Szilvia is Senior Counsel who joined the firm in January 2012. Szilvia is qualified in Hungary and admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales. She also obtained her LL.M. degree at King’s College London in 2009. 

As an international and Hungarian M&A specialist, she is a member of the Corporate/M&A team at CMS Budapest, with substantial experience in advising on both cross-border and domestic mergers and acquisitions, including subject to UK law, and a wide range of corporate law matters, including drafting and negotiating share and asset deals and joint venture agreements, private equity acquisitions, transformations, and coordinating due diligence investigations. Szilvia has broad project management experience and sector-specific knowledge with a special focus on the banking sector and the aviation sector.

She has considerable experience advising on the employment-related aspects of transactions and generally in the field of labour law, including concluding and terminating service agreements and agreements for executives, collective bargaining agreements, collective redundancies and legal successions (under the TUPE regulation). 

She also has experience in general commercial and contract law, has worked as a secondee for the air carrier Wizz Air on aeronautical sector-specific agreements (SGHAs, ASAs, Incentive Agreements, etc.), and on various commercial agreements. Before then, she worked on pharmaceutical regulatory and food regulatory matters. 

She is a member of the AmCham Governance & Transparency Committee and the CMS German Practice.