Our Team
Dr. Tamás BALÁZS Attorney-at-law, Managing Partner, Honorary Professor (Europass CV)
Domain: construction law, FIDIC-contracts, corporate law, law of real property, litigation and arbitration in high value lawsuits, labour law, immigration law;
Construction experience and publications
Education: Law Faculty of JATE Szeged University, 1983-1988; graduated with summa cum laude, 1988; Juris Doctor, admitted to the bar in 1991, member of the Budapest Bar. Postgraduate course on the „American Legal System” at the University of South Carolina, US 1989; special course on the „Legal system of the European Community” at the University of Trier, Germany, 1991; scholarship at „La Sapienza University”, Rome, Italy, 1989, 1990, 1991; course on „International Business and Financial Law” at the Academy of American and International Law, Dallas, US, 1992; courses in legal Russian, Saint-Petersburg 1984 and 1988. FIDIC-Contracts Seminar (Rome, 2011, Cornerstone Seminars); Honorary professor of Eötvös Loránd University (2019).
Other professional activities: associated professor at the Law Faculty of ELTE Budapest University; has about 40 professional publications, regular member of the Academy of American and International Law of Dallas since 1992; member at the Deutscher Anwaltverein since 1999 (a member of the section of construction law and of the group of international construction law); he has about 70 professional publications. He is a member of the Legal Committee of Hungarian Association of Real Estate Management. He takes part in writing studies and giving lectures in connection with EU-law. He is a member at the Arbitration Court of the Polish Chamber of Commerce (Warsaw). President of Eastern European Lawyers’ association, EAST LEGAL TEAM EEIG (2008-2012);
Languages: fluent in German, Italian, English, Russian, Spanish and Hungarian
Dr. László KOVÁTSITS Attorney-at-law, Partner
Domain: commercial law, corporate law, real estate law, media law, agricultural law, litigation and arbitration in high value lawsuits, law of bankruptcy and liquidation;
Education: Law Faculty of ELTE Budapest University, graduated with cum laude, 1993; Juris Doctor, admitted to the bar in 1996, member of the Budapest Bar. Legal studies at the Heidelberg Ruprecht Karl University, 1990;
Other professional activities: part-time professor at several Hungarian universities (Law Faculty of ELTE Budapest University, Széchenyi István College Győr, 1997-2005) He was the founding chancellor of Andrássy Gyula German Language University of Budapest, 2001-2002; the censor of the Hungarian Bar Exam Council since 2003, has had several publications published in periodicals;
Languages: fluent in German, Italian, English, Russian and Hungarian
Dr. Károly BAGÓCSI Attorney-at-law, LLM, Junior Partner
Domain: corporate law, energy law, environmental law, construction law, public procurement law, bankruptcy and liquidation
Education: Law Faculty of Eötvös Lóránd University (Budapest)
Languages: English, German and Hungarian
Dr. Ádám MILLEI Attorney-at-law
Domain: real estate law, construction law, commercial law, labour law, energy law, registration of food and pharmaceutical products;
Education: Law Faculty of Pázmány Péter University
Languages: English and Hungarian
Zita BALOGH Legal Assistant
Education: Law Faculty of Eötvös Lóránd University (Budapest), Panthéon-Assas Paris II University, Student
Languages: English, French, Russian and Hungarian
József SIMÓ Legal Assistant
Education: Law Faculty of Eötvös Lóránd University (Budapest), Student
Languages: English, German and Hungarian
Éva SÁNDOR Marketing Manager
Education: Eötvös Loránd University, English MA
Languages: English, Italian and Hungarian
Brigitta Zita GÖNCZI Office Manager
Education: Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Faculty of Humanities BA
Languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese and Hungarian
Georgina BALI Secretary
Education: Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary, Faculty of Humanities, English and Dutch MA
Languages: English, Dutch, Spanish and Hungarian
Cooperating Hungarian attorneys at law and advisors
Dr. Ferenc SUBA Attorney-at-law
Domain: cybersecurity, IT law, internet law, data protection, media law, communications law, EU law, nuclear energy;
Education: Law Faculty of ELTE Budapest University, 2000; Juris Doctor 2004, admitted to the bar in 2006, member of the Budapest Bar, state administration exams for public servants in Hungary 2002, stock brokerage exam in Hungary 2006, Magister Artium (majors: medieval and modern history, English literature), University of Heidelberg, Germany 1994;
Other professional activities: authoring the National Cybersecurity Strategy of Hungary and the National Energy Cybersecurity Strategy, expert at the National Council for the Coordination of Cybersecurity, ENISA – European Network Information Secuirity Agency vice-chair, head of regulation department at Prime Minister’s Office, Govt. Commissioner for ICT 2001-2002, head of regulation department at the Ministry of Informatics and Communications 2002-2004;
Languages: fluent in English, German, French, Russian, Italian, Spanish and Hungarian
Dr. Miklós NÉMETH Lawyer, real estate advisor, real estate transactions appraiser
Domain: Secretary General of the Hungarian Real Estate Manager Alliance (2003-),
Secretary General and Vice President of CEPI (European Real Estate Council) Real Estate Manager Section (2006-2011), President of Italian Department of Budapest Chamber of Commerce (2014-), Managing Director of ERMIKLOS Kft. (2008-)
Education: Law Faculty of Pázmány Péter University 2001, lawyer in the field of real estate transactions 2004
Languages: English, Italian, Russian and Hungarian
Dr. Dávid SZABÓ-STRAUSZ Attorney-at-law
Domain: corporate law, commercial law, health law, medical law;
Education: Law Faculty of Pázmány Péter University, graduated with summa cum laude 2003; Juris Doctor, admitted to the bar in 2007, member of the Budapest Bar. Budapest Corvinus University, economist, 2007;
Languages: English and Hungarian
Dr. Szilvia ACKERMANN Attorney-at-law
Domain: energy law, IT-law, law of data protection, copyright, software, e-commerce;
Education: Law Faculty of Pázmány Péter University, Juris Doctor, expert in the Law of Infocommunications, 2012, expert in Energy Law, 2014;
Languages: English and Hungarian
Dr. Márta KARÁDI Advisor
Domain: Russian and other CIS-country investments in Hungary, issues regarding food products, biology and agriculture;
Education: Lomonosov University Moscow;
Languages: Russian and Hungarian
Cooperating foreign attorneys at law from Central and Eastern Europe
We practically cooperate with numerous law firms and attorneys at law from all of the countries in Europe, the United States of America, the CIS-countries and other oversee and Asian countries. Below you can only find those Central and Eastern European law firms of which we have very strong cooperation with.
Andrzej MIKULSKI (Poland)
Mikulski & Partners
Cracow
Languages: Polish, German, English, Spanish and Russian
Sergei SOROKIN (Russia)
Moscow
Languages: Russian