Dentons

Ádám Kulcsár

Ádám Kulcsár is an associate in the Litigation and Commercial practice group of Dentons’ Budapest office. With nearly nine years of litigation practice, Clients appreciate his extensive experience in the major segments of the profession. Adam’s more recent practice focuses on advising clients in connection with commercial and civil law litigation matters, with substantial experience advising financial institutions and leading energy players.

András Peisch

András Peisch is a senior associate in Dentons’ Budapest office and a member of the office’s Public Policy and Regulation practice, and advises clients on corporate and commercial, data protection, intellectual property (IP) and life sciences matters. András has been seconded to two major clients during the past two years. He has particular experience in general corporate matters, advising businesses on a variety of commercial agreements, data protection compliance procedures, and has been working with companies operating in various sectors. András has earned the ANSI-accredited Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe (CIPP/E) credential through the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP).

Anita Horváth

Anita Horváth is the Head of the Hungarian Energy sector group, as well as being the Co-head of the Corporate and M&A practice group in Hungary. She has extensive experience in advising on complex domestic and cross-border M&A, joint ventures and private equity transactions as well as general corporate matters with a focus on the energy sector.

Anna Gerendás

Anna Gerendás is a senior associate in Dentons’ Budapest office. She focuses on property transactions and is experienced in corporate, real estate and M&A law. Anna’s experience includes advising clients on various M&A and asset transactions including public development agreements with municipalities, as well as assisting clients with the drafting and negotiation of design, construction and other satellite contracts. Anna was involved in many transactions involving the sale and purchase of real property portfolios, including real properties located in Hungary, both on the seller’s and the buyer’s sides. These transactions involved mainly retail and/or office premises in Budapest leased to multinational tenants, and certain transactions were concluded as asset deals while others were conducted as share deals.

Áron Károlyi-Szabó

Áron Károlyi-Szabó is a senior associate of the EU, Competition and Antitrust, Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) and Regulatory practice groups in Dentons’ Budapest office. His practice focuses mainly on EU and competition/antitrust law, as well as regulatory matters. He has extensive experience in cartel cases, internal investigations and data protection matters.

Attila Tatár

Attila Tatár is an associate and a member of the Energy and Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT) practice groups of Dentons’ Budapest office. He specializes in energy law, with a focus on advising renewable industry clients in connection with regulatory matters and other various commercial matters. Attila also has extensive experience in matters related to TMT, copyright and IT law.

Bence Böszörményi

Bence Böszörményi is an associate in the Banking and Finance practice group of Dentons’ Budapest office. His practice primarily focuses on corporate, acquisition and project financing matters, as well as restructurings and real estate financing.

Brigitta Kovács

Brigitta Kovács is an associate in the Corporate and M&A practice group of Dentons’ Budapest office. Her practice primarily focuses on general corporate and contract law, employment matters, as well as M&A including acquisitions and dispositions. She is also regularly involved in drafting/negotiating corporate (including virtual) PPAs.

Eszter Zádori

Eszter Zádori is a partner in Dentons’ Budapest office and a member of the Energy practice. She specializes in energy law, with a focus on the natural gas and electricity industry. Eszter also represents clients in general corporate and commercial matters, as well as in commercial arbitration cases and M&A transactions. With her 20 years of experience in the energy sector, Eszter has advised a number of major stakeholders on a wide range of matters and transactions, including the TSO in gas and electricity, natural gas producers, natural gas and electricity trading and sales companies, LPG distributors, as well as conventional and renewable power generation companies. Her expertise in the energy sector extends from advising on complex commercial, M&A and arbitration matters to providing guidance to clients on regulatory and compliance issues.

Frantisek Ordódy

Frantisek Ordódy is an associate in the M&A and Private Equity practice groups of Dentons’ Budapest office. His practice primarily focuses on M&A including acquisitions and dispositions, general corporate and employment matters.

