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 counsel at the Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH), where she dealt with high-profile mergers and represented the GVH in cross-border cases. 

At CMS, Aranka participates in domestic and cross-border mergers, cartel and abuse of dominance investigations, EU level competition cases, state aid investigations and consumer protection proceedings. She also provides legal advice on a wide range of competition law-related issues. 

In addition, Aranka served as a competition expert at the OECD Competition Division in Paris for a year. She regularly gives lectures on merger control to students at the Bibó István College of Law. She has published many articles on competition law, and especially merger control, both in Hungarian and English. She also co-authored the GVH’s recent survey report on sustainability and competition law, which was prepared for the ICN Annual Conference in 2021.