Lawyers are keeping busy with new legislation, dispute resolution, and technology work in Hungary, while transactional work and FDIs show a marked slowdown, according to DLA Piper Hungary Country Managing Partner Andras Posztl.

Lextal has advised digital asset platform Blocktrade on the launch of its new BTEX token which raised over EUR 5 million to date.

Kinstellar, working with William Fry and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, has advised human capital management cloud company UKG on its acquisition of payroll provider Immedis.

The Legal Monitoring Report deals with amendments to the Law on Joint Stock Companies and the Compulsory Licensing Mechanism, ratification of the Agreement on the Transportation of Goods, and approval of Legal Framework on Cuber Security, the FISCALIS Agreement and Ecolabel Regulations.

The Hungarian telecoms market saw several major transactions during the past few years, with 2022 and early 2023 witnessing undoubtedly the largest transaction in decades: the acquisition of Vodafone Hungary by 4iG (51%) and state-owned Corvinus Zrt. (49%) for a deal value of approximately EUR 1.7 billion.

Lithuania may find itself in economic turmoil, but it is also experiencing strong political unity in the face of the war in Ukraine, according to Motieka & Audzevicius litigation Partner Justinas Jarusevicius.