László Nanyista

As a partner and co-Head of Country of the Budapest office, I am heading the Dispute Resolution team. I have extensive experience in litigation, arbitration and corporate matters.

With more than 25 years' experience specialising in litigation and arbitration matters, as well as corporate and capital markets law, I offer our Hungarian and international clients in-depth expertise in complex commercial, securities and regulatory disputes, as well as in public takeover and insider trading issues.

Over the years, I have been involved in a large number of significant matters in our litigation and dispute resolution practices including major corporate, commercial and regulatory disputes, capital markets lawsuits, anti-takeover defences and energy law. I am often involved in international commercial and treaty arbitration cases.

Before joining Bird & Bird, I worked for two other major international law firms, as well as in the legal practice of an international accounting firm here in Budapest. I am fluent in English in addition to Hungarian.

• Corporate law including public company advisory work, commercial law, capital markets law, public takeover law including work on squeeze outs and defence against hostile takeovers, securities law including work covering FX derivatives market and stock exchange products, insider dealing and market abuse law, energy disputes in particular mark-to-market settlement, take-or-pay and make-up clauses.

• Successfully represented MOL, Hungary's biggest company, in a hostile takeover attempt against it by Austria's OMV.
• Successfully represented MFB Invest, the state owned investment bank, as a MOL shareholder in a litigation relating to OMV's hostile takeover attempt against MOL.
• Successfully represented CEZ a.s., the Czech energy conglomerate as a MOL shareholder in a litigation relating to OMV's hostile takeover attempt against MOL.
• Successfully represented MOL in several lawsuits relating to the hostile takeover attempt against it by Russia's Surgutneftegas.
• Successfully represented Magyar Telekom, Deutsche Telekom's Hungarian subsidiary and Hungary's biggest telecom company, in a series of corporate lawsuits challenging Magyar Telekom's AGM resolutions.