HUNGARY TRENDS AND DEVELOPMENTS Contributed by: Pál Szabó, Barnabás Simon, Eszter Katona, Ádám Simon, Mihály Harcos, Karim Laribi, Gábor Kutai and István Szalay-Csala, Bird & Bird
Eszter Katona is a consultant in the corporate/M&A team at Bird & Bird’s Budapest office, where she focuses on M&A transactions and other corporate matters. She also has significant experience in energy law.
Karim Laribi is the head of the employment team and a member of the dispute resolution team at Bird & Bird’s Budapest office. He advises on a wide range of general and M&A- related employment matters, as well
Since starting her career, Eszter has advised a variety of leading Hungarian and international companies across a variety of sectors including energy, finance, telecommunications and retail. She has particular experience in advising clients on complex multi-phase group restructurings. In the area of M&A, she has been involved in co-ordinating and conducting legal due diligences, drafting and negotiating transaction documents, and managing signing and closing proceedings.
as employment litigation and other commercial disputes. Since joining the firm in 2016, he has gained extensive experience handling complex employment issues, including reorganisations and outsourcing projects, terminations, cross-border employment matters, and the employment aspects of M&A transactions. He also has substantial experience in dispute resolution, covering both employment and complex commercial litigation. Gábor Kutai is a senior associate in the competition and EU team at Bird & Bird’s Budapest office, providing a full range of competition law services at both the Hungarian and EU levels. He has over 10 years of experience advising clients on Hungarian and EU competition law, including cartel investigations, abuse of dominance cases, and comparative advertising and consumer protection matters before the Hungarian Competition Authority. He also has extensive experience in complex domestic and cross-border merger clearance procedures under the Hungarian merger control regime and the EU Merger Regulation. Over the years, he has built significant expertise in competition law litigation, state aid matters, and foreign subsidy regulation.
Ádám Simon is a counsel in the data protection and TMT teams at Bird & Bird’s Budapest office, where he also co-heads the TMT practice. He advises businesses on legal issues relating to information technology and
has developed particular experience in assisting businesses with cross-border technology matters. He also regularly works with international colleagues, drawing on their experience and skills to offer excellent service to clients. He has advised on high value IT-related transactions, SaaS deals, complex cloud infrastructure contracts, and ERP agreements. He frequently provides advice on data protection matters, including cross-border data transfer structures.
Mihály Harcos is a senior associate leading the tax law group at Bird & Bird’s Budapest office. Beyond general tax law consulting, he focuses on tax planning for transactions and intra-group restructurings across
István Szalay-Csala is a junior associate in the corporate/M&A team at Bird & Bird’s Budapest office. He graduated from the Faculty of Law at Eötvös Loránd University with a specialisation in civil law in 2022.
multiple countries, as well as tax litigation. He has extensive experience advising local and international companies across a wide range of industries, including energy, IT, telecommunications, and real estate. He also regularly represents clients in disputes with tax authorities, from audits and administrative appeals to court proceedings, including appearances before the European Court of Justice and the Supreme Court of Hungary.
Since then, he has actively participated in numerous corporate restructurings and cross-border M&A transactions, notably co-ordinating complex legal due diligence processes involving multi-jurisdictional teams and drafting the associated transaction documents. He also advises creditors in liquidation proceedings and is involved in various litigation matters. István is expected to be admitted to the Bar in early 2026.
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