Oppenheim Law Firm Budapest

Sarolta's practice focuses on resolving complex legal disputes involving Hungarian and international parties through court proceedings, and arbitration.
Her clients range from Hungarian and foreign multinational corporations to foreign individual investors in Hungary. They come from a variety of sectors, with her practice often handling cases from the construction, venture capital, advertising, and pharmaceutical industries.
Sarolta handles a wide range of legal disputes, having successfully represented her clients in complex construction disputes, disputes arising from share or real-estate purchase transactions, other disputes related to contractual relations, and tort law lawsuits.

In recent years, Sarolta represented various clients in state court litigations and domestic and international arbitral proceedings, such as an multinational ultra low-cost carrier, insurance groups, multinational automotive parts manufacturing company.
She is part of a professional team of Korean and Hungarian litigators representing the families of the Hableány disaster victims in complex cross-border civil and criminal proceedings.

Graduated summa cum laude from the Faculty of Law of ELTE in 2015.
Earned a Certificate of English Law at the University of Warwick, specializing in Contract and Tort Law.
Member of the Budapest Bar Association since 2018.
Joined Oppenheim in 2014, previously gaining experience at the Metropolitan Court. In 2017, she spent several months at a Vienna-based boutique law firm specialising in international arbitration.
She is a Lecturer at the Department of Civil Procedure Law at the Faculty of Law of ELTE. In 2017, she was a Visiting Researcher at the University of Heidelberg.
Member of the Hungarian Arbitration Association.
Starting January 2023, she is the Community Ambassador for the Vienna Permanent Court of Arbitration (VIAC) representing Hungary.

Conceptual and practical problems related to the scope of application of the new Arbitration Act in Polgári Jog 2018/7-8.
Commentary on the Civil Procedure Code and related legal acts, Part I, Chapter VIII, 34-36 edited by István Varga, Budapest, HVG-ORAC, 2018.
Expert Proposal for the Codification of the New Civil Procedure Code, First Part , Chapter VII-X edited by István Varga and Tamás Éless, Budapest, HVG-ORAC, 2016.
Critical Analysis of the Hungarian Choice of Forum Rules Legal Studies (‘Jogi Tanulmányok’), ELTE Law School, 2016, 580-589.
“Piercing the Corporate Veil” in Case of Existing Legal Persons – Critical Analysis of the Decision EBD 2014.11.G3 co-author: Szabolcs Patai, in Polgári Jog 2016/3.

Sources say: “I have had the pleasure of working with Sarolta on several cases, and her attention to detail and ability to think outside the box is truly remarkable.”

Disputes, Litigation and Arbitration

Construction & Construction Materials Life Sciences, Pharma Real Estate

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