Gábor Göndös

Gábor Göndös is an of counsel at Dentons’ Budapest office. He is a highly experienced legal professional with an impressive track record spanning over 20 years in the field of employment law. At Dentons, Gábor focuses on all areas of employment law including labor relations and collective labor law negotiations with unions and employee representatives, restructuring, redundancies and reductions in force, labor law litigation, transaction-related employment advice as well as day-to-day employment matters. With his extensive experience and in-depth expertise in labor law Gábor Göndös consistently delivers exceptional results to clients.

Gabriella Pataki

Gabriella Pataki is a senior associate in the Banking and Finance practice group in Dentons’ Budapest office. She has extensive experience in advising on matters relating to acquisition and project finance, financial restructuring and insolvency, as well as financial regulatory issues.

Gergely Stanka

Gergely Stanka is a Partner, and Head of the Dispute Resolution and Arbitration practice group at Dentons' Budapest Office. He is leading the largest dedicated litigation and arbitration team of the country at an International Law Firm. With a strong focus on court and arbitration proceedings, both locally and internationally, Gergely and his well-established team have achieved remarkable success in representing clients. Gergely Stanka’s expertise extends to a wide range of litigation areas, including commercial, banking, energy, administrative, tax-related, and labour law litigation cases. He is a permanent arbitrator in the money and capital market section at the Arbitration Court affiliated with the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and he has been listed as an arbitrator for several years. Partner Gergely Stanka regularly provides legal representation in civil litigation, non-contentious litigation, domestic and international arbitration and non-litigious proceedings on a daily basis to a variety of clients in a wide-range of sectors. He also regularly acts as an arbitrator in domestic arbitration cases. In the framework of these regular litigation and arbitration activities, Gergely was involved in several international and domestic dispute resolution proceedings, work-out cases, amicable settlements, analyses, and advisory services.

Henriett Fekete

Henriett Fekete is a senior associate and a member of the Energy practice group of Dentons’ Budapest office. Her practice mainly focuses on advising renewable industry clients in connection with regulatory matters and other various commercial matters in the energy sector.

István Réczicza

István Réczicza is Senior Partner at Dentons Budapest. István is a trusted strategic advisor to his clients who brings more than 30 years of experience. His practice focuses on highly complex mergers and acquisitions and regulatory matters. István has advised on many high profile acquisitions and landmark cases, including many matters related to foreign investment. István also has an outstanding reputation and extensive experience in regulated sectors such as energy, real estate, tourism and IT. He focuses on the areas of telecommunications, energy, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and intellectual property regulation, particularly as these relate to transactions involving foreign investment. In the course of representing clients in these fields, István has become one of Hungary's leading figures in the analysis of industry regulation and the drafting of proposed amendments in connection with such legislation. István has a significant track record advising on litigation and domestic and international arbitration matters, as well as white collar matters. Over the years he has represented numerous clients before the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), including recently the Republic of Hungary in a significant victory following an arbitration tribunal’s rejection of all claims brought by the plaintiff. He also represented a client in the first ever case brought before the Hungarian Energy Arbitration Court. Furthermore István has significant white collar experience, having conducted several internal corporate investigations. Widely recognized as a leading M&A lawyer, István has advised on a number of landmark transactions. For example, he advised a UK leading airport operator in the US$2.2 billion privatization of a Central European airport operator, in relation to the acquisition of the said airport operator by a Spanish construction group, and a newly formed entity in its sale of the airport operator's majority stake in the above mentioned Central European airport operator to a leading German construction company for €1.9 billion. István also advised the airport operator on the restructuring of approximately €1.6 billion of its debt. One of Hungary’s leading figures in the field of TMT regulation, István has advised the government and state agencies on issues including the revision of national communications and media legislation, and has also helped to prepare Hungary’s implementation of EU directives on electronic communications.

János Csáki

János Csáki is a senior associate in the Corporate/M&A, Private Equity and Energy practice groups of Dentons’ Budapest office. His practice mainly focuses on advising corporates, private equity firms, financial and strategic investors, family offices and founders on acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, and restructurings. While János’ practice tends to focus on general private M&A transactions in Hungary, his recent works include advising significant local and foreign market players acting in the renewables sector in connection with the due diligence and acquisitions of mid- to large-scale PV projects and other energy projects in Hungary.

