Meet our team!
GÁBOR PAKSI Dr.
Attorney at Law, Partner
+36 30 957 3395
gabor.paksi@paksiugyved.hu
Gábor is a partner attorney specialising in environmental law, energy law and public procurement law at Paksi Law Firm, andhead of the Environment Group and the Project&EnergyGroup.
He is a qualified environmental lawyer and company lawyer, and is a lawyer registered as an accredited public procurement consultant. He has two decades of experience in the full range of public procurement procedures, primarily in environmental (water quality, waste, remediation, flood protection), energy (solar, biomass, biogas, energy efficiency), infrastructure (road, road and rail bridges) and building construction projects. He has extensive experience in the preparation and conclusion of FIDIC construction contracts, FIDIC contract performance and legal advice on EU grants.
Gábor is a member of the Board of the National Association of Public ProcurementConsultants, and head of the Green Working Group. He is an invited lecturer at the Department of Civil Procedural Law of ELTE, lectures at the ELTE Jotoki Public Procurement Lawyer course and at the Corvinus University of Budapest, where he is a public procurement manager. Gábor is a PhD student in the field of environmental protection at the National University of Public Service.
Gábