About Us
Our aim at Erdős | Katona is to serve our clients with Knowledge, Skill and Precision and we are committed to providing the highest quality legal services to our clients.
Knowledge to us means that our partners and lawyers have outstanding, in-depth expertise in their field of law, with special focus on banking and finance, real estate, energy, litigation and transactional law. Our partners and the team have been involved in many of the market’s ground-breaking transactions and have gained significant experience working for international law firms over the last decade.
Skill means that our dedicated team consists of expert professionals committed to deliver the broad scope of quality legal services our clients require to adequately respond to the changing shape of the various sectors of the economy. Our commitment, combined with our in-depth knowledge and experience in various industries allows us to deliver the highest level of service.
Precision means that we focus on our clients and we provide them with precise, quality and innovative legal services best tailored to their needs.
Expertise
Banking and Finance
The banking team of Erdos | Katona is a long time partner of leading Hungarian and international banks, financial institutions and market players. We assist our clients in their most important financing, -monetary and capital markets transactions and day-to-day legal challenges. Our lawyers are praised individually by independent rankings and also as a team amongst others for 'sound technical knowledge and precise approach'.
Our experience covers:
° Capital market services;
° Project financing;
° Syndicated and club loans;
° Acquisition finance;
° Debt restructuring;
° Legal and regulatory compliance;
° Assistance for financial institutions;
° Insolvency proceedings;
° Fintech solutions.
Contact us
Luca Bokor
luca.bokor@erdoskatona.com
Gábor Erdős
gabor.erdos@erdoskatona.com
György Katona
gyorgy.katona@erdoskatona.com
Energy Law
Evolving commercial and regulatory issues and the ever growing demand for energy has an impact on the way the energy industry operates. As energy becomes more vital in the growing global economy, it is essential that businesses receive appropriate advice to navigate the needs and requirements of the energy industry.
Our lawyers at Erdős | Katona have an in-depth understanding of the special risks that may arise in connection with energy projects and transactions, and the industry-specific issues that are unique to the industry. Our clients trust and depend on us to provide the value-added insight they need to make well-founded decisions leading to success.
Our transaction and energy law teams regularly represent domestic and foreign investors and financial institutions across the energy industry with pragmatic, actionable legal advice addressing the range of issues they confront in relation to projects and transactions in the energy industry, and in other relevant legal areas.
Our experience extends to questions concerning the development of the energy strategy of large real estate development and logistics companies as well as the provision of energy supply, including power plant solutions that reduce self-consumption and electricity purchase contracts that include the latest market-based structures (e.g. on-sight or corporate electricity purchase contracts).
We regularly represent domestic and foreign investors in the financing and development of domestic energy projects and acquisitions of industry players to support the preparation and conduct of such transactions. We also help our customers answer complex regulatory and sector-specific contractual questions, while monitoring the challenges posed by the latest market changes.
Our experience covers:
° Regulatory advice and licensing;
° Energy trading;
° Renewable energy projects and energy production;
° Material project agreements
° Project development;
° Acquisitions & financing transactions;
° Real estate matters;
° Bidding and RFPs
Contact us
Balázs Várszeghi
balazs.varszeghi@erdoskatona.com
Real Estate
Erdős | Katona’s real estate team knows and understands the trends and the most important aspects of the Hungarian real estate market and assists clients in buying, selling, financing, developing, leasing and constructing real estate. We provide practical and innovative legal solutions, identify business opportunities and manage risks with a keen eye towards achieving our clients’ business goals in relation to commercial and residential properties alike. Our team provides high-level legal advice on transactions of major importance in all areas of the real estate sector and has comprehensive experience in the implementation of logistics, industrial, residential, office and commercial real estate projects. We represent a wide range of clients including leading real estate developers, lenders, domestic and foreign investors, hotel operators and constructors.
Our experience covers:
° Real estate acquisitions and sales;
° Real estate and land regulatory matters such as licensing and land registry procedures;
° Real estate financing;
° Construction agreements;
° Leasing agreements;
° Real estate holding structures such as REITs or real estate funds.
