Senior Consultant

Árpád Lantos

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Árpád Lantos is a senior consultant at CMS Budapest with over 30 years’ post-qualification experience. Árpád also has several years' experience in banking law and securities law.

Having worked for five years in the National Bank of Hungary, he has specialist experience in regulatory banking and derivatives. His areas of expertise include banking, corporate finance, capital markets, financial services, project finance, real estate finance, and investment funds.

Árpád is recommended by Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners in several categories, including Banking and Finance and Capital Markets.

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"Arpad Lantos is a first-rate practitioner: knowledgeable, practical and incredibly responsive and diligent."

Legal 500, 2022

Relevant experience

Several Hungarian banks and corporate entities - on the documentation and regulatory aspects of derivatives, including derivatives being added to the cover pool of a mortgage bank.
Bank of China - on financing for MVM and on the financing of an Austrian registered holding company.
Hungarian Eximbank - on its participation in a potential investment by Hungarian Eximbank, as a state-owned export financing bank, in a Luxembourg private equity fund.
J.P. Morgan Securities - on entering the Hungarian market as a primary dealer of Hungarian government bonds.
The Hungarian Post - on the launch of payment services under the EU PSD directive.
Wizz Air Hungary - on pre-delivery payment financing and sale and leaseback transactions for several aircraft.
Pramerica - on a property investment in the framework of an Islamic financing.
A European financial institution - on project financing to partially fund a greenfield battery energy storage system (BESS) project, following the client's successful participation in a national BESS subsidy scheme auction.
A major Chinese bank - on significant financing for a company specialising in an intelligent production line and equipment integration, primarily serving the automotive industry.
One of the largest family-owned construction companies in Central Europe - on a complex bond issuance regarding a large African infrastructure project.
Corvinus Zrt. - on Hungary’s largest-ever multi-billion-dollar acquisition, involving the acquisition by Corvinus Zrt. and VINCI S.A. of 100% of Airport Holding Kft., the operator of Budapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport.
Bank of China - on the issuance of USD 500m floating rate notes under the Medium Term Note Programme of Bank of China Limited.
A major multilateral development bank - on the investment of up to USD 200m in MREL-eligible senior preferred notes issued by OTP Bank Plc.

Memberships & Roles

Member, Budapest Bar Association

Education

1992 – Doctor of Law, József Attila University of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary

Árpád Lantos is a senior consultant at CMS Budapest with over 30 years’ post-qualification experience. Árpád also has several years' experience in banking law and securities law.

Árpád is recommended by Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners in several categories, including Banking and Finance and Capital Markets.

Awards & Recognitions

01 –

Quote

"Arpad Lantos is a first-rate practitioner: knowledgeable, practical and incredibly responsive and diligent."

Legal 500, 2022

Relevant experience

Hungarian Eximbank in relation to the participation in a potential investment by Hungarian Eximbank, as a state-owned export financing bank, into a Luxembourg private equity fund.
OTP Bank on the EMTN Programme update and listing on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange.
Hungarian Development Bank on a EUR 750 m bond issue and listing on the London Stock Exchange.
J.P. Morgan Securities on entering the Hungarian market as a primary dealer of Hungarian government papers.
A number of Hungarian banks and corporate entities in relation to the documentation and regulatory aspects of on derivatives, including the inclusion of derivatives in the cover pool of a mortgage bank.
FHB Mortgage Bank on the inclusion of derivative transactions under ISDA documentation into its cover pool.
Euroclear Bank on a GMRA with the Central Bank of Hungary.

Memberships & Roles

Member, Budapest Bar Association

Education

1992 – Doctor of Law, József Attila University of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary

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