VJT & Partners — Hungary

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Founded in 2010, VJT & Partners is an independent Hungarian law firm based in Budapest with expertise across multiple practice areas and ranked by leading international legal directories. The firm serves Fortune 1000 companies, large multinational conglomerates as well as leading Hungarian companies. Besides providing domestic law advice in local and cross-border matters, the firm often acts as lead counsel in multi-jurisdictional matters in the Central Eastern European region organising one-stop shop legal service for clients. While VJT & Partners is independent, it is connected worldwide through various referral and best friend foreign law firms that are excellent in their own jurisdictions. - Main areas of practice Commercial, Corporate and M&A : VJT & Partners’ commercial, corporate and M&A team specialises in advising on M&A, private equity and venture capital transactions and on complex corporate matters. Members of the team have over 25 years’ experience in leading both domestic and multi-jurisdictional deals and in advising on the creation of joint ventures, across a wide variety of industries. They have unique experience in corporate disputes, which includes representation at shareholders’ meetings and before courts. VJT & Partners’ M&A advisory receives strong cross-practice support from the firm’s competition law, employment law, data protection and IP law experts. - Head of the team: János Tamás Varga - Email: vargajt@vjt-partners.com TMT / data protection: VJT & Partners is expert in advising on TMT cases and specialises in digital matters. The firm regularly advises on hot digital issues such as AI, IoT or Big Data and has substantial experience in reviewing digital products for Fortune 500 IT companies. VJT & Partners has longstanding and in-depth expertise of data protection of key industry sectors going back to pre-GDPR. Their professional support includes resolving various privacy issues from niche challenges through complex GDPR audit projects to legal representation of clients before the Hungarian Data Protection Authority and courts. They won the Wolters Kluwer award “Best data protection team” in 2018 and 2019. - Head of the team: János Tamás Varga and Endre Várady - Email: vargajt@vjt-partners.com; varadye@vjt-partners.com Employment: VJT & Partners’ employment practice specialises in contentious and non-contentious labour matters and has been advising local and multinational employers, as well as executive employees for over a decade. The team advises on employment litigations, which includes representation before the Supreme Court, TUPE matters, employment agreements and terminations, employer policies, internal investigations and disciplinary measures. VJT & Partners’ senior employment expert Zoltán Csernus is member of the Board of the European Employment Lawyers Association (EELA). - Head of the team: János Tamás Varga and Zoltán Csernus - Email: vargajt@vjt-partners.com; csernusz@vjt-partners.com Competition / antitrust and regulatory matters: VJT & Partners is expert on both non-contentious and contentious competition matters. The firm’s competition expertise includes advice on agreements restricting competition, cases of abuse of dominant position, cartel matters, unfair commercial practices and consumer protection as well as advisory on and representation in merger control procedures. The head of VJT & Partners’ competition practice Andrea Belényi worked for over a decade at the Hungarian Competition Authority, where she held executive position for several years. The team has vast experience in a broad scale of other regulated areas, such as insurance and health care/pharma, and other areas in general that require liaising with authorities. In addition to general legal advice, the team assists businesses in internal audits, in-house trainings, representation before regulators, litigations and whichever, which need level-headed legal evaluation. - Head of the team: Andrea Belényi - Email: belenyia@vjt-partners.com German Desk: VJT & Partners’ German Desk is a dedicated platform for German-speaking clients investing or operating in Hungary and across Central and Eastern Europe, serving as a one-stop contact point for legal and tax advisory services for both SME and corporate clients from the DACH region. - Head of the German Desk: Máté Kakas - Email: kakasm@vjt-partners.com Dispute resolution: VJT & Partners’ dispute resolution practice specialises in employment, insurance, commercial and corporate disputes both before state and arbitration court, as well as in procedures before the registry court initiated against corporate actions. - Head of the team: Zoltán Csernus - Email: csernusz@vjt-partners.com Intellectual property: VJT & Partners is an experienced adviser in various areas of IP law, including trademarks, software and copyright, and specialises in digital IP matters, advising Fortune 500 IT companies. - Head of the team: Endre Várady - Email: varadye@vjt-partners.com - Practice areas - Corporate and M&A - Employment - Digital - Dispute resolution - Commercial contracts - Competition - Data protection - German Desk - Banking, insurance, investments - Immigration - Intellectual property - Private equity - Regulatory and compliance - Restructuring and insolvency ### Languages - Croatian - English - French - German - Hungarian - Serbian ### Memberships - International Bar Association - European Employment Lawyers Association - Hungarian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association - Hungarian Lawyers Association - Budapest Bar ### Staffing Figures - 11 Number of lawyers