Litigation and Dispute Resolution
Erdős | Katona’s litigation and dispute resolution practice is widely recognized and appreciated for the ability to handle our clients’ most critical legal disputes with the utmost professionalism. We have handled and have succesfully argued some of the largest and most high-profile cases of the recent years in banking and real estate sectors.
Our team of litigators includes former judges, arbitrators and lawyers having profound knowledge and court experience combined with the utmost determination to win.
Our experience covers:
° Representation before lawsuit;
° Alternative dispute resolution before domestic and international forums;
° Mediation;
° Litigation before domestic and non-domestic courts.
Contact us
György Katona
gyorgy.katona@erdoskatona.com
Transactions
Erdős | Katona has an eminent and unique transactional practice that is engaged in the full spectrum of public and private mergers and acquisitions and transactions across a variety of industries. Our clients include large and small Hungarian and international companies, private equity funds, financial institutions, financial advisors and other investors.
We provide exceptionally high-quality and expert services regardless of the structure of the transactions. We take full responsibility for ensuring that our clients receive an integrated, high-quality work product.
Our experience covers:
° Merger and acquisitions;
° Private equity;
° Corporate reorganisations, mergers and spin-offs;
° Foreign direct investment;
° Distressed and special situations;
° Corporate governance;
° IP / IT;
° Competition law.
Commercial law and Employment law
Erdős | Katona’s commercial & employment group provides legal advice to clients in relation to general employment law matters as well as industry or sector related specific issues, such as financial sector employment law, compensation and capacity planning.
Our experience covers:
° Employment agreements;
° Employment disputes;
° Work councils, labour unions;
° Employee share schemes;
° Fit and proper policies;
° Recruiting;
° Internal HR rules procedures;
° Outplacement;
° Termination, collective redundancies.
Our commercial practice also provides general and sector/industry specific legal services, with special focus on digital banking, financial consumer protection, privacy law, and financial product development.
Our experience covers:
° Data protection;
° PSD2 and digital banking;
° Consumer protection;
° E-contracting;
° E-commerce;
° Outsourcing agreements;
° Commercial agreements;
° Public procurement.
Team
Gábor Erdős
Gábor Erdős is a founding partner and the managing partner of the law firm. With more than 19 years of experience his main focus areas are banking and finance, real estate law and transactional services.
Gábor Erdős
Gábor Erdős is a founding partner and the managing partner of the law firm. With more than 19 years of experience his main focus areas are banking and finance, real estate law and transactional services. Gábor was the managing partner of the Budapest office of Deloitte Legal for 7 years, and before that he led the banking and real estate practice groups of Faludi Wolf Theiss Attorneys at Law and worked as an attorney at Martonyi és Kajtár Baker and McKenzie Attorneys at Law.
Education
1996 – 2004 Eötvös Lóránd University, Faculty of Political Sciences
2000 – 2001 University of Manchester, L.L.M in International Business Law
1995 – 2000 Eötvös Lóránd University, Faculty of Law
Languages
English
German
Recognitions
° Chamber’s Global 2020, Banking & Finance – Band 3 recommended lawyer;
° Gábor Erdős is respected by clients for his "prompt legal advice" while another interviewee highlights that "he goes into the depths of problems". He has vast experience in financial regulatory work and real estate finance. He also advises on acquisition financing, especially in the retail sector;
° Legal 500
Department head Luca Bokor is ably supported by managing partner Gabor Erdős and both are praised for their "sound technical knowledge and precise approach".
Others
° Arbitrator – Court of Arbitration at the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Selected Experience
° Advising on the largest Hungarian bond issuance under the Growth Bond Programme;
° Advising on the establishment of the first Hungarian real estate investment trust.
György Katona
György Katona is a founding partner and the managing partner of the law firm. Previously he was at leading Hungarian banks and law firms, where he was a senior associate of the banking and finance practice group.
