Legal services
Two law firms, ECOVIS Hungary Legal - Pál, Szabó, Gilly, Hortobágyi and Partners Law Firm and Ecovis Zalavári Legal Hungary (Ecovis Zalavári Law Firm), provide legal services in the Ecovis Hungary Group.
The lawyers of ECOVIS Hungary Legal – Pál, Szabó, Gilly, Hortobágyi and Partners Law Firm draw on nearly two decades of professional experience in providing legal support to Hungarian and international clients. Our work focuses on delivering comprehensive legal assistance to businesses: we advise our clients on matters arising in their day-to-day operations, help them prepare complex business decisions and implement investments, and, where necessary, represent them in the resolution of disputes.
Our strength lies in combining broad commercial law experience with in-depth expertise in individual practice areas. Rather than treating legal issues in isolation, we seek to understand our clients’ operations, business environment and objectives, enabling us to deliver solutions that draw on and coordinate expertise across different areas of law. This is particularly important in complex matters requiring the involvement of multiple practice areas, where legal precision must be considered together with the regulatory environment, commercial objectives and practical feasibility.
Our corporate and commercial law practice supports businesses throughout their entire life cycle. We assist with the establishment and operation of companies, the preparation of shareholder and management decisions, the drafting and negotiation of commercial agreements, and the implementation of mergers and acquisitions, corporate transformations, due diligence reviews and other complex transactions. We also advise businesses on employment law, data protection, advertising law and intellectual property law. Our services include the development of internal policies and contractual frameworks, ensuring regulatory compliance, and resolving any specific legal issues that may arise during the establishment, operation, growth or transformation of a company. In this way, we provide our clients with continuous and reliable legal support at every stage of their business operations.
Our real estate lawyers assist clients with real estate investments and developments, acquisitions and disposals, lease arrangements, and the related financing and contractual matters.
Public procurement law is one of our firm’s principal practice areas. We provide legal support both to organisations qualifying as contracting authorities under public procurement legislation and to businesses seeking to participate in public procurement procedures as tenderers. We undertake the comprehensive management of public procurement procedures for our contracting authority clients across a broad range of procurement categories. Our tenderer clients include companies operating in construction, information technology, architectural design, medical diagnostics, software development, marketing and communications, the manufacture of specialised measuring instruments, exhibition and event management, the transportation of works of art, and various sectors of the healthcare industry.
Our lawyers also have extensive experience in irregularity proceedings relating to the use of European Union funds and in appeal proceedings against irregularity decisions.
We have considerable experience in regulated industries, particularly in healthcare and pharmaceutical law, advising pharmaceutical market participants, healthcare providers, public authorities and other institutions on regulatory, licensing, commercial and public procurement matters.
Our dispute resolution practice covers civil, commercial and administrative disputes, regulatory proceedings and the enforcement of claims. In each matter, we assess whether our client’s interests are best served by a negotiated settlement or by initiating formal proceedings. When acting in litigation or appeal proceedings, we develop a considered strategy that takes account of the matter as a whole.
Where required, our lawyers work closely with partner law firms specialising in competition law, family law and criminal law, as well as with the tax, accounting, audit and compliance professionals of ECOVIS HUNGARY. These collaborative relationships enable us to provide coordinated and comprehensive support in matters involving interconnected legal and commercial issues.