Eördögh Bird & Bird is your 2012 ILO Client Choice Award winner and an IP Firm of the year in 2013.
In addition to protecting your intellectual property, the team can offer you advice relating to any business issue you may be facing including corporate and M&A, dispute resolution, employment, competition law, tax and data protection, real estate and finance.
Eördögh Bird & Bird is a fully integrated part of the international Bird & Bird network. In conjunction with other offices in the Central European region we contribute to the global and European geographical coverage Bird & Bird is offering to its clients.
All our lawyers are highly skilled experts in their areas of specialisation who provide both local and international clients with a full range of commercially focused legal services. Please add the same link as with the CR/SK (provides link to the specific areas of law)
Eördögh Bird & Bird is led by Richárd Eördögh who also heads the Corporate/ M&A and Dispute Resolution group in Hungary.
Recent highlights of work
- International pharmaceuticals company
Teva is a long term client of Bird & Bird. In Hungary we have established a very good and trusting relationship advising TEVA on various legal issues including intellectual property rights enforcement, employment issues and related dispute resolution matters.
- International frozen (half baked and ready) bakery products group
We represent Fornetti in relation to their international franchise network including entering new markets through the conclusion of master franchise agreements.
- Global provider of solutions for insurance
We advice Audatex on various employment law issues including hiring and dismissing of employees, negotiation of settlements with managerial staff, drafting various contractual arrangements.
- Worldwide American Internet service provider
We advise Yahoo in connection with various matters from data protection to employment issues. In particular we advised the client in relation with the Hungarian data protection implications of data transfers of sensitive data, private use of corporate network and surveillance of employees, electronic signatures use and reviewing the internal employment policies from a local labour law perspective.
accolades
Our team has been repeatedly recognized in various fields of legal expertise, as documented in the most reputable international legal directories:
- ILO Client Choice Guide: Client Choice Award 2012
- TMT: Chambers Europe (2011), Legal500 (2011, 2012)
- IP Law Firm of the Year: Managing IP (2013)
- Intellectual Property: Chambers Europe (2011), Legal500 (2011, 2012)
- World Trademark Review (2011, 2012, 2013)
- Corporate/ M&A, Dispute resolution, Employment: Legal500 (2011, 2012)
- Bálint Halász: Client Choice Individual Winner (ILO Client Choice Guide, 2012), listed among leading trademark practitioners World Trademark Review (2012, 2013)
Quotations
“A relatively recent entrant to the market, Eördögh Bird & Bird has gained traction advising on local matters for Bird & Bird's enviable international client base."
WTR, 2013
“Among the UK firms, Bird & Bird has proved to be a force to be reckoned with, acting for a raft of impressive clients and dealing with some complex matters, after only two years in Budapest.”
EMEA Legal 500, Hungary, 2011
“Bird & Bird has succeeded in building up an active TMT practice, with the team described as ‘outstanding’ and ‘good at anticipating change’.”
EMEA Legal 500, TMT, Hungary, 2011
“With particular expertise in IP and employment-related disputes, the ‘outstanding’ team at Bird & Bird is ‘commercially minded and gives concise advice’, and is exceptionally good at ‘anticipating changes in the legal environment’. Recent highlights include representing EST MEDIA GROUP in trade mark disputes.”
EMEA Legal 500, Dispute Resolution, Hungary, 2011
Eördögh Bird & Bird’s team ‘shows a large amount of experience and proactivity in the field of IP’, and is praised for its ‘extraordinary co-operation and celerity’.
EMEA Legal 500, Hungary, 2012
Its ability to serve clients both across Central and Eastern Europe and globally “really distinguishes it from many of its competitors”.
World Trademark Review, Hungary, 2012
Pro-bono work
Eördögh Bird & Bird supports the activities of MOME-line, partner of Art and Design University Moholy-Nagy (Budapest), with pro-bono services.
Eördögh Bird & Bird helps young designers to realise their projects by advising them on the protection and commercial utilisation of their works and inventions. With professional legal advisory services Eördögh Bird & Bird contributes to the development of visual culture in Hungary and in the wider CE region.