György Katona
György Katona is a founding partner and the co-managing partner of the law firm. Previously he was at leading Hungarian banks and law firms, where he was a senior associate of the banking and finance practice group. György has expertise in projects, real estate, acquisition, and asset finance matters as well as in the areas of derivatives. He has been involved in many of the market’s ground-breaking legal disputes arising from financing transactions trialed successfully for banks over the last decade. He secured for his clients nearly one Billion euros in litigation cases and arbitration disputes.
Education
° Central European University - Master of International Business Law (LL.M.)
° University of Miskolc (Doctor of Juridical Science)
Languages
° English
Recognitions
° IFLR1000 – "Selected Leading Lawyer" (2014 - )
Selected Experience
° Projects, real estate, acquisition, asset finance matters and derivatives;
° Advising clients in market’s ground-breaking legal disputes relating to financing transactions;
° Advising investors relating to real estate developments and acquisitions.
Luca Bokor
Luca Bokor is a founding partner of the law firm. Luca has more than 15 years of experience in the field of banking and finance and banking regulatory law.
Luca Bokor
Luca Bokor is a founding partner of the law firm. Luca has more than 15 years of experience in the field of banking and finance and banking regulatory law. For 3 years she led the banking and finance practice group of Deloitte Legal in Budapest. Before that she worked in Banking and Finance and Restructuring Group in the Budapest office of Dentons as well as in the Budapest, Brussels and London offices of another major US law firm.
Education
1998 – 2003 Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences
2001 – 2002 Paris London University of Salzburg, Faculty of Law
Languages
English
German
Recognitions
° Chamber’s Global 2020, Banking & Finance;
Luca Bokor enters the rankings following outstanding client feedback. Interviewees consider her "an excellent lawyer who is responsive and reliable", adding that "she handles legal tasks with special care". Bokor also receives praise for her "comprehensive background knowledge coupled with wide practical experience and outstanding communication skills". She acts on financing and restructuring mandates in the energy and real estate industries;
° Legal 500
Department head Luca Bokor is ably supported by managing partner Gábor Erdős and both are praised for their "knowledge, skill and precision".
Selected Experience
° Advising the Hungarian subsidiary of a leading European group providing banking services with the financing of several of its solar power plant projects;
° Advising the Hungarian subsidiary of Central-Europe’s leading bank-group in connection with the refinancing of real estate projects of a major Hungarian real estate developer;
° Advising the market leading Hungarian energy drink producer in connection with its financing provided by a consortium of four major Hungarian banks.
Balázs Várszeghi
Balázs Várszeghi is a founding partner of Erdős | Katona. Balázs is a member of the Budapest Bar Association since 2011, and he has over 13 years of professional experience in energy law, transactions, and related legal matters.
Balázs Várszeghi
Balázs Várszeghi is a founding partner of Erdős | Katona. Balázs is a member of the Budapest Bar Association since 2011, and he has over 13 years of professional experience in energy law, transactions, and related legal matters. Before joining the law firm, Balázs has worked as lawyer in CMS Cameron McKenna, White&Case and Dentons, and Deloitte Legal Erdős and Partners, where he had led the firm’s Energy & Resources service line as partner associate. His practice mainly focuses on advising electricity and gas industry clients in connection with commercial and regulatory matters with special regard to renewable energy projects. Balázs also has extensive experience in general corporate law matters and M&A transactions.
Education
2001 – 2008 Eötvös Lóránd University, Faculty of Social Sciences
2006 – 2007 University of Hamburg and Rotterdam, L.L.M in Law and Economics
2000 – 2006 Eötvös Lóránd University, Faculty of Law
Languages
English
German
Spanish
Selected Experience
° Advising domestic and international investors regarding the acquisition and development of Hungarian solar electricity generation projects;
° Advising on energy trading matters and (private) energy networks;
° Advising on the sale and purchase of the shares of universal service gas and electricity supplier companies;
° Advising to a word leading energy company in relation to environmental and nuclear liability.
Tamás Filipszky
Tamás joined the firm in August 2022. He specialises primarily in M&A and corporate matters, capital markets transactions and banking and finance. (...)
