Márton Kocsis

Antitrust & Competition, Mergers & Acquistions, IT & Privacy, Public Law & European Law

Marton Kocsis is the head and manages the day-to-day operation of the Competition & Compliance Practice Group at CERHA HEMPEL Dezső. He is a highly experienced and respected competition lawyer who has been active in all fields of regulatory law for well over a decade. Marton worked for the Hungarian Competition Authority in Budapest and the European Commission Directorate General for Competition in Brussels for more than eight years. He participated and acted as a leading investigator in several high-profile cartel and abuse of dominance cases.

During his first stint at CERHA HEMPEL Dezső (formerly CHSH Dezső & Partners), he acted as a senior associate, representing international clients in high-profile cartel, antitrust and consumer protection cases before authorities and courts.

In 2019, he spent a year as Group Compliance Chief Counsel of MOL Group, the largest oil company in the CEE region, before returning to lead the Competition & Compliance Practice Group of CERHA HEMPEL Dezső in close cooperation with Mr Polauf. Marton was appointed as partner in June 2022 and slowly took over the day-to-day management of the group from Mr. Polauf who started to focus on managing the entire firm.

Marton s is also a long-serving member of the Supervisory Board of the Hungarian Competition Law association, as well as external member of the marketing-compliance advisory board of Yettel, a strong player on the Hungarian telecommunications market.

Budapest Bar Association

Eötvös Loránd University, Law Faculty, Budapest, Hungary – Master in Law studies with a “cum laude” result (09.2002 – 06.2007),

Qualified lawyer in Hungary with a result of “Good” (04.2011- 02.2012), IBC Legal EU Competition Law Summer School, Cambridge, United Kingdom - IBC Legal’s summer school on EU competition law (08.2013), OXERA Using Economics in Competition Law, Oxford, United Kingdom - Oxera’s course on competition economics (04.2014)