Member Profile

Bán, S. Szabó & Partners is a full service Hungarian law firm, primarily with international clients, their Hungarian subsidiaries and prominent Hungarian companies. Its practice includes M&A and other transactions as well as a well balanced corporate law practice.

Its particular areas of expertise include Hungarian and EU competition law, telecommunications, labor, real estate, banking and finance, intellectual property, energy and utilities and complex contract negotiations in major IT procurement projects. The firm has developed a well balanced corporate law practice advising clients in contracts, company and labor law, intellectual property law, litigation and other areas of civil and commercial law.

BSP has seven partners and several qualified Hungarian associated lawyers. All of our lawyers are fluent in English. Several of our lawyers work in German, while some of our attorneys speak French as well.

Dr. Bán is a founding partner and has been managing partner of Bán, S. Szabó & Partners since 1997, with wide experience in corporate and commercial law, mergers and acquisitions, securities regulations and competition law. She has represented multinational companies in merger and acquisition transactions, privatization transactions, green field investments, corporate, real estate and competition law matters.

The Office participated in some of the largest privatizations in Hungary in the fields of banking, telecommunications, oil and gas utilities and other industrial areas including food processing, pharmaceuticals and agro-chemicals.

Bán, S. Szabó & Partners’ corporate and commercial law practice includes foreign and Hungarian clients from various fields of industries.

From 1980 to 1993, Dr. Bán was an associate law professor at Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest) and McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific (Sacramento, California). Between 1993-1997, Dr. Bán served as a senior Hungarian attorney at the Budapest office of Shearman & Sterling. In 1997 she was one of the founding partners of Bán, S. Szabó & Partners.

- Eötvös Loránd University, School of Law, Juris Doctor, 1980

- Postgraduate law degree in international commercial law, Legal Postgraduate Institute of Eötvös Loránd University, 1987

- Academy of American and International Law, the Southwestern Legal Foundation, International and Comparative Law Center University of Texas, Dallas, Texas 1987

- Getting The Deal Through: Vertical Agreements, Chapter on Hungary, 2007-2015

- Getting The Deal Through: Arbitration, Chapter on Hungary, 2012-2015

- European Lawyer Reference Series: Merger Control, Chapter on Hungary, 2011, 2014

- European Lawyer Reference Series: Leniency Regimes, Chapter on Hungary, 2007, 2010, 2015

- International Secured Transactions, Chapter on Hungary, Oceana, New York, 2009-2015

- Real Property Security, Security Interest in Immovables and Real Property, Hungary, 2007

- Practical Questions on Transferring Business Interest in Companies, Ius Privatum Ius Commune Europae, ELTE-ÁJK Nemzetközi Magánjogi Tanszék, 2001

- Eötvös Loránd University, School of Law decorated her in 2008 with “Pro Facultate” award.

- The Hungarian Bar Association decorated her in 2012 with “Outstanding Attorney” award.