Dóra Petrányi

Practice Areas

Dóra Petrányi is a partner at the CMS Budapest office. She leads the TMC, Data protection and Intellectual Property (IP) practice areas and is a partner in the Budapest office's Antitrust, Competition and Commercial practice areas.

Her main clients are TMT and pharmaceutical companies, foreign-owned commercial banks and major joint ventures.

Her areas of expertise include AI, digital infrastructure, cyberse-curity, data protection, GDPR, competition law, intellectual property law, general commercial contracts, corporate restructuring and mergers and acquisitions.

Dóra is the Co-Chairman of the Regulatory & Ethics Committee of the Hungarian AI Coalition and leads in formulating the response of the Hungarian AI Coalition to the EU consultation request regarding the EU White Paper on Artificial Intelligence, a European Approach to Excellence and Trust. She is also a member of the Hungarian Council of Copyright Experts and a member of the Digital Civil Code Review Working Group, being the only outside counsel in the team. She is the first and only lawyer to be a member of the co-regulatory committee between the local telecommunications’ regulatory authority and the Association of Hungarian Content Providers. Dóra is a member of the International Board at Global Telecom Women's Network (GTWN). Dóra is co-author of several sector-specific publications and is a regular speaker at key international conferences, including the World Economic Forum (Davos), the Mobile World Congress and ECTA.

Professional Memberships

- Co-Chairman of the Regulatory & Ethics Committee of the Hungarian AI Coalition

- Member of the Digital Civil Code Review Working Group

- Member, Hungarian Council of Copyright Experts

- Member, the co-regulatory committee between the local telecommunications’ regulatory authority and the Association of Hungarian Content Providers

- Hungarian Competition Law Association

- Member of the Board of Directors of UNICEF Hungary

Publications

- The Current Regulatory Framework for AI-driven Voice Analytics, Chambers 2022

- Digital Horizons - a series of reports exploring CEE’s digital future

- The Cybersecurity Challenge in Central and Eastern Europe

- CMS Network Sharing Studies

- New Promotional Provisions Raise Questions in Hungary – The MSL Journal, 2022

- Hungary data authority issues heavy fine for the use of AI voice recording analysis, 2022

- Reimagining Digital: An Interview on Building a Sustainable Digital Infrastructure – CEE Legal Matters, 2021

- Amendments made to Hungarian Copyright Act, 2021

- European Commission proposes first legal framework on AI, 2021

- EU Digital Services Act gives new legal framework for platform economy, 2021

- EU issues draft of Digital Markets Act aimed at creating a new and fair business framework for large platforms, 2021

Languages Spoken

Hungarian

English, German

French (conversational level)

Russian (conversational level)

Education