Dr Gábor Kutai > Siegler Bird & Bird Ügyvédi Iroda > Budapest, Hungary > Lawyer Profile

Siegler Bird & Bird Ügyvédi Iroda
Széchenyi István tér 7-8
1051 Budapest
Hungary
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Work Department

Competition & EU

Position

Senior Associate

Career

Gábor is a Senior Associate in our Competition & EU practice group based in Budapest offering full range of competition law services to our clients both at Hungarian and EU level.

He has 10+ years’ experience specializing in Hungarian and EU competition law advising clients at all stages of cartel investigations and abuse of dominance cases as well as comparative advertising and consumer protection cases in front of the Hungarian Competition Authority. He also has extensive experience advising clients under the Hungarian merger control regime and EU Merger Regulation in complex domestic and cross-border merger clearance procedures. Over the years, he has gained invaluable experience in competition law related litigation and state aid matters. He also assists clients with the competition law aspects of horizontal and vertical commercial agreements, data screening process, internal investigations and compliance matters.

What he enjoys the most working as a competition lawyer is that with every new case comes the opportunity of learning and understanding the characteristics and dynamics of a new industry sector, which is essential for proper legal advice and makes our work truly interesting and diverse.

Languages

English, Hungarian

Memberships

Budapest Bar Association

Education

  • Pázmány Péter Catholic University, JD, Law
  • Université Paris Sud XI, Erasmus studies
  • Abertay University, BA, European Business Law

Lawyer Rankings

Hungary > Competition

(Rising stars)

Gábor Kutai – Siegler Bird & Bird Ügyvédi Iroda

Covering both contentious and non-contentious matters, with particular knowledge in the field of unfair commercial practices, the competition team at Siegler Bird & Bird Ügyvédi Iroda is instructed by a diverse base of clients across Hungary and the EU. Dániel Arányi, who was promoted to partner in May 2023, leads the team, and handles the gamut of antitrust matters, cartel investigations and compliance issues. László Zlatarov boasts over 20 years’ experience handling multijurisdictional merger control filings and cartel cases. Gábor Kutai focuses on abuse of dominance and consumer protection cases, and also has expertise in state aid matters.