Budapest - Team

Csaba Polgár

Partner
Csaba Polgár
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Csaba Polgár is one of the founding partners of Pontes Budapest. He leads the energy, infrastructure and project finance and arbitration groups in the Budapest office. His main areas are renewable project developments, acquisitions, divestments and financings, with special emphasis on solar projects. He also has substantial experiences in loan restructurings, NPL acquisitions and insolvency matters. Before establishing Pontes Budapest, Csaba spent more than seven years with Allen & Overy’s Budapest and London Offices working on energy matters and cross border M&A deals.

Gábor Bebők

Partner
Gábor Bebők
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Gábor Bebők is a founding partner of Pontes Budapest and now leads the Corporate and M&A practices. He is also in charge of conducting an extensive PE/VC activity of the firm. Before establishing Pontes Budapest, Gábor spent more than eight years with Hayhurst Berlad Robinson, a spin-off of Stikeman Elliott in Hungary.  

Katalin Sirály

Of-counsel
Katalin Sirály
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Katalin is an of-counsel of Pontes Budapest. She leads the public sector, public procurement, European Union law, and state aid practices.
A licensed public procurement adviser, she often represents both contracting authorities and tenderers in complex, high value public procurement procedures. She also regularly advises all stakeholders with relation to various EU subsidy programmes. Her main clients include large utility companies; local government owned companies in the field of public transport, road operation, maintenance and cultural organizations. 

Dr. Szilvia Kassai

Of-counsel
Dr. Szilvia Kassai
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Szilvia is an of-counsel at Pontes Budapest.

Szilvia obtained in-depth transactional and project experiences at market leading law firms. In addition to this, she worked for energy infrastructure and development firms as general legal counsel. She has gained extensive experiences in energy, environmental law and civil law matters, as well as with mergers and acquisitions and general corporate law related cases.

Tibor Szántó

Of-counsel
Tibor Szántó
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Tibor is of-counsel at Pontes Budapest. Tibor is a specialist in competition law and regulated industries, with more than 20 years of experience gained as a private practitioner and as a regulator. He spent a decade at various positions with the European Commission and the Hungarian Competition Authority, including for years as member of the Competition Council of the Hungarian authority. Before starting his competition boutique, he spent a decade with various international law firms.