Bogsch & Partners is an independent law firm advising clients in all areas of commercial, corporate and business law, M&A, antitrust, real estate, finance, tax, labour and regulatory law.


Corporate and business law

The main profile of the Firm is corporate and business law, with special emphasis on acquisitions, investment projects, real estate development of companies, furthermore tax law, competition law, advertisement law, media law, environmental law and generally all the civil law fields, that are closely connected with the establishment and business operation of domestic companies, and Hungarian subsidiaries or branch offices of multinational firms. Our services also include providing the foreign mother companies with the advice and support in all legal aspects that are necessary for them.


Intellectual Property

The expertise of Bogsch & Partners is widely acknowledged in all intellectual property matters, including patents, trademarks, registered designs and copyrights. The Firm provides professional services in relation to application and registration matters, searches, market surveys, monitoring and watching services as well as transactional IP due diligence.

Bogsch & Partners has an extensive experience in advice and legal representation in infringement and piracy cases as well as in other IP-related litigation at the Hungarian Patent Office and courts. The Firm provides expert advice on dealing with intellectual property assets, such as trademark, brand name and copyright portfolios, further on IP and technology transfer, licence and royalty matters, including tax aspects.


Information technology, media, e-commerce

The Firm is frequently requested to advise on technology related commercial and regulatory issues, which comprise information technology, computer software, trading on the Internet, e-business, domain name registrations and disputes, media regulations and telecommunication services, as well as franchising, marketing, advertising and unfair competition aspects together with legal assistance concerning consumer protection and data protection compliance matters.


Real estate

Bogsch & Partners, acting for its clients, has accomplished a great number of important investments involving acquisition, development and sale of real estate, such as major office buildings in Budapest, green-field investments of a leading IT-company in Székesfehérvár, acquisition and sale of several plants throughout Hungary and the establishment and continuous operation of a whole restaurant chain of the largest fast food operator in Hungary.


Labour, environmental, health and safety

Our practice on all legal and regulatory aspects of labour, environmental, health and safety matters developed widely throughout the professional advice for establishment and business operation of Hungarian companies. This activity includes assistance concerning domestic or foreign employment and labour permit issues, handling of claims arising from collective interests and trade union conflicts, drafting and concluding of collective bargaining and factory agreements, legal advice on lay-off, restructuring, take-over, lease and allocating of employees, as well as all aspects of outsourcing schemes. Bogsch & Partners’ expertise covers labour disputes and litigation cases, further establishment and operation of various employment systems and their harmonization with quality assurance/management systems.


Competition law

Cartel, antitrust and merger control issues have become the first in which field European legal regulations had to be thoroughly looked at and the competition practice of Bogsch & Partners is widely acknowledged both in project based advice as well as in representation before the Competition Office by clearance and complaint filing and in front of the respective Courts.


EU law

With the accession of Hungary to the European Union the Acquis Communautaire became part of Hungarian law as of 1 May 2004, however, Bogsch & Partners had been involved for over a decade in advising its clients on all aspects of EU regulations and harmonization of Hungarian legislation with the EU rules. The members of the Firm are well-qualified in all major applicable fields of commercial law as to their European aspects and sophisticated data room and on-line links to information databases have been established to provide appropriate update information for them at any time.