HUNGARY Law and Practice Contributed by: Tamás Éless, Sarolta Édua Szabó, Ulrike Rein and Zsolt Farkas, Oppenheim Law Firm
Oppenheim Law Firm has been providing legal ser - vices for more than three decades. It consists of more than 40 lawyers and legal experts, who advise on all areas of Hungarian business law. The firm’s attorneys provide legal expertise through a combination of spe - cialised practice groups and sector experience, such as manufacturing, construction, energy, utilities, au - tomotive, healthcare, media, IP/IT, capital markets, banking and financial services, and the services in - dustry. Oppenheim’s lawyers provide high-level legal
advice to a large variety of clients, including blue-chip companies, privately owned corporations, family businesses, start-up companies and private individu - als. The firm has a branch office in Vienna, Austria, and one of the most highly acclaimed litigation prac - tices in Hungary. Its dispute resolution lawyers regu - larly advise the largest Hungarian and global market players on a wide range of litigation, arbitration and other contentious matters.
Authors
Tamás Éless holds degrees from the TMC Asser Instituut, the University of London and the University of Glamorgan. He is a Professor of Law (Hon) at Eötvös Loránd University and was a co-lecturer in international
Ulrike Rein studied in Vienna, Austria, and graduated from the University of Vienna as a Doctor of Laws in 1984. She was a research assistant at the constitutional and administrative law department of the University of
commercial arbitration at Asser College Europe, The Hague, for over ten years. He was a member of the Codification Board for the new Hungarian Code of Civil Procedure, an associate at SBGK law firm, then partner at Réti Szegheõ law firm and head of the corporate disputes practice at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Hungary from 2003 until 2007. He is a founding partner of Oppenheim and head of its dispute resolution practice.
Vienna, a law clerk with various courts in Vienna, an associate and partner of Heller Löber Bahn and Partners, Vienna, the German-Austrian law firm Bruckhaus Westrick Heller Löber and the international law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, and a founding partner of Oppenheim.
Zsolt Farkas graduated from the Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Law in Budapest in 2006. He joined international law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Budapest in 2006 and has been an associate at
Sarolta Édua Szabó graduated from Eötvös Loránd University’s Faculty of Law in Budapest. She was a member of the István Bibó College of Law and received a Certificate of English Law from the University of Warwick. She
Oppenheim since 2007, where he has been a partner since 2023. He is the author of several articles in the field of civil procedural law and litigation, and was a member of the Working Group on the codification of the new Hungarian Code of Civil Procedure.
obtained a first grade diploma from the Austrian Arbitration Academy, and participated in the Private International Law Seminar of The Hague Academy of International Law. Sarolta joined Oppenheim in 2014 and is pursuing PhD studies at the Civil Procedure Law Department of Eötvös Loránd University, where she has also been a lecturer since 2018. She was also a visiting researcher at the University of Heidelberg.
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