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The Budapest Office offers advice covering all aspects of business law, mainly in the following areas: |
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The Budapest Office, a leading expert on privatisations in Hungary, advises French and international investors in various industries.
- Privatisation of the water, wastewater and waste treatment, heating in urban areas, gas and electricity.
- Acquisitions, partial asset contributions, restructurings, and establishment of joint ventures. |
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The Budapest Office developed finely-tuned expertise on finance and banking law; it relies on occasional support from the London Office.
- Banking and finance: financing and refinancing, consumer credit, warranties and securities.
- Capital Markets: securities issues and purchases.
- Leasing transactions. |
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The Office assists investors in finding and implementing efficient tax and legal structures, notably in the course of acquisitions or asset transfers.
- Tax planning, tax incentives, applications for tax rulings, VAT regulations.
- International taxation of expatriate individuals. |
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The Office is actively involved in several infrastructure financing transactions (BOT); it acts for Hungarian and international investors.
- Advising on project finance for the construction of motorways, airports, waste and wastewater treatment facilities, and power stations. |
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The Office has been involved in major transactions in Hungary , acting for French and overseas investors.
- Real estate acquisitions: corporate central offices, logistic centres, hotels, farming land.
- Financing: legal and tax planning, negotiation and preparation of financing transactions. - Leases: drafting and negotiating contracts, due diligence, management of shopping centres. |
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The Budapest Office frequently advises on competition and distribution law; it relies on occasional support from the Brussels Office.
- Competition law: anti-competitive measures, permissions to merge regional companies.
- Distribution law: setting up distribution networks in Hungary and in Eastern and Central Europe
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The Office acts for clients in civil, commercial and administrative litigation, or even in constitutional appeals before the highest Hungarian courts.
- Lawsuits against counterfeiters, litigation relating to advertising, expropriation procedures, disputes with retailers, credit recovery, appeals against decisions awarding public procurement contracts.
- ICC Arbitration. |
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The Office advises Hungarian and foreign clients on regulatory issues in these areas.
- Energy: Drafting Operations and Maintenance contracts, privately-run public services, relations with the Energy Office.
- Environment: environmental due diligence, industrial risks, environmental standards.
- Transport: business licenses, applications for carriage licences. |
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The Office advises clients on regulations in these areas.
- Mergers and acquisitions in the telecommunications industry.
- Regulations in the areas of telecommunications, television and the new technologies. |
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The Office is involved at all stages in employer-employee relations and handles social security issues.
- Employment law: employment aspects of restructurings, drafting employment contracts for local and expatriate employees, state subsidies for creating employment opportunities; redundancy procedures.
- Social security: status of “seconded” and “expatriate” employees in Hungary |
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The Office's lawyers in Budapest have developed substantial know-how in the area of Intellectual Property.
- Registration procedures for copyrights, trademarks, patents, designs and models, drafting licensing agreements.
- Litigation and legal support before tribunals and customs authorities. |
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The Office offers advice on legal issues pertaining to the insurance market.
- Mergers, acquisitions, and stake purchases involving insurance companies.
- Preparing and carrying out legal audit on insurance and reinsurance contracts. |
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The Office advises investors purchasing businesses as well as parent companies who wish to transfer Hungarian branches.
- Liquidation and rescue plans: asset transfers and recovery of assets from liquidated companies, asset transfer plans and reorganisation of insolvent subsidiaries.
- Asset recovery procedures. |
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