Szilvia Kabács

Szilvia is an international M&A specialist and senior counsel who joined the firm in January 2012. Since June 2025, she has gained further experience in the Middle East region and has been working for the CMS Abu Dhabi & Dubai offices, further expanding her extensive international expertise. Szilvia is qualified in Hungary and admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales. She obtained her LL.M. degree at King’s College London in 2009. She is a member of the Corporate/M&A team at CMS Budapest with substantial experience advising on both cross-border and domestic mergers and acquisitions, including those subject to English law. She has advised clients on transaction in over 15 jurisdictions on a wide range of complex corporate matters, including drafting and negotiating share and asset purchase agreements from inception to post-completion, joint venture agreements, auction processes, private equity acquisitions, and transformations and restructurings. Szilvia has broad project management experience and sector-specific knowledge in a wide range of sectors from banking and finance, through technology and media, to life sciences, automotive and energy.

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.