”, adding that “she handles legal tasks with special care”. Bokor also receives praise for her “comprehensive background knowledge coupled with wide practical experience and outstanding communication skills”. She acts on financing and restructuring mandates in the energy and real estate industries; - Legal 500
Department head Luca Bokor is ably supported by managing partner Gábor Erdős and both are praised for their “knowledge, skill and precision”.
Selected Experience
- Advising the Hungarian subsidiary of a leading European group providing banking services with the financing of several of its solar power plant projects;
- Advising the Hungarian subsidiary of Central-Europe’s leading bank-group in connection with the refinancing of real estate projects of a major Hungarian real estate developer;
- Advising the market leading Hungarian energy drink producer in connection with its financing provided by a consortium of four major Hungarian banks.
Balázs Várszeghi is a founding partner of Erdős ● Partners. Balázs is a member of the Budapest Bar Association since 2011, and he has over 13 years of professional experience in energy law, transactions, and related legal matters. Before joining the law firm, Balázs has worked as lawyer in CMS Cameron McKenna, White&Case and Dentons, and Deloitte Legal Erdős and Partners, where he had led the firm’s Energy & Resources service line as partner associate. His practice mainly focuses on advising electricity and gas industry clients in connection with commercial and regulatory matters with special regard to renewable energy projects. Balázs also has extensive experience in general corporate law matters and M&A transactions.
Education
2001 – 2008 Eötvös Lóránd University, Faculty of Social Sciences
2006 – 2007 University of Hamburg and Rotterdam, L.L.M in Law and Economics
2000 – 2006 Eötvös Lóránd University, Faculty of Law
Languages
English
German
Spanish
Selected Experience
- Advising domestic and international investors regarding the acquisition and development of Hungarian solar electricity generation projects;
- Advising on energy trading matters and (private) energy networks;
- Advising on the sale and purchase of the shares of universal service gas and electricity supplier companies;
- Advising to a word leading energy company in relation to environmental and nuclear liability.
Zita has more than 19 years of experience in cross-border and domestic M&A transactions in wide range of business sectors, such as life sciences, telecommunication, energy, oil and gas, real estate, IT etc. She represented international and domestic companies, and number of private equity firms in M&A transactions in Hungary and also in the CEE. She participated in several cross-border transactions governed by English law.
Before joining Erdős Partners, she was one of the leaders of the M&A team of an international law firm, as a partner. Before that she had worked over 10 years in the M&A team of White&Case/Dentons.
She is recognized as highly regarded individual of the local Hungarian M&A market by all legal directories, Chambers Europe, Chambers Global, Legal 500 and IFLR.
Studies
2008: Admitted to the Budapest Bar,
1999 – 2004: Eötvös Lóránd Tudományegyetem, Facutly of Law (summa cum laude)
2002 – 2003: University of Leipzig, Law Faculty, Germany
Languages
English, German
Selected Experience
- Advising a world leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical testing, listed on the Paris stock exchange on its acquisitions in Hungary, and Romania;
- Advising one of the biggest oil and gas company in the CEE on its acquisition of a Slovakian IT business;
- Advising a leading US IT company, during the sale of its operations in Hungary;
- Advising one of the largest private healthcare provider in Romania, during the acquisition of a private clinic in Hungary;
- Advising the founders of various biotech companies during the sale of their companies to foreign strategic investors;
- Advising one of the biggest telecommunication company during its spin off as a result of which a special infrastructure operation company was created
Orsolya has over 19 years of experience in real estate law and related transactional advice. For 12 years Orsolya was a senior real estate lawyer in the Budapest office of CMS Camernon McKenna Nabarro Olswang and prior to that she was the legal advisor of Raiffeisen Real Estate Zrt, the real estate investment and development subsidiary of Raiffeisen Bank, where she was responsible for the subsidiary’s full range of legal tasks, including real estate investments. She started her legal career at Oppenheim Law Office.