Tamás Filipszky
Tamás joined the firm in August 2022. He specialises primarily in M&A and corporate matters, capital markets transactions and banking and finance. He has gained experience also in financial regulatory matters and private equity transactions.
Education
2008 – 2009 King’s College London University
2002 – 2005 Corvinus University Budapest
2000 – 2002 Pázmány Péter Catholic University Faculty of Law and Political Sciences Deák Ferenc Postgraduate Institute
1996 – 2001 Pázmány Péter Catholic University Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, Masters Degree in Banking Law
Languages
English
Turkish
Italian
Selected Experience
° Advising a Hungarian client on the acquisition of a large shareholding in a listed company and the approval for the acquisition of a qualifying holding in an insurance company
° Advising a major Hungarian asset manager on the acquisition of a specialist healthcare service provider group (transaction structuring, due diligence, drafting and running the transaction documents, completion and post-completion matters)
° Advising a US group on a project financing syndicated credit facility
° Advising a major Hungarian banking group on a business and asset transfer transaction
° Advising a major Hungarian oil company on a cross-border transaction involving the acquisition of two retail energy companies
° Advising a Hungarian mortgage bank on the annual updates of its guaranteed Euro Mortgage Securities programme (including advice on English law governed programme documents) and issuances and supplements under that programme
Sándor Csordás
Sándor Csordás is a senior associate in the litigation group of the firm. After graduation Sándor gained professional experience as a court clerk and as a court secretary, where he obtained in-depth theoretical knowledge (...)
Sándor Csordás
Sándor Csordás is a senior associate in the litigation group of the firm. After graduation Sándor gained professional experience as a court clerk and as a court secretary, where he obtained in-depth theoretical knowledge and comprehensive practical skills in civil, criminal, employment and administrative cases in first and second instance. He also worked in the central administration of the Hungarian judicial system at the National Office for the Judiciary.
Education
2008 – 2014 Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences
Languages
English
Spanish
Selected Experience
° Advising and representing Hungarian investors in a HUF 1 bn court litigation on title claims relating to a state of the art commercial property in Budapest, Hungary;
° Advising and representing a Hungarian investor in an administrative court litigation in relation to the permitting issues of a HUF 6 bn commercial property development.
Mátyás Környei
Mátyás has multiple years of experience in the field of banking and finance, capital markets, and banking regulatory law, as well as in corporate law and dispute resolution.
Mátyás Környei
Mátyás has multiple years of experience in the field of banking and finance, capital markets, and banking regulatory law, as well as in corporate law and dispute resolution. Mátyás worked for a leading Hungarian IT/IP boutique firm for 3 years, in the dispute resolution group of Weil, Gotshal & Manges’ Budapest office for 2 years, and in the banking & finance group of Deloitte Legal’s Budapest office for 2 years.
Education
2017 – 2019 University of Pécs, Faculty of Business and Economics
2011 – 2016 University of Pécs, Faculty of Law
Languages
English
Selected Experience
° Advising the Hungarian subsidiary of Central-Europe’s leading bank-group in connection with the refinancing of real estate projects of a major Hungarian real estate developer;
° Advising one of Hungary’s most significant real estate developer in its bond issuance;
° Advising one of the world’s biggest bank in financial regulatory matters (PSD2, IPU establishment, capital requirements compliance, outsourcing and data protection);
° Advising a real estate investment and a venture capital fund and their managers in licensing and transactional matters.
Kinga Máté
Kinga is an experienced professional with 8+ years experience in the energy industry, with a special focus on energy regulatory matters, M&A and EPC. (...)
Kinga Máté
Kinga is an experienced professional with 8+ years experience in the energy industry, with a special focus on energy regulatory matters, M&A and EPC. Before joining the firm, Kinga has gained valuable experience as associate of the energy team of top tier firm Wolf Theiss, and as leader of the in-house legal department of various national and multinational wind and solar comapanies. Kinga is also member of several relevant expert groups, such as Women in Energy.
