Kinga Hetényi Office Managing Partner

legal service

corporate/M&A, insolvency & restructuring, ip, it & life sciences, labour & employment, eu & competition

admitted to the bar

1998, Hungary

with schoenherr since

2008

education

Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest/Hungary (Dr. iur. 1995)
EC Social Security Law Course, Tempus Stipendium, Edinburgh/Scotland (1993)
University of Vienna, Faculty of Law, Vienna/Austria (1989-90)

working experience

International Law Firm, Attorney at Law, Head of the Corporate/M&A Practice Group, Budapest/Hungary (2005-07)
Philip Morris, Head of Legal Department, Budapest/Hungary (2004-05)
International Law Firm, Attorney at Law, Frankfurt a. M./Germany (Secondment 2000-01)
International Law Firm, Attorney at Law, Budapest/Hungary (1995-2004)

memberships

Budapest Bar Association

languages

Hungarian, German, English, French

publications

• Is the future of Airbnb in Hungary boxed into a corner?
• Mondaq Comparative Guide to International Arbitration 2019
• Hungary: Tricks and Traps of Electronic Communication
• New Act on the Control of Investments Detrimental to the Interests of Hungarian National Security
• Hungary: Introducing the managing director without representation rights
• Újdonság a cégjegyzékben: a képviseleti jog nélküli vezető tisztségviselő
• Hungary: GDPR Considerations in M&A Transactions
• Hungary: New Arbitration Rules of the HCCI
• Hungary: A New Era of Collective Claims
• Potential Hurdle for Acquisitions in Hungary by Non-EU and Non-EEA Investors
• Hungary: Registration Fees for Company Establishment Abolished
• Hungary: Update on Rules Applicable to Executives
• Hungary: Shops Shall Close on Sunday – Against All International Trends
• Hungary: New advertising tax feels like a bucket of cold ice for some companies
• Hungary: energy regulator restructured and further cuts in utilities prices expected
• Hungary: Amnesty for offshore wealth is over - is there any efficient way to tax it?
• Hungary: New taxes on utility and energy sector - no exemption for transmission operators
• Hungary: postal market opens next year
• Hungary: The Three Most Important Changes Introduced by the New Hungarian Labour Code Effective as of 1 July 2012
• Hungary: Why is equity protection ineffective in Hungary?

other publications

• Decision of the Hungarian Constitutional Court on the Protection of Pregnant Women against Termination, Roadmap 15
• Whose responsibility is it anyway, Budapest Business Journal
• Employees' Liability for Breaching Their Obligations, Budapest Business Journal
• Grenzüberschreitende Verschmelzungen, Praxiskommentar, Kapitel über Ungarn, Lexis Nexis 2008
• Telecommunication Laws in Europe, Chapter regarding Hungary, Butterworths, 1998
• Author of several articles and lecturer at conferences about Hungarian Corporate Law and Mergers & Acquisitions, Competition Law, Labour Law, Telecommunication Law, Media Law, E-Commerce and Distribution and Agency Contracts