Europe Guide 2026 : Hungary
Ranked Individuals
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Our banking & finance practice continues a long history of innovation, providing advice to lenders and borrowers and other market participants in the financial sector.
Apart from the regular practice of our cross-border banking transactional advice, we are also active in many other areas; a feature very rare in our market. We assist clients in regulatory, licensing and supervisory matters, secondary market transactions, bank sales and exits, consumer protection, product structuring, asset finance, due diligence issues, lending from Asia and the US.
Clients appreciate our strength and innovative experience in this area and continue to seek our advice especially regarding complex matters where mere routine is simply not sufficient. We are best known in this practice area for involvement in relation to the larger multijurisdictional finance projects and restructurings.
We have been involved in the top NPL deals (two corporate portfolios and one dual asset package) and Szabolcs Mestyán as CEE market leading expert in this field has been engaged by EBRD to develop the new Guideline for the management of NPLs in cooperation with the National Bank of Hungary.
Our widely acknowledged expert partners, Szabolcs Mestyán and John Fenemore have been frequently asked to give advice in adjusting to and implementing MiFID 2 and PSD 2 in the everyday practice of notable financial institutions and they continue to be the #1 expert in aviation financing matters in the CEE region.
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Lakatos, Köves & Partners is well regarded for its work on capital markets mandates, advising managers and arrangers on bond issuances, including the issuing of green bonds. The law firm also acts for both borrowers and lenders on corporate financing, real estate financing and project financing mandates. In addition, the team has experience representing clients in amendments to financing agreements along with regulatory mandates.
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Lakatos, Köves & Partners team acted for BNP Paribas on local law aspects of the structuring of a finance lease for Hungarian-based airline Wizz Air.
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Lakatos, Köves & Partners lawyers are very responsive.
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Co-head of the department Szabolcs Mestyán offers notable experience in banking and finance, capital markets and insolvency proceedings. He assists banks as managers with note issuances and lenders with project financing transactions, as well as assisting borrowers with real estate finance and amendments to loan agreements.
Szabolcs Mestyán is one of the most prominent banking and finance lawyers.
Co-head of the department John Fenemore continues to assist banks with regulatory matters, as well as advising on corporate finance and debt restructuring.
John Fenemore delivers advice in a manner which international clients appreciate. It is short and concise.
Head of Banking & Finance
Head of Banking & Finance
Head of Capital Markets
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Gergely Kántor
Eszter Zsófia Szakmáry
Balázs Rokob
Nóra Kertai
Ágnes Ábrahám
Péter Köves
Veronika Bakonyi
Anna Sára Nagy
Éva Tiszeker
Ágnes Fábry
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