HUNGARY Trends and Developments
Trends and Developments Contributed by: István Varga and Viktor Előd Cserép PROVARIS Varga & Partners PROVARIS Varga & Partners is a Hungarian independent law firm with 25 lawyers and an extensive international network advising a wide range of foreign clients and investors on mat- ters from a series of sectors. The firm’s lawyers are highly qualified experts with an outstanding business and academic background working in specialised teams in the fields of commercial law, dispute resolution, IP/IT, life sciences, pub- lic procurement, European and constitutional law, tourism and sports law. PROVARIS advises clients from all over the world, especially from the Anglo-Saxon and German legal traditions,
providing legal support for the daily operation of businesses and the management of large-scale international projects. The PROVARIS dispute resolution team represents foreign clients in litigation and arbitration proceedings involving pharmaceuticals, competition law, securities litigation, construction, production of machin- ery and sales of goods as well as complex cor- porate, contractual and tort claim matters. The firm has advised and represented clients in sev- eral significant and widely published preliminary ruling procedures before the Court of Justice of the European Union.
Authors
István Varga is the Chair Professor of the Department of Civil Procedure at ELTE Faculty of Law in Budapest and the managing partner of PROVARIS, heading its litigation and arbitration practice group. He was the author and editor of the new Hungarian Civil Procedure Code’s Expert Proposal and author of the new (2018) Rules of Proceedings of the Arbitration Court Attached to the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He has also been director of studies at The Hague Academy of International Law (2011–2012), an advisor to the second president of the Constitutional Court of Hungary (1998–2003), an arbitrator for numerous Hungarian and international arbitration courts, and counsel in international arbitrations and in high profile international litigations.
Viktor Előd Cserép is an associate at PROVARIS specialising in international and domestic arbitration and litigation. He has experience both as an assistant to arbitral
tribunals and as counsel in international arbitrations in several industry sectors including construction, manufacturing, and sales of goods, as well as providing ongoing legal support to large-scale international projects, primarily for enterprises from German-speaking countries. He is a member of several international arbitration organisations, the past first CEE Chair of Young ITA (Institute for Transnational Arbitration, 2021-2023), the drafter of the official English and German translations of the new (2018) Rules of Proceedings of the Arbitration Court Attached to the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and an external lecturer at ELTE Faculty of Law in Budapest.
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