Education
2005-2012 ELTE ÁJK, law
2013/2014 Université Paris V., Sustainable Development Law
Languages
English
French
German
Selected Experience
° Advising nearly 400 MW PV investment development and M&A
Szilárd Németh
Szilárd Németh has wide experience in real estate law, banking law and corporate law.
Szilárd Németh
Szilárd Németh has wide experience in real estate law, banking law and corporate law.
Szilárd obtained his law degree with summa cum laude from Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Law and studied at the Workgroup for Civil Law Studies at Bibó István College for Advanced Studies. During his time at university in 2016 he was awardee of the Scholarship of the Hungarian Republic.
Prior to joining Erdős | Katona, Szilárd also gained experience at market-leading international and domestic law firms.
Education
2017 – 2018 Ghent University, Faculty of Law
2015 – 2019 Bibó István College for Advanced Studies, Workgroup for Civil Law Studies
2014 – 2016 Comenius University, Faculty of Law
2014 – 2019 Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Law
Languages
English
Slovak
Czech
Selected Experience
° Advising clients in major industrial real estate transactions;
° Advising on acquisitions and project developments;
° Syndicated and other loan financing.
Réka Deák
Réka Deák is a junior associate of the law firm since November 2020. Réka obtained her law degree with summa cum laude from University of Szeged Faculty of Law, during her studies Réka was also an intern in a law firm in Munich.
Réka Deák
Réka Deák is a junior associate of the law firm since November 2020. Réka obtained her law degree with summa cum laude from University of Szeged Faculty of Law, during her studies Réka was also an intern in a law firm in Munich. Prior to joining Erdős | Katona, Réka also gained experience at market-leading international law firms as a trainee and a junior associate, in the fields of corporate and labor law. Réka is involved in several projects and transactions, besides drafting various contracts and corporate documents, her main tasks include advising national and international companies.
Education
2016 – 2017 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Faculty of Law
2013 – 2019 University of Szeged, Faculty of Law
Languages
English
German
Spanish
Richárd Romsics
Richárd obtained his law degree with summa cum laude from Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Law and studied civil law at Bibó István College for Advanced Studies.
Richárd Romsics
Richárd obtained his law degree with summa cum laude from Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Law and studied civil law at Bibó István College for Advanced Studies.
Prior to joining Erdős | Katona, Richárd also gained experience at market-leading international and domestic law firms.
Education
2016 Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Direito
2013 – 2018 ELTE Bibó István College for Advanced Studies
2013 – 2018 Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Law
Languages
English
German
Selected Experience
° Advising clients in syndicated and other loan financings;
° Advising domestic companies in their bond issuances;
° Advising banks in financial regulatory matters
Linda Kiss
Linda Kiss
Dóra Csaba
Dóra Csaba
As an NGL Symbio Partner Firm
NGL Symbio is an alliance of independent local law firms integrated at the service level – where it matters most for our clients. As a solid regional player in Central Eastern Europe (CEE) with strong ties to Baltics, Balkans & Adriatics (BBA), we offer fast and easy access to diversified regions with consistent practice and quality support wherever our clients need it.
NGL Symbio official website: https://www.nglsymbio.com/
Our partner law firms:
- Poland – NGL Legal: https://www.ngllegal.com/
- Czech Republic – Rowan Legal: https://rowan.legal/en/
- Slovakia – HKV Law Firm: https://www.hkv.sk/en/
- Romania – Biris Goran Legal & Tax: https://www.birisgoran.ro/
What makes us unique:
- Consistent practice – We are one team built upon the same values and sharing the same culture.
- Experience in cross-border projects – All members of our alliance have significant experience managing international projects and transactions obtained at international law firms or BigFour companies at the senior managerial level.
- Unique approach to team integration – Our teams collaborate internationally not because they were instructed to but because they have mutual invested interest in doing so. This difference in approach allows for greater commitment, better solutions and more extensive knowledge exchange. Simply put: we work together because we want to, not because we are obliged to.
- Shared know-how – We learn from each other, share best practices, and strive to improve ourselves every day.
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