Edina Schweizer

Practice Areas

Edina Schweizer leads the Banking and Finance team at Dentons in Hungary, where she focuses on enhancing client relationships and expanding the firm’s service offerings in transactional banking, capital markets and restructuring/insolvency work. With over 15 years of experience, she has been consistently recommended by Chambers Global and Chambers Europe. Edina has a proven track record in handling complex domestic and cross-border transactions, including project finance, acquisition finance, real estate finance, debt restructurings and insolvency. She is highly skilled in capital markets and securities transactions, covering share and bond issues, IPOs, stock exchange listings, securitization, and derivatives. Her career includes leadership roles at magic circle law firms, with clients praising her professionalism and well-informed decision-making. Edina is a member of the AmCham Regulatory Committee and is regularly invited as a panel speaker at finance law conferences. She is consistently ranked in top tiers for banking and finance in Hungary by independent legal directories, underscoring her expertise and influence in the field.

Work Highlights

- Affiliate of an American Multinational Financial Services Group: Advised the client as agent on a US$300 million oil rig financing in the form of a bond issue by Transocean Ltd.

- A global service provider in the field of packaging, with 92 production facilities in 11 countries: Advising the client and its Hungarian subsidiaries, as borrowers in relation to Czech and Hungarian law aspects of a €55 million financing taken from a consortium of German banks led by Landesbank Baden-Württemberg.

- International Banking Group Headquartered in Italy: Advising the client in Hungary, as lender, on the development loan to GTC to develop the 29,000 m2 “Pillar Office” building.

- International Banking Group Headquartered in Italy: Advising the client in Hungary, as lender, on the acquisition loan to JR AMC (South Korean real estate investment trust) in relation to the 14,000 m2 “Nordic Light Trio” office building financing.

- International Banking Group Headquartered in Italy: Advising the client in Hungary, as lender on a real estate loan to the WING Group to finance operation of the 29,000 m2 Agria Park shopping mall.

- A global furniture company: Advising the client, as borrower, on an amendment to its €45 million syndicated loan taken from a consortium of German banks led by Bayerische Landesbank and Deutsche Bank as mandated lead arrangers.

- A Swiss-based private credit investment management company: Advising the client on a €10 million financing to a fashion company in the form of a mezzanine facility.

- One of Hungary's leading investment management conglomerates, primarily focusing on real estate investments: Advising the client as borrower in relation to a €10 million acquisition financing of a real estate project in Italy.

- Factoring subsidiary of a major multinational bank: Advising the client on a complex factoring transaction relating to Hungarian law receivables.

Languages Spoken

English, German and Hungarian