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
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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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EU Council lifts rule-of-law budget protection measures against Hungary
On 13 October 2026, the Council of the European Union adopted Implementing Decision (EU) 2026/2324, lifting the budget protection measures imposed on Hungary in 2022 under the EU's rule-of-law conditionality mechanism. Published in the Official Journal on 21 October 2026, the decision repeals the previous measures, affecting approximately EUR 4.2bln in cohesion funding. It also removes restrictions on new legal commitments involving public interest trusts and entities maintained by them. However, other EU funding conditions remain applicable.
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Hungary toughens criminal penalties for environmental offences
Hungary has amended its Criminal Code (Act C of 2012), significantly broadening the scope of environmental offences and introducing tougher penalties. The changes mean that environmental breaches previously treated mainly as administrative compliance issues may now also give rise to criminal liability for both the individuals involved and the companies on whose behalf they act.
These criminal-law changes come against the backdrop of a broader tightening of environmental enforcement. Significantly higher environmental fines are already in force as of 25 October 2026, and a national environmental authority is scheduled to begin operating on 1 January 2027. For more details, see our earlier article: https://www.schoenherr.eu/content/hungary-overhauls-environmental-enforcement-and-launches-concession-reviews
Gábor Pázsitka
Office Managing Partner
Office Managing Partner
Partner
hungary
Schoenherr Hungary
Schönherr Hetényi Ügyvédi Iroda
H-1133 Budapest
Váci út 76.
T: +36 1 870 07 00
office.hungary@schoenherr.eu