János Tamás Varga is the founder and managing partner of VJT & Partners. He developed real expertise and experience across a wide range of practices, transactions and legal matters with cross-border elements over the last 25 years.
As an M&A specialist, he advises on international private equity, venture capital and strategic investments in Hungarian companies. Major industries of his activity include business services, communications, software development, information technology, manufacturing, consumer goods, real estate, financial sector, online media, healthcare and biotechnology.
He also co-leads the firm’s Digital practice. He has advised market leading global digital services businesses on their Hungarian projects, IT outsourcing providers on their projects in the financial services, telecommunications, energy and utility industries, and he also advises leading financial services providers as customers of BPO services.
Founder and managing partner of VJT & Partners. Admitted to Budapest Bar Association in 1997.
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TMT
Google is a standout client for the dedicated TMT practice at VJT & Partners, and the team advises a growing list of such key sector players on the full range of TMT matters, as well as related M&A, IP and commercial issues. János Tamás Varga and Endre Várady jointly leads the team; the former is noted for assisting ITO services providers with their Hungarian projects, while the latter provides data protection and digitalisation expertise. Andrea Belényi brings nearly 20 years’ experience in regulatory matters to the group. Eszter Vezse has a wealth of knowledge in emerging technologies. AI expert Attila Menyhárt joined the team from Oppenheim Ugyvedi Iroda in February 2023.
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Testimonials
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‘Unique expertise with all the legal issues related to online services, excellent understanding of how online platforms and services work, together with the related legal risks and issues to be resolved.’
‘Andrea Belényi is super responsive to client inquiries and has a deep understanding of the operational and economic perspective of the clients. Endre Várady has an excellent understanding of data protection and other TMT legal issues and has an outstanding capability to provide legal analysis of complex and novel legal issues.’
‘Superb team, it delivers value to our tech business projects. VJT & Partners stand above the rest with their inspiring leadership, advisory mindset, commitment to high-quality work and client-driven approach. With their innovative thinking, they can always find the right solutions from both M&A and technology perspective.’
‘János Tamás Varga has decades of experience in technology transactions. He is a tough, but flexible negotiator. He is very good in seeing the “big picture”. János fully understands the operation of tech products, which is not typical in the Hungarian legal market.'
'Endre Várady is very practical and knowledgeable. He has a very good mindset for tech regulatory matters. Andrea Belényi is very friendly, practical and full of common sense.’
'VJT & Partners provides outstanding services in more complex contractual areas. Their unique skills are accuracy and understanding of business logic.'
'Excellent team. It is very good to work with them: clear communication and always flexible and responsive approach. With their tech-savvy team, they are able to deliver us tailor-made solutions for any digital transformation challenges that may come up.'
'János Tamás Varga is a very experienced, pragmatic technology lawyer, with a unique ability to see the bigger picture of digitalisation. Endre Várady knows the digital law inside out. He always offers practical and business-oriented advice. Andrea Belényi has a strong client understanding and great process management ability.'
Key clients
- World Bank
- 4Life Direct
- Prohumán
- Simplexxy
Work highlights
- Advising Google on the launch of Bard.
- Advising Google on right-to-be-forgotten matters.
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Endre has substantial international experience in data protection, digital transformation and other information communication technology matters. Endre is active in localization of cross-border digital products. He is also the firm’s leading figure who handles cross-border TMT matters on a referral basis for reputable international law firms. He is the head of the VJT & Partners award-winning data protection team and the main developer of the legal content of the Adatsólyom, GDPR compliance software. His experience also includes drafting and negotiating cloud computing-based deals for both customers and suppliers in a range of industries, including IT and insurance.
Practice head
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János Tamás Varga, Endre Várady