Szabolcs Szendrő

Practice Areas

Szabolcs is a partner and head of competition at CMS Budapest. He has more than 17 years’ experience in Competition Law and has an economic background.

Before joining CMS, he worked for the Hungarian Competition Authority as the chief legal counsel of the Merger Division, where among others he led in-depth investigations and contributed to legislative and regulatory measures actively.

As a head of CMS Competition Team, Szabolcs leads major antirust cases including in-depth market analysis and detailed data screenings. Szabolcs also participates in domestic and cross-border mergers, cartel and abuse of dominance investigations, EU level competition cases, State aid investigations and consumer protection procedures. He provides legal advice and preliminary legal/economic analysis on wide range of competition law related issues. In addition to his core practice, Szabolcs is also involved in academics as he provides training and lectures for both local and international audiences. (e.g. OECD Capacity Building Projects in CEE) and Hungarian audience as an assistant lecturer at ELTE University of Law.

Professional Memberships

ACE (Association of Competition Economics)

Hungarian Association of Competition Law (Magyar Versenyjogi Egyesület)

Budapest Bar Association

YCLC (CMS antitrust lawyers’ steering committee)