Hungary
Schoenherr Hungary was established in 2008 when a well-established team of experienced legal professionals, now led by Gábor Pázsitka, joined the firm in order to benefit from Schoenherr’s strong position in the CEE/SEE region.
It has a long track record of representing foreign investors, mainly in acquisitions and green field investments, corporate, employment law, merger control filings and other competition matters, finance and insolvency matters as well as real estate transactional mandates, construction and development, including large-scale infrastructure and energy projects. Additionally, the team advises numerous sizeable corporate clients on an ongoing basis on issues such as general corporate, commercial and regulatory matters, real estate and employment law.
Recently, the office has been attracting a growing number of international and domestic corporate clients in the energy, food, technology and banking and insurance sectors.
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- banking, finance & capital markets
- compliance & internal investigations
- crisis response
- corporate / m&a
- dispute resolution
- employment
- eu & competition
- restructuring & insolvency
- ip & unfair competition
- regulatory
- venture capital
office
Schönherr Hetényi Ügyvédi Iroda
Váci út 76.
H-1133 Budapest
T: +36 1 870 07 00
F: +36 1 870 07 01
office.hungary@schoenherr.eu
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Hungary overhauls environmental enforcement and launches concession reviews
Prime Minister Péter Magyar announced a sweeping reform of Hungary's environmental enforcement framework, including a dramatic increase in fine ceilings, the introduction of minimum fines for repeat offenders and the creation of a new national environmental authority from 1 January 2027. The government will also launch reviews of the waste-management and tobacco concession systems, and has unveiled a nationwide reforestation programme to mitigate the effects of climate change. A new climate and energy strategy is expected by year-end.
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Hungarian competition authority closes greenwashing trilogy on PET bottles: a warning shot ahead of the EU's Empowering Consumers Directive
The Hungarian Competition Authority (HCA) closed three "PET-bottle" greenwashing investigations between March and August 2026, which had targeted sector giants Fonte Viva Kft. (and its parent MOL Nyrt.), Szentkirályi Magyarország Kft. and the Coca-Cola group of companies over claims such as "100 % recycled PET bottle" and "100 % rePET".
Gábor Pázsitka
Office Managing Partner
Office Managing Partner
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hungary
Schoenherr Hungary
Schönherr Hetényi Ügyvédi Iroda
H-1133 Budapest
Váci út 76.
T: +36 1 870 07 00
office.hungary@schoenherr.eu