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Boglárka Peszeki
Senior Associate

Boglárka Peszeki

Languages
  • Hungarian
  • English
  • German

Boglárka joined CMS Budapest in February 2012 as a paralegal. Since 2021, she has been a Senior associate in the employment practice group. 

Boglárka has extensive experience handling a broad spectrum of employment legal matters. Her work includes drafting employment contracts, non-compete agreements, study contracts, telework agreements, NDAs, and preparing internal policies and termination documents, including those related to collective redundancy. She regularly advises clients on restructuring, outsourcing, transfers of undertakings, working time scheduling, “paperless employment”, and collective labour law. Additionally, she provides support during labour authority inspections and represents clients before the courts. Boglárka regularly delivers training for HR professionals.

Boglárka spent over a year on secondment at a major pharmaceutical company. During this secondment, she gained valuable insights into the client’s commercial objectives and internal decision-making processes, enabling her to deliver business-focused legal advice.

Clients praise Boglárka for her deep knowledge of employment law, her pragmatic and customer-focused, business-minded approach, and her reliability and responsiveness. They highlight her ability to think creatively to solve problems, to identify and address potential risks, and her attention to detail. According to Legal 500 (2023), “Boglárka Peszeki has a very deep labour and employment knowledge, and is extremely customer focused, quick, and reliable. She can think outside the box in order to review all risks which might cause issues not just now, but also in the future. She is very detail oriented and open to discuss all legal aspects with us. She always provides us with quality support.” In Legal 500 (2024) she is ranked as a “Leading associate”, and in the Chambers and Partners Europe Guide 2024 and 2025 she is recognised in the category of “Associates to watch”.

Awards & Recognitions
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  • Quote
    "Boglárka Peszeki has a very deep labour and employment knowledge, and is extremely customer focused, quick and reliable. She can think outside the box in order to review all risks which might cause issues not just now, but also in the future. She is very detail oriented and open to discuss all legal aspects with us. She always provides us with quality support."
    Legal 500, 2023
  • Quote
    "Who quickly responded with relevant answers, handles our cases with thorough care and involves other lawyers if necessary for certain dedicated, exact topics. She manages all our cases exceptionally well, on time."
    Legal 500, 2022

Relevant experience

  • Marriott Hotels on collective bargaining agreements, employment contracts, compensation packages, student contracts, redundancies, temporary agency workers, disciplinary matters, and working time scheduling.
  • A US based educational technology company on daily operational labour law issues, policy drafting, redundancies, restructuring processes, disciplinary matters, and litigation matters.
  • Lilly Hungária on the full range of employment matters.
  • Wise on terminating employment relationships, engaging freelancers, paying statutory allowances, conducting internal investigations, drafting policies and representation before the courts. 
  • A leading US pharmaceutical company on redundancy matters, handling employee claims, terminations due to misconduct or low performance, implementing global policies into the Hungarian employment law environment, as well as drafting bonus agreements and other side agreements (e.g. study contract, unpaid leave agreement).
  • A major management consulting company on day-to-day legal matters for the company’s HR operations, also including immigration-related advice regarding third-country national employees. 
  • A British multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company on collective bargaining negotiations, and legal support regarding policies, “paperless employment”, disciplinary matters, whistleblowing, redundancies, and remote working.
  • AMC Networks Central Europe Hungary on daily HR matters, including support in termination and restructuring processes, advice relating to post-employment non-compete agreements, remote working, statutory allowances and maternity leave.

Memberships & Roles

  • Budapest Bar Association

Education

  • 2014 - Doctor of Law, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary.

Insights by Boglárka

Amendments to certain BM decrees concerning medical examination related to occupational, professional and personal hygiene suitability

24 Jul 2025 3 min read

Hungary makes changes to employment and guest worker residence permits

21 Jan 2025 3 min read

EU Directive on equal pay for equal work adopted with member state compliance scheduled for 2026

03 Apr 2024 5 min read

Summary on the employment of guest workers in Hungary

01 Sep 2023 3 min read
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