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Adrienn N. Tóth

Adrienn joined VJT&Partners in 2024 as a member of the Compliance and Regulatory team. Calm, patient and dedicated, she is a special person who finds common ground with everyone. Adrienn has nearly 20 years of experience in competition law at the Competition Authority, where she has worked on many competition cases, on each of the investigative, the decision-making and the litigation side. · Competition

Andrea Belényi

Andrea Belényi leads VJT & Partners’ Regulatory & Compliance team and has been with the firm for nearly 10 years. She has more than 25 years of diverse professional experience and is a trusted adviser on complex regulatory, compliance and technology matters. Andrea is involved in a large number of the firm’s key client mandates and plays a leading role in many of its major compliance projects. Her experience includes senior work at the Hungarian Competition Authority, giving her strong insight into regulatory decision-making and enforcement practice. In addition to her work in more traditional areas such as competition law and data protection, she is increasingly focused on AI and other areas of law that are of growing importance to businesses today. She is valued for her broad expertise, practical approach and ability to manage sophisticated projects with consistency and sound judgment. In addition to leading the firm’s regulatory and compliance practice, she is deeply involved in the firm’s technology-related matters. · Regulatory & Compliance

Endre Várady

Endre has substantial international experience in data protection, digital transformation and other information communication technology matters. Endre is active in localization of cross-border digital products. He is also the firm’s leading figure who handles cross-border TMT matters on a referral basis for reputable international law firms. He is the head of the VJT & Partners award-winning data protection team and the main developer of the legal content of the Adatsólyom, GDPR compliance software. His experience also includes drafting and negotiating cloud computing-based deals for both customers and suppliers in a range of industries, including IT and insurance. · Data Protection

János Tamás Varga

János Tamás Varga is the founder and managing partner of VJT & Partners. He developed real expertise and experience across a wide range of practices, transactions and legal matters with cross-border elements over the last 26 years. As an M&A specialist, he advises on international private equity, venture capital and strategic investments in Hungarian companies. Major industries of his activity include business services, communications, software development, information technology, manufacturing, consumer goods, real estate, financial sector, online media, healthcare and biotechnology. He also co-leads the firm’s Digital practice. He has advised market leading global digital services businesses on their Hungarian projects, IT outsourcing providers on their projects in the financial services, telecommunications, energy and utility industries, and he also advises leading financial services providers as customers of BPO services. Founder and managing partner of VJT & Partners. Admitted to Budapest Bar Association in 1997. · Corporate / M&A

Máté Kakas

Máté is a multilingual lawyer with over 20 years of experience, advising international clients on complex cross-border transactions and regulatory matters. Calm, balanced and highly solution-oriented, he brings structure to large-scale projects and sees matters through with strong business judgement and precise risk management. He is the head of VJT&Partners's German Desk. His areas of expertise include international real estate and M&A, financing structures, commercial contracts, as well as data protection, e-commerce and regulation. He regularly leads restructuring projects for multinational companies in Hungarian, English and German. As a lawyer at VJT&Partners, he is a steady, reliable support for both clients and the team. · Corporate / M&A

Nándor Beck

Nándor Beck is a counsel in the firm’s Corporate and M&A team, working on corporate matters and M&A and private equity transactions. Nándor also has a post graduate degree in employment law and advises on labour matters. Before joining to the firm, Nándor spent years with an international law firm working on M&A transactions, corporate restructurings and investments, as well as energy matters and real estate projects. · Corporate / M&A

Zoltán Csernus

Zoltán Csernus is a senior employment lawyer, expert in contentious and non-contentious labour matters. He has been advising local and multinational employers, as well as executive employees for over a decade. He specialises in employment litigation and he frequently advises on TUPE matters, employment agreements and terminations, employer policies, internal investigations and disciplinary measures. Counsel at VJT & Partners since 2010. Admitted to Budapest Bar Association in 2004. · Employment