About

  • Péter’s main areas of practice include cartel and, dominant position and other antitrust cases, merger control notifications, state aid related advice and consumer protection investigations. He has extensive experience in the competition law analysis of various sales and distribution models as well as marketing campaigns.

Recent work

  • Representing various clients from various industries, such as banking, media, telecommunication, pharma, FMCG, etc.

Professional Background

  • Studied at and graduated from ELTE (Budapest) Faculty of Law in 2009
  • Studied at Lund University Faculty of Law (Sweden) 2007
  • Junior associate at bnt Szabó Tom Burmeister Law Firm 2009-2011
  • Case handler at Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH) – Antitrust Unit 2012-2016
  • ECN Official at the European Commission - DG Competition (Brussels) 2014
  • Senior Associate/Attorney-at-law in association with DLA Piper Budapest 2016-2024
  • Admitted to the Budapest Bar in 2016
  • Member of the Hungarian Competition Law Association (from 2016)
  • Member of the Competition Law Research Center (from 2011)

Publications

  • Editor of the Hungarian chapter of Competition law analysis of price and non-price discrimination and abusive IP based legal proceedings published by Springer (2021)
  • Co-Author of the article Corporate Governance and Competition Law Sanctions in The Cambridge Handbook of Competition Law Sanctions published by Cambridge University Press (2022)
  • Co-Author of the article: Recent trends in merger control and merger control-like regulatory filing procedures and their impact on M&A transactions in Verseny és szabályozás 2022 published by KRTK Közgazdaságtudományi Intézet (2023): https://kti.krtk.hu/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/verseny2022_6_Borzsonyi_Oroszi_Virag.pdf

Awards

  • Ranked by Chambers Europe since 2021
  • Ranked as a rising start by Legal 500
  • Wolters Kluwer Legal Award: Transactional and Competition Team of the Year in Hungary (2018),

Quotes

  • Sources say: "His pragmatic approach and solid experience have been invaluable." Another client particularly appreciates that Péter "thinks of the challenges that are to be expected during an investigation well ahead of the occurrence of such challenges and thus can provide strategically appropriate advice."
    (Chambers Europe, 2021)
  • „Péter Virág has a growing reputation in the market for his experience advising on investigations initiated by the HCA, merger clearance procedure and state aid files. One client's comment: "he is responsive and constructive during the process to find the best solution to our need."
    (Chambers Europe, 2022)

Languages

  • Hungarian
  • English