Bird & Bird LLP

Competition, Energy, Corporate, Commercial

Partner

Dániel is Head of the Energy and Competition practice groups of Bird & Bird in Budapest, as well as member of the Corporate & Commercial practices. He focuses on regulatory and competition matters in the energy sector, and also offers in-depth experience in tech & comms.

Dániel has a keen interest in energy, and always thrives working with the technical and business experts of Hungarian and international clients to make sure that every aspect of the matter is covered and the pieces fall into the right place at the right time. Dániel has a variety of clients active in virtually the entire electricity and oil & gas supply chains, who have trusted him to guide them through complex cross-border and domestic projects and transactions, be it an M&A deal, project development, financing or corporate restructuring. he has represented clients before the Hungarian Energy and Public Utility Regulatory Authority, the Euratom Supply Agency and the European Commission.

Dániel particularly likes the excitement of learning and analysing how the markets and businesses of clients' work. He is convinced that such a deep dive into market and business correlations is key in handling competition matters and requires continuous cooperation with the expertise of our clients. He has implemented this approach across numerous industry sectors and advised domestic and multinational clients on merger clearance, commercial anti-trust matters, cartel investigations, sector inquiries and state aid issues, including representation before the Hungarian Competition Authority, the Hungarian State Aid Monitoring Office and the European Commission.

He has been fortunate enough to have gained a valuable insight into the tech & comms industry, and understand the energy and buzz that comes from working in an innovative field whilst advising our national and international clients on M&A deals, commercial agreements and regulatory issues such as spectrum management, frequency tenders and SMP obligations, to name a few.

English, German, Hungarian

Budapest Bar Association - 2010

Eötvös Loránd University, JD, Law