KCG Partners Law Firm

KCG Partners Law Firm is a business law firm supported by strong litigation and tax advisory capabilities. The Firm combines the efficiency and economy of an elite local law firm with the in-depth knowledge of a global firm.

Over the last decades, we have established a strong reputation for the work we do. We have market leading practices in employee stock ownership plan (ESOP), industrial property development, employment, tax and regulatory/compliance.

Our clients are complex organizations with pressing legal issues that frequently challenge not only their businesses but also their entire industries. Dealing with these issues oftentimes leads to a drain on corporate resources.

We help our clients conserve these resources and generate value for their organizations by applying a collaborative approach aimed at jointly uncovering the most efficient path to tackling their issues.

Our clients receive support across their full-business life-cycle, from strategy formulation to value delivery. They involve us at all levels of their organizations, from the boardroom to their production fields.

Practice areas

Industrial Development:

With our Industrial Development practice group, KCG Partners offers market-leading advice across a range of businesses for which industrial real estate is central to the transaction, including greenfield and brownfield investments. We bring together knowledge and experience from across our firm to provide our clients with comprehensive legal services.

Tax Consulting Services:

KCG Partners provides comprehensive legal services including sophisticated tax planning and deal structuring. Our clients regularly request our tax insights at the outset of their transaction planning due to our deep knowledge of tax law and our industry sector focus.

Employment

With KCG Partners, you receive legal strategies aimed at supporting a vibrant and productive workforce for your company. We help employers navigate the challenging and frequently changing landscape of employment law by addressing all the complexities of employer-employee relationships.

Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)

Although Employee Stock Ownership Plans are an emerging field of law in Hungary, KCG Partners has already earned national recognition for its ESOP practice primarily due to our strong background in business law, including M&A, corporate, financial, regulatory and tax disciplines. Our attorneys are frequent lecturers and authors regarding corporate, tax and transactional issues relating to ESOPs and have been active leaders in this community for years. As a result, our firm can provide comprehensive assistance for both leveraged and non-leveraged deals throughout all stages of the ESOP business lifecycle: planning/structuring, implementing, financing, maintaining and redeeming.

Financial regulatory and capital markets

KCG Partners has extensive experience in the representation of financial institutions across the full spectrum of legal banking and financial regulatory matters. Our financial team assists international banks, fund management companies, investment advisers and custodians in the banking and finance area. Our clients involve us in the formation and registration of funds, mergers and dissolutions, and we provide representation before regulatory agencies, in connection with investigations and in litigation matters.

KCG Partners is also a well-known legal service provider in the Hungarian capital markets. Our clients rely on us to help them secure the right mix of financing in the equity and the debt capital markets. Our firm has extensive market knowledge and broad international experience at structuring and negotiating financing to meet the strategic goals of our clients.

M&A / Investments

KCG Partners has extensive experience in a diverse range of corporate, M&A and direct investment deals.

Clients request our assistance with transactions of all forms and sizes, including private M&A, joint ventures and corporate restructuring. They also rely on our advice for complex corporate governance, compliance and regulatory issues. We work with domestic, regional and global companies on all aspects of buying and selling companies and businesses, oftentimes involving a cross-border element.

We also focus on advising businesses and investors on direct investments in Hungary whether they be in agricultural and tourism projects or in highly complex regulated markets, such as energy, finance and insurance markets. Our clients rely on us to guide them in making appropriate investment choices for capitalizing on Hungary’s skilled workforce, appealing business environment, and attractive investment incentives. We are especially experienced in brownfield and greenfield investment projects in major business sectors.

IT/Data Protection

KCG Partners addresses our clients’ need to eliminate or mitigate risks deriving from unwittingly breaking international and local information protection laws. We have assembled a team of cybersecurity, privacy and data protection experts so that our clients can rely on our specialized knowledge and extensive experience to help them navigate the abundant EU and Hungarian legislations pertaining to data privacy and security.

ESG

ESG is derived from the initials of the words Environmental, Social and Governance. Each of these three words covers a pillar, the basic aim of which is to tackle the major challenges of the 21st century, such as the environment, global warming or social inequalities. We help companies navigate the challenging and ever-changing world of ESG by advising on all aspects of ESG issues and helping companies to comply with changing legislation.

Wealth management

The field of wealth management basically covers two legal instruments, trusts and foundations, as possible solutions. Based on foreign, mainly German, models going back several decades, trusts have become established in Hungary in recent years and are increasingly used by local companies and individuals. Our office has many years of professional experience in the field of wealth management, during which time we have encountered many claims, aspects, various cross-border assets, and asset elements and have carried out many successful restructurings.

Dispute resolution

We provide dispute resolution services across a wide spectrum of our practice, including general commercial, employment, financial and contractual litigations, M&A-related disputes, litigations concerning tax matters, public & administrative law and real estate issues.

Our clients receive support across the full-business life-cycle of a litigation, including the pre-litigation stages, negotiations, strategy formulation and alternative dispute resolutions procedures. If the alternative dispute resolution does not lead to a solution we conduct litigation proceedings before national courts and arbitral tribunals.

Before disputes even arise, our team regularly performs due diligence and risk audits as the best ways to actually avoid the dispute. Our team is capable to prevent the escalation of the disputes and to resolve them effectively. We have dealt with a number of highly sensitive matters where we had to use our ability of crisis management. Our method is to be pro-active to take steps to influence the outcome of the case rather than just react to the events in the proceedings.

Global Mobilization

When our clients need to manage the relocation of key staff, KCG Partners provides them with both pre-decision counseling as well as departure and destination assistance relating to all permanent or short-term assignments. Our clients also rely on us to create relocation policies in accordance with their ongoing business strategies.