Balazs Sahin-Toth
Counsel
Budapest
Balazs Sahin-Toth
Counsel
Budapest
Contact details
Balázs leads the Hungarian corporate group. He has experience in a wide range of M&A and real estate transactions and employment law. He regularly acts for banks and corporate entities.
Balázs is a member of the A&O pro bono team and has received some prestigious recognition for his work. He has been awarded as "the Pro Bono Lawyer of the Year 2015" by the Budapest Bar and won the International Bar Association’s (IBA) prestigious Pro Bono Award in 2017. In 2019 Balázs was ranked as highly commended by Financial Times Innovative Lawyers - Rule of Law and Access to Justice for the pro bono work on the segregation damages claim.
Qualifications
Professional
Admitted as lawyer, Hungary, 1998
Academic
Law Degree, Eötvös Loránd University, 1998
International Commercial Law, T.M.C. Asser instituut, 2000
LLM, International Business Law, Central European University, Budapest, 2001
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Qualifications
Professional
Admitted as lawyer, Hungary, 1998
Academic
Law Degree, Eötvös Loránd University, 1998
International Commercial Law, T.M.C. Asser instituut, 2000
LLM, International Business Law, Central European University, Budapest, 2001
Pro-bono experience
- The Chance for Children Foundation and 62 Roma children on their moral damages claim against the municipality and school in Gyöngyöspata, Hungary, on account of school segregation.
Recognition
An exceptionally talented lawyer who is very pro-deal oriented and tactical.
Chambers Europe 2020, Corporate/M&A
