Róbert Dezső

Partner

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Róbert Dezső heads the tax practice of Szecskay Attorneys at Law. Alongside his tax and customs practice, he also deals with administrative law, dispute settlement and corporate law matters. With family roots in Germany, and as native speaker, he is a prominent member of our German desk.

 

He has a proven track record of representing clients successfully in complex tax and customs litigation matters against the Hungarian Tax Authority. Clients praise him for his pragmatic, business-focused tax advice.

 

Róbert is particularly recognised in the Hungarian legal community for his landmark victory in a recent customs litigation case that the courts had previously declared unwinnable. He is guest lecturer of tax law at the Institute for Postgraduate Studies at Pázmány Péter Catholic University in Budapest.

 

Native in German; Róbert is fluent in English and French.

Rankings:

  • Legal500, 2020 – 2023, Tax (Individual ranking): Next Generation Partner
  • Legal500, 2018 – 2023, Tax (Team): Tier 2

 

  • Chambers Europe, 2023, Tax (Individual ranking): Up and Coming

 

Awards:

  • Winner of the Wolters Kluwer Award of Jurist of the Year 2017 in the category „Cases of theoretical significance”

Bar Membership:

  • Budapest Bar (since 2013)

 

Other professional memberships:

  • World Services Group
  • Head of the Supervisory Board of SOS Childerns’ Villages Hungary
  • AmCham Investment Policy Task Force
  • Tax Advisor, Chamber of Hungarian Auditors Grade A, (2012)
  • Diplôme de l’enseignement supérieur, Université Montesquieu-Bordeaux IV (2007)
  • J.D., – University of Pécs (2009, summa cum laude)

H-1055 Budapest, Kossuth Lajos tér 16-17.

+36 (1) 472 3000

 

info@szecskay.com