Gábor Damjanovic
Hall of fameForgó, Damjanovic & Partners Law FirmSpecialists in M&A, the team at Forgó, Damjanovic & Partners Law Firm delivers expertise in advising insurers, financial institutions and major multinational corporates (such as Cargill) across such sectors as energy, agriculture, healthcare, construction, TMT, logistics, telecoms, food and pharmaceuticals involved in high-value, cross-border transactions. The practice is headed by managing partners Zoltán Forgó, who brings over 25 years of experience, and transactional expert Gábor Damjanovic, and who displays particular knowledge of gaming/gambling industry matters. Zsófia Füzi is notably skilled in due diligence processes.
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Testimonials
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‘The team did a great job managing a complex transaction under significant time pressure. The transaction went quite seamlessly, thanks to the team's expertise and diverse skill set.’
‘Team fosters entrepreneurship and provides excellent advise on legal topics, always including business view and tactics.’
‘Zsófia Füzi: excellent negotiator, very good command of English, assertive person, seasoned in transactions and corporate affairs. Zoltán Forgó: huge experience in M&A affairs, positive and self-assured, excellent English skills, outstanding negotiator.’
‘Great collaboration of the team, excellent availability and substitution if needed. Transparent and detailed billing, very customer-friendly.
‘Zoltán Forgó is a highly experienced M&A lawyer with deep knowledge and experience in cross-border deals.'
- Zsófia Füzi is a highly professional M&A lawyer, who could support the whole sell-side M&A process and manage stakeholders in any important legal matter.’
‘Exceptional M&A practice.’
‘Practice and experience, professionalism, accuracy, business approach.’
Key clients
- Talanx AG/HDI International AG
- Wallis Group
- Hungarian Insurance Life Co, Hungarian Insurance Non-Life Co.
- Perlen Packaging AG
- Reckitt Benckiser
- Cargill
- Onwers of Vitaplus
- Scan Global Logistics
- Futureal Group
- CHC Finance N.V
- Worms & Cie SCA
- Obton A/S
- the Benetton family
- Holding Soprema
- Pamplona Capital Management
- Groupe Briand
- the Allegis Group, Inc.
- the Agrokor Group
- China Telecom
- Unipetrol Group
- Grifols
- BH Group Europe
- CECONOMY/MSH Group
- an Israeli real estate developer investing in 3 hotels in Hungary
- Intersnack Group
- Triumph Motorcycles Ltd.
- Shandong Rainbow
- the owners of Partner Ltd.
- the owners of Pentolt Ltd.
- the Phosphea Group
- Tuttnauer Group
- KiK Textile and Non-Food Ltd
- Galvanize Nutrition
- Pacific Drilling S.A.
- Sanok Rubber
Work highlights
- Advised on the sale of majority shareholding interest by the Talanx Group in their Hungarian insurance subsidiaries, i.e. Hungarian Post Life Insurance Co. and Hungarian Post Non-Life Insurance Co. to the Hungarian State.
- Represented the Wallis Group and the Futureal Group, in their sale of FoxPost, a market-leading parcel delivery self service boxes operator in Hungary.
- Advised Obton A/S, a Denmark-based principal investment firm specialising in investments in solar, photovoltaic and wind turbine projects across Europe, with an investment exceeding EUR 1bn.
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Zsófia Füzi
Forgó, Damjanovic & Partners Law FirmPractice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Zoltán Forgó, Gábor Damjanovic