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Zita Tihanyi

partner · Gárdos Mosonyi Tomori Law Office

HungaryBanking & Finance, Regulatory & ComplianceHungarian, English

About

Zita Tihanyi is a partner at Gárdos Mosonyi Tomori Law Office, having joined the firm in 2022. She is a former Chief Legal Counsel and Managing Director at Raiffeisen Bank where she established and ran the Compliance Department and headed data protection, complaint management and customer protection; she advises banks and financial institutions on regulatory matters and transactions and serves as an arbitrator at the Money and Capital Market Section of the Court of Arbitration attached to the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Practice areas

Banking & FinanceRegulatory & ComplianceData Protection & PrivacyFinancial ServicesArbitrationConsumer Protection

Office

Expertise

Banking & financial institutionsRegulatory compliance and public affairsCompliance managementData protection and privacyCustomer/consumer protectionMoney and capital markets arbitration

Education

  • J.D., ELTE Budapest, 1995 (summa cum laude)
  • Studies at University of Oxford, 1993
  • Studies at Uppsala University, 1994
  • Postgraduate degree in Banking Law, ELTE Budapest, 1998
  • Postgraduate Diploma in Real Estate Assessment, BME Budapest, 2001
  • Postgraduate degree in EU Law, ELTE Budapest, 2005
  • Postgraduate degree in Wine Law, University of Bordeaux, 2011

Admissions

  • Budapest Bar Association

Languages

HungarianEnglish