Anikó Kircsi
Europe Guide 2024
Band 1 : Corporate/M&A
About
Provided by Anikó Kircsi
Practice Areas
Anikó Kircsi is a partner and Head of the Corporate/M&A practice and the Consumer Products sector groups at CMS Budapest.
Anikó leads both domestic and inbound deals, as well as coordi-nating regional, cross-border transactions. Besides transactional work, she oversees all the corporate law related services our office provides, both to major domestic and international clients across several jurisdictions, including corporations, private equity funds and financial institutions.
Anikó has vast experience in take over transactions for companies listed on the stock exchange, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, joint ven-tures and venture capital/private equity deals. She also performs overall project management in due diligence exercises and regularly advises on regulatory and licensing matters. She is involved with our consumer products sector group clients and has an extensive overview of the sector having advised some of the largest players in the market on various corporate law and transactional matters.
Professional Memberships
- Arbitrator, Permanent Court of Arbitration of Money and Capital Markets
- Member, Amcham Regulatory Committee
- Member, Hungarian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association
- Member, Budapest Bar Association
Publications
- Recent Trends of M&A Transactions as Seen by International Legal Advisers in CEE and Hungary – Budapest Business Journal (December 2017)
- Legal tasks in relation to IPOs (article in Hungarian) – Cégérték (2016)
- Interview in Hungarian on the Hungarian M&A market – Cégérték (2016)
- CMS: Can the M&A market recover in 2015? (article in Hungarian) - Origo
- Report: M&A market fails to live up to expectations – Budapest Business Journal
- The trend outlined by the European Transaction Market Study– CMS M&A study 2014 (article in Hungarian) – Napi Gazdaság
- Rules of corporate law in view of the new Civil Code (article in Hungarian) - Napi Gazdaság
- CMS M&A Study 2013 – CMS analysed 1700 European corporate transactions (article in Hungarian) - Origo
Languages Spoken
Hungarian
English
Education
University of Bradford, UK
European Studies
1993
(József Attila University, Szeged, Hungary
Doctor of Administration and Law
1995
Eötvös Loránd University
Postgraduate Studies on European Union Law, LL.M
1999
George Washington University Law School, USA
General Master of Laws
2003
Chambers Review
Europe
Anikó Kircsi is one of the top-ranked M&A lawyers in Hungary. Anikó Kircsi has a broad range of experience, advising on multi-jurisdictional acquisitions and divestments in the energy and pharmaceutical industries, as well as assisting with foreign direct investments, joint venture agreements and corporate restructuring.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Anikó Kircsi is able to give practical, well-elaborated advice. She always focuses on moving the transaction forward in an effective way."
"She is really experienced."
"Anikó Kircsi is able to give practical, well-elaborated advice. She always focuses on moving the transaction forward in an effective way."
"She is really experienced."