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Judit Budai
Senior Partner
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Judit is a senior partner, co-managing the firm. Joining from its foundation she gained a broad corporate, M&A, competition, corporate finance, capital markets transactional and regulatory experience from wide range of industry and service area segments.
First half of her practice Judit played a team member or team leader advisory roles in a number of privatization and strategic M&A (both seller and buyer side) deals and IPOs. Recently Judit is more active in M&A and corporate restructuring or finance transactions for both strategic and financial investors (VC/PE investors and financial institutions), or giving complex corporate structuring advise to innovative start-ups. Judit also advises business owners and top executives in connection with expanding their businesses and restructuring operation for a more sustainable business modell or to help generation exchange or solving shareholders disputes.
She is fluent in English.
- "she has wide-ranging corporate expertise with a focus on M&A and regulatory matters, including recent cases with real estate aspects"
Chambers Global, 2017, Corporate M&A
- "Judit Budai has an excellent understanding of the economic and financial background of a transaction, and what is important, or less important, for a business to make decisions about"
Chambers Europe, 2016, Corporate M&A
- "business-minded and responsive"
The Legal500, 2016, Commercial, Corporate and M&A
- "brings ideas to the table"
The Legal500, 2016, Projects and Energy
- "a highly effective and focused deal maker who is extremely responsive and tireless in her efforts to resolve issues"
IFLR1000, 2016, Financial and corporate
Rankings:
- Chambers Global, 2017, Corporate M&A, Hungary (Individual Ranking): Band 4
- Chambers Global, 2016, Corporate M&A, Hungary (Individual Ranking): Band 3
- Chambers Global, Edition 2017 - Dispute Resolution (Individual Ranking): Band 3
- Chambers Global, Edition 2016 - Dispute Resolution (Individual Ranking): Band 3
- TheLegal500, 2018, Banking and Finance, Hungary (Team): Tier 2
- TheLegal500, 2018, Capital Markets, Hungary (Team): Tier 3
- TheLegal500, 2018, Commercial, Corporate and M&A, Hungary (Team): Tier 2
- IFLR1000, 2017, Capital Markets, Hungary (Individual Ranking): Highly Regarded
- IFLR1000, 2016, Banking and Finance, Hungary (Individual Ranking): Leading Lawyer
- IFLR1000, 2015, Banking and Finance, Hungary (Individual Ranking): Leading Lawyer
- IFLR1000, 2017, Project Finance, Hungary (Team): Tier 3
- IFLR1000, 2016, Project Finance, Hungary (Team): Tier 3
- IFLR1000, 2015, Project Finance, Hungary (Team): Tier 3
Competition Law Compliance Program
23. 01. 2018. Anikó Keller, Miklós Boronkay, János Vajda, Gábor Faludi Jr., Bence Molnár, Gusztáv Bacher, Judit Budai
Bar Memberships:
- Budapest Bar Association (since 1994)
Other professional memberships:
- International Bar Association (IBA), Securities Law Committee Conference Quality Officer
- Union International des Avocats (UIA),
- Executive Committee Member,
- Deputy Director of National and Regional Activities (former Director of Seminars) and
- President of the Banking Law Commission
- Hungarian Venture Capital Association (HVCA), Advocacy Coordinator of the Legal Committee
- American Chamber of Commerce in Hungary (AmCham)
- Governance and Transparency Committee member
lecturing and participating in role plays simulating public and private board room case studies to businesses and universities in FCPA and integrity subjects
- Innovation Policy Task Force member
active in working out private sector program proposals for submission to policy makers to improve the ecosystem of cooperation of multinational innovative businesses, start-ups and universities in complex technology intensive and innovative R&D projects
- EU Law Post Graduate Program, Center of European Law, School of Law, King's College London (2004)
- MBA, Budapest Economic University - joint program with London Business School (1996)
- J.D., Eötvös Loránd Faculty of State and Legal Science in Budapest (1991)