Judit Kővári

Judit Kővári is a partner and head of the Real Estate practice group of Dentons’ Budapest office. She is one of Hungary’s leading real estate practitioners advising global and regional clients in a broad range of real estate transactions, including greenfield investments, infrastructure development, zoning and permitting issues, as well as construction matters and leases, in the office, retail and industrial real estate sectors. She is the legal advisor of major real estate investors and developers.

Kamran Pirani

Kamran Pirani is a dual, English and Canadian qualified solicitor in Dentons’ Corporate/M&A and Private Equity groups. Based in Budapest, Kamran advises corporates, private equity firms, sovereign wealth funds, infrastructure funds, financial sponsors, family offices, founders and corporate management teams on acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, restructurings and management incentive arrangements. Kamran’s practice tends to focus on private, English governed transactions in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and South-Eastern Europe (SEE).

László Fenyvesi

László Fenyvesi is an associate and member of the Dispute Resolution and Public Policy and Regulation practice groups of the Budapest office. His practice mainly focuses on litigation, international arbitration, and energy regulation. He also advises clients on M&A, joint ventures, and private equity transactions as well as general corporate matters.

Lilla Király

Lilla Király is of counsel and member of the Dispute Resolution practice group in Dentons’ Budapest office. Her practice primarily focuses on civil procedure cases, including Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) and court proceedings. She has extensive experience in securing and managing scientific project grants from Hungary and the EU. She received numerous scholarships from the EU to carry out research, teaching activities in the context of the Erasmus Mobility in EU Law and to organize and establish a network of higher education institutions.

Marcell Szőnyi

Marcell Szőnyi is a partner in Dentons’ Budapest office. He primarily focuses on the areas of real estate, corporate and financing transactional work, and commercial contracts. He has been involved in numerous acquisitions and disposals and high-value commercial contracts.

Mihály Czesznak

Mihály Czesznak is an associate and a member of the Dispute Resolution practice group of the Budapest office. His practice primarily focuses on advising clients in connection with administrative, commercial and civil law litigation matters, as well as complex international and domestic arbitration cases.

Rita Várnagy

Rita Várnagy is a senior associate in the Real Estate practice group of Dentons’ Budapest office. Her practice primarily focuses on general corporate, M&A and real estate matters. She has been assisting on various transactions relating to acquisitions and corporate restructuring processes.

Rob Irving

Rob Irving is an experienced M&A and private equity partner and co-head of Dentons’ Europe Corporate/M&A group. He has worked on landmark transactions throughout Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and South-Eastern Europe (SEE) as well as Turkey since 1991.

Sebastian Ishiguro

Sebastian Ishiguro is a New York law qualified senior associate in the M&A and Private Equity practice groups of Dentons’ Budapest office. He has experience in advising on complex domestic and cross-border matters.

Theodore S. Boone

Theodore S. Boone is Of Counsel in Dentons’ Budapest office. Ted is a practical and solution driven counsellor focusing on complex commercial transactions and corporate policy matters. Ted’s work has involved, among other areas, financial institutions, information technology, manufacturing, energy, entertainment, transport, consumer goods, telecom, media, real estate, biotechnology and services. In the course of his practice Ted draws on his extensive commercial and legal experience arising from previous leadership positions in the US and Europe at premier international law firms and one of the Big 4 and as a former President and Chair of the Board of Governors of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hungary.

Zsófia Marton

Zsófia Marton is an associate in the Litigation and Commercial practice group of Dentons’ Budapest office. She focuses the main part of her practice on primarily supporting companies in banking and finance, investment services and civil law–related litigation matters. Zsófia frequently advises financial institutions, insurance companies and private equity firms. She also advises clients on operating matters, regulatory issues, corporate matters and drafting finance and investment documentation.

Zsófia Lascsik

Zsófia Lascsik is an associate in the Real Estate practice group of Dentons’ Budapest office. She focuses on property transactions and is experienced in corporate and real estate law.

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