Szarvas and Partners Law Firm

Szarvas and Partners Law Firm is a small boutique firm with international clientele. We focus on legal support of foreign investments in Hungary and on legal compliance of clients doing business in Hungary.

The firm specializes on complex advisory and transactional services, when legal support needs to be provided in consideration of tax and accounting aspects and in cooperation with professionals of such areas. We are an independent law firm, having smooth cooperation with several independent tax advisors and accounting firms, as well as with law firms in numerous European countries.

We can support your investment in Hungary with the following services:

• Company setup

Our law firm helps clients from the first moment of entering Hungary for setting up their business here.

• Acquisitions

Our law firm provides full scope legal support in M&A transactions, either at purchaser’s or seller’s side, from putting together the LoI, through the due diligence process, till drafting and finalizing the SPA, other transaction documents and closing files.

• Real estate transactions

Full transaction documentation to cover the legal title and use of the property, as well as rights and obligations generating revenues and costs in respect of the real estate, through the purchase of either the property itself or a company holding it.

• Joint ventures

Our lawyers draft complex documentation of the joint venture agreement together with relevant corporate documentation, so that to ensure the enforceability of all elements of the structure.

We can support your ongoing business in Hungary with the following services:

• Corporate secretarial support

Besides meeting statutory requirements, the services of our law firm include advisory on what information should be registered for practical or corporate governance reasons too.

• Corporate restructuring, mergers and demergers

Our lawyers have obtained substantial experience in various transactions aiming corporate restructuring, including cross-border and domestic intra-group mergers, demergers, sale or contribution of shares of Hungarian entities of multinational groups.

• Corporate finance transactions

Our lawyers have gained extensive experience in planning and implementing corporate finance transactions. In such matters, we generally work together with financial and tax advisors or accountants, and implement the structure designed by such financial professionals in the corporate documentation.

• HR legal support

The support of our lawyers covers all legal aspects of the HR lifecycle from hiring personnel through different compliance matters to employment restructuring transactions and dismissals. We provide assistance in the planning of the employment structure and working time schedule of the new Hungarian operation in close cooperation with payroll and taxation advisors.

• Contracting

Our lawyers help clients at different levels of the supply chain, so that on one hand contracts properly reflect the business agreements of parties, and on the other hand include information needed for accounting or taxation reasons.

• Data protection

Our law firm helps clients with preparation of full scope of data privacy documentation including information materials for their clients, different data processing approval forms, as well as internal and external data processing by-laws and manuals.