Orsolya Görgényi

Senior Partner

PRACTICE AREAS

Orsolya Görgényi is a transactional lawyer specialising in cross-border M&A, corporate law and international business transactions. For more than two decades, she has advised multinational companies, foreign investors and Hungarian businesses on establishing, acquiring and expanding operations in Hungary and abroad.

 

Her practice focuses on international transactions, private and public M&A, joint ventures, venture capital and private equity investments, privatizations and corporate restructurings. She also advises on the corporate, employment and tax aspects of transactions and has extensive experience in coordinating complex cross-border projects involving multiple jurisdictions. In addition, she is active in business mediation, facilitating effective communication between parties.

 

Orsolya is actively involved in several Hungarian and international professional organisations. She served as President of AIJA (International Association of Young Lawyers) in 2015–2016 and, since 2018, has been Secretary of the Budapest Bar Association responsible for international affairs.

 

A regular speaker at international legal conferences, Orsolya is known for delivering engaging, TED-style presentations on legal and business topics.

 

Her professional philosophy is: “I help clients cross borders – both geographic and business ones.”

 

She is fluent in English and German and conversant in French and Spanish.

Rankings:

  • Legal500, 2022 – 2026, Corporate/M&A (Individual ranking): Leading Partner
  • Legal500, 2017 – 2026, Corporate/M&A (Team): Tier 2

 

 

  • IFLR1000, 2025, Corporate/M&A (Individual ranking): Highly Regarded
  • IFLR1000, 2016 – 2025, Corporate/M&A (Team): Tier 2

 

Awards:

  • 2023 – Eötvös Károly Prize by the Budapest Bar Association (awarded to lawyers who have improved the reputation of the legal profession, practised their profession in an exemplary manner, and with the utmost respect for the interests of their clients and the rule of law)
  • 2017 – Elected as Fellow of the American Bar Foundation
  • 2017 – “Honorary President” of AIJA (appointed by the general assembly in recognition of her valuable contribution as former president of the association)
  • 2016 – “Exemplary Lawyer” Award by the Hungarian Bar Association in recognition of exemplary dedication to the highest principles of the legal profession

Bar Memberships:

  • Budapest Bar Association [HU] – member since 2002; since 2018 Secretary of the Budapest Bar Association in charge of international affairs

 

Other professional memberships:

  • AIJA (International Association of Young Lawyers): AIJA President 2015-2016 after holding many other positions in the association. She served as vice-president Skills, Career, Innovation, Leadership & Learning (SCILL) at AIJA in 2017-2020. She has been active in the M&A commission of AIJA for over a decade and has organized and spoken at a number of M&A seminars held across the globe.
  • ELTA (European Legal Technologies Association): ambassador until 2019, board member 2019-2021
  • DAV (German Bar Association): extraordinary member, since 2018 board member of the International Business Law section (IWR)
  • ABA (American Bar Association): Section of International Law, Business Law Section, Law Practice Management Division member, Non-US Lawyer Representative of the ABA SIL Council in 2017-2018.
  • IBA (International Bar Association): member of the Closely Held Companies Committee and the Corporate and M&A Committee
  • UIA (International Association of Lawyers): member
  • IPBA (Inter-Pacific Bar Association): Chair of the Legal Practice Committee, 2025-2027
  • MSZCT (Association of the Hungarian Supervisors and Supervisor-Coaches): member
  • OME (Hungarian Mediation Association): member
  • Toastmasters International: member
  • Conflict Manager (WIFI  – Business Promotion Institute of the Vienna Chamber of Commerce), 2024
  • LL.M. degree in Transnational Commercial Practice from Lazarski University / CILS; 6 courses at Boston University School of Law’s Executive LLM in International Business Law Program, 2013-2015
  • Registered mediator and qualified tax advisor, 2014
  • Multiregional professional exchange program (International Visitor Leadership Program – IVLP) by the U.S. Department of State, Office of International Visitors, 2012
  • 2-year postgraduate business consulting, organizational development and supervision studies program at the International Business School, 2005
  • J.D., Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Law (Summa cum laude), 1998

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