“Gergely Szalóki is responsive, proactive and pragmatic, and delivers documents with a high level of accuracy.”

– Chambers Global

About Gergely

Gergely Szalóki is the co-leader of the Banking & Finance practice in Budapest. Gergely has almost 20 years of experience advising on banking & finance, capital markets, insurance regulatory issues and financial sector M&A transactions. He frequently acts for clients in the financial industry on both the borrower and lender side, and also provides financial regulatory advice for the banking and insurance sectors. Gergely regularly advises on the regulatory aspects of market entry, corporate restructurings, provision of cross border financial, insurance, payment services and investment services and compliance matters. Furthermore, he is continuously involved in bond issue transactions representing both managers and issuers and acts for investment funds. He is an arbitrator at the Arbitration Court attached to the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, as well as at the Vienna International Arbitral Centre in the fields of Banking & Finance and Capital Markets. Prior to joining Wolf Theiss, Gergely was a local partner and led the Banking & Finance practice of an international law firm in Hungary. Gergely frequently publishes in business and academic journals and holds a teaching position at Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest.

Expertise

Banking & Finance Capital Markets Financial Institutions Insurance Private Equity & Venture Capital Restructuring, Insolvency & Distressed Investments

Education

Károli Gáspár Protestant University, Budapest, (PhD), 2011
Emory University, World Law Institute, Budapest, 2008
Central European University, Budapest, (LL.M.), 2008
Károli Gáspár Protestant University, Budapest, (J.D.), 2005

Languages

Hungarian, English, German