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Antitrust, Competition and Trade Lawyers

The CMS Antitrust, Competition and Trade (ACT) group in Budapest, Hungary, part of the fully integrated CMS global team, is one of the largest specialist competition and trade teams in the country. Globally, more than 225 CMS experts advise clients in over 40 countries on all ACT matters.

Given our size and extensive footprint, we can deal with all ACT matters irrespective of their geographic dimension. Where necessary, we cooperate with long-established contacts from our wider network of affiliated law firms around the world.
We are specialists across the full range of Antitrust, Competition and Trade matters. We have expert sub-groups that specialise in specific areas in the wider competition and trade field, e.g. for State aid internal investigations and screening. We are also well-known as experts in various sectors of the economy. Our renowned sector specialisation encompasses automotive, consumer products/FMCG, construction, digital economy, energy/oil & gas, life sciences, telecommunications/media and transport, to name but a few. 

Our clients range from many multinationals who frequently use our team as their ACT law firm of choice for the entire region (e.g., in Europe or CEE), and a high number of medium-sized companies. Our dedicated competition and regulatory experts in Hungary can advise you on the entire range of contentious and non-contentious competition law issues. We regularly advise clients on competition matters across multiple jurisdictions in CEE, working closely together across the CMS Network, to deliver consistent and joined-up advice. CMS Budapest has a successful track record in representing clients before national authorities and courts, as well as the European Commission.

The Competition Team in Hungary is considered to be among the best practices in the country and in CEE, with a stable, sector-focused team of specialists including former in-house lawyers, counsels of the Hungarian Competition Authority and economists. The team has achieved outstanding results in recent years in significant antitrust, abuse of dominance, merger control, consumer protections cases, private damages actions and state aid matters, while ranked highest by all legal directories (Elite at GCR, Band 1 at Chambers&Partners, and Tier 1 at Legal500).

"[The competition team’s] client management is exceptionally great; they are able to make me feel that I am the only and most important client of the office."
Chambers Europe, 2022

We use the most up-to-date technical and AI tools to support our business in Hungary and abroad. 

We hold a renowned annual EU competition law conference which has become a feature in the Brussels calendar. We put out regular case law updates on Hungarian, European and international competition and trade developments on our Law Now service. Our monthly EU law webinars are attended by in house counsel from around the world. And our group is steered not just by a management committee of partners, but also by an active associates’ group that keeps us innovating to serve clients.

We cover every area of Antitrust, Competition and Trade law—internationally and on the Hungarian market.

 
Dóra Petrányi
Dóra Petrányi
Partner
CEE Managing Director, Co-Head of the Technology, Media and Communications Group
Hungary, Budapest
Dóra is a partner and CEE Managing Director at CMS. She co-heads the Commercial practice and heads the Life Sciences & Healthcare practices in the Budapest office. She advises major pharmaceutical, biotechnological...
Szabolcs Szendrő
Szabolcs Szendrő
Partner
Head of Antitrust, Competition and Trade
Hungary, Budapest
Szabolcs Szendrő is a partner and Head of Antitrust, Competition and Trade at CMS Budapest. He has more than 10 years’ experience in Competition Law and has an economic background. Before joining...
Aranka Nagy
Aranka Nagy
Senior Associate
Hungary, Budapest
Aranka is a senior associate in the Antitrust, Competition and Trade Team at CMS Budapest. Aranka has 12 years’ experience in all aspects of competition law. Before joining CMS, Aranka worked as chief...
Dora Altziebler
Dóra Altziebler
Associate
Hungary, Budapest
Dóra Altziebler is an associate in the CMS Budapest Antitrust, Competition and Trade Team who joined the firm in 2016.Dóra has advised clients on all aspects of competition and consumer protection law...
Zsófia Tari
Zsófia Tari
Associate
Hungary, Budapest
Zsófia Tari is an associate of the Antitrust, Competition and Trade Team at CMS Budapest. Before joining CMS she worked at the Hungarian Competition Authority for more than 8 years in different positions...