Studies
2010 – 2011 University of Vienna, European and International Business Law
2001 – 2002 Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, Deák Ferenc Institute for Continuing Education, Specialist in European Law
1995 – 2000 Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences
Languages
English
German
Professional experience
- Legal advice on the Budapest office development acquisitions of one of the largest domestic office developers;
- Legal advice on office lease agreements for one of the largest Hungarian office developers;
- Legal advice on the alternative use of the real estate portfolio of a DIY chain exiting the Hungarian market and full involvement in the development of the office/retail function, legal support of the regulatory processes and legal advice on the lease agreements;
- Legal advice on the sale of three shopping centres in Budapest, including legal due diligence and the sale transaction;
- Legal advice on the preparation of design, construction and technical supervision contracts for Hungarian sports developments.
Mátyás has multiple years of experience in the field of banking and finance, capital markets, and banking regulatory law, as well as in corporate law and dispute resolution. Mátyás worked for a leading Hungarian IT/IP boutique firm for 3 years, in the dispute resolution group of Weil, Gotshal & Manges’ Budapest office for 2 years, and in the banking & finance group of Deloitte Legal’s Budapest office for 2 years.
Education
2017 – 2019 University of Pécs, Faculty of Business and Economics
2011 – 2016 University of Pécs, Faculty of Law
Languages
English
Selected Experience
- Advising the Hungarian subsidiary of Central-Europe’s leading bank-group in connection with the refinancing of real estate projects of a major Hungarian real estate developer;
- Advising one of Hungary’s most significant real estate developer in its bond issuance;
- Advising one of the world’s biggest bank in financial regulatory matters (PSD2, IPU establishment, capital requirements compliance, outsourcing and data protection);
- Advising a real estate investment and a venture capital fund and their managers in licensing and transactional matters.
Education
2005-2012 ELTE ÁJK, law
2013/2014 Université Paris V., Sustainable Development Law
Languages
English
French
German
Selected Experience
- Advising nearly 400 MW PV investment development and M&A
In the course of his work, he provided full international group-level competition law and commercial legal advice in English and Hungarian. He has successfully completed numerous company takeover transactions and merger procedures on national and on European level.
He successfully represents his clients in cartel and consumer protection proceedings before the Hungarian Competition Authority, and provides regular advice on abuse of dominance issues. Part of his daily work is the full conduct of compliance inspections and trainings.
Before joining Erdős Partners Lawyer Partnership, Péter worked at a multinational pharmaceutical company and at a law firm as legal intern.
Studies
2016 – 2020 Corvinus University Budapest, Faculty of Social Sciences and International Relations
2017 – 2022 Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Faculty of Law
Languages
English
At the XXXVI. OTDK she was awarded second place in the Agricultural and Environmental Law section.
Prior to finishing her studies, Felícia worked for a sole practitioner for 1.5 years where she dealt with real estate, expropriation and general civil law.
Studies
2018 – 2023 University of Szeged, Faculty of Law
Languages
English
RANKINGS
Horizons Alliance in CEE
Horizons Alliance is an alliance of independent law firms in the Central European region, providing fast and easy access to the CEE and BBA (Baltic, Balkan and Adriatic) regions, with a consistent practice and providing a high-quality background in cross-border regional legal transactions.
Horizons Alliance official website: https://horizons.legal
Our partner law firms:
Czech Republic – Rowan Legal: https://rowan.legal/en/
Slovakia – HKV Law Firm: https://www.hkv.sk/en/
Romania– Biriș Goran Legal & Tax: https://www.birisgoran.ro/
CONSULEGIS
Erdős ● Partners is a member of CONSULEGIS, a leading international network of high quality boutique law firms and other advisory firms.
CONSULEGIS has 85 offices in 40 countries around the globe and with this network our office can assist our clients in their planned or ongoing transactions in these countries.
CONSULEGIS is not just a legal network, it is a highly-effective solution to doing business across borders.
CONSULEGIS is ranked in The Legal 500 as one of the leading networks in the market. Our members are among the top legal firms in the world and include Chambers and Legal 500-ranked firms.
The website of CONSULEGIS: www.consulegis.com
CONTACTS
Erdős, Várszeghi, Bokor and Albert Lawyer Partnership
Bank Center
1054 Budapest,
Szabadság tér 7.
+36 20 575 3257
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