VJT & Partners

Founded in 2010, VJT & Partners is an independent Hungarian law firm based in Budapest with expertise across multiple practice areas and ranked by leading international legal directories.

The firm serves Fortune 1000 companies, large multinational conglomerates as well as leading Hungarian companies. Besides providing domestic law advice in local and cross-border matters, the firm often acts as lead counsel in multi-jurisdictional matters in the Central Eastern European region organising one-stop shop legal service for clients.

While VJT & Partners is independent, it is connected worldwide through various referral and best friend foreign law firms that are excellent in their own jurisdictions.

Main areas of practice
Commercial, corporate and M&A : VJT & Partners’ commercial, corporate and M&A team specialises in advising on M&A, private equity and venture capital transactions and on complex corporate matters. Members of the team have over 25 years’ experience in leading both domestic and multi-jurisdictional deals and in advising on the creation of joint ventures, across a wide variety of industries. They have unique experience in corporate disputes, which includes representation at shareholders’ meetings and before courts. VJT & Partners’ M&A advisory receives strong cross-practice support from the firm’s competition law, employment law, data protection and IP law experts.
Head of the team: János Tamás Varga and András Lovretity
Email: [email protected]; [email protected]

TMT / data protection: VJT & Partners is expert in advising on TMT cases and specialises in digital matters. The firm regularly advises on hot digital issues such as AI, IoT or Big Data and has substantial experience in reviewing digital products for Fortune 500 IT companies.

VJT & Partners has longstanding and in-depth expertise of data protection of key industry sectors going back to pre-GDPR. Their professional support includes resolving various privacy issues from niche challenges through complex GDPR audit projects to legal representation of clients before the Hungarian Data Protection Authority and courts. They won the Wolters Kluwer award “Best data protection team” in 2018 and 2019.
Head of the team: János Tamás Varga and Endre Várady
Email: [email protected]; [email protected]

Employment: VJT & Partners’ employment practice specialises in contentious and non-contentious labour matters and has been advising local and multinational employers, as well as executive employees for over a decade. The team advises on employment litigations, which includes representation before the Supreme Court, TUPE matters, employment agreements and terminations, employer policies, internal investigations and disciplinary measures. VJT & Partners’ senior employment expert Zoltán Csernus is member of the Board of the European Employment Lawyers Association (EELA).
Head of the team: János Tamás Varga and Zoltán Csernus
Email: [email protected]; [email protected]

Competition / antitrust and regulatory matters: VJT & Partners is expert on both non-contentious and contentious competition matters. The firm’s competition expertise includes advice on agreements restricting competition, cases of abuse of dominant position, cartel matters, unfair commercial practices and consumer protection as well as advisory on and representation in merger control procedures. The head of VJT & Partners’ competition practice Andrea Belényi worked for over a decade at the Hungarian Competition Authority, where she held executive position for several years.

The team has vast experience in a broad scale of other regulated areas, such as insurance and health care/pharma, and other areas in general that require liaising with authorities. In addition to general legal advice, the team assists businesses in internal audits, in-house trainings, representation before regulators, litigations and whichever, which need level-headed legal evaluation.
Head of the team: Andrea Belényi
Email: [email protected]

Dispute resolution: VJT & Partners’ dispute resolution practice specialises in employment, insurance, commercial and corporate disputes both before state and arbitration court, as well as in procedures before the registry court initiated against corporate actions. The firm’s dispute resolution team includes civil law university professor and highly regarded arbitrator Attila Menyhárd.
Head of the team: András Lovretity and Zoltán Csernus
Email: [email protected]; [email protected]

Intellectual property: VJT & Partners is an experienced adviser in various areas of IP law, including trademarks, software and copyright, and specialises in digital IP matters, advising Fortune 500 IT companies.
Head of the team: Endre Várady
Email: [email protected]

Practice areas

• Corporate and M&A
• Employment
• Digital
• Dispute resolution
• Commercial contracts
• Competition
• Data protection
• Banking, insurance, investments
• Immigration
• Intellectual property
• Private equity
• Regulatory and compliance
• Restructuring and insolvency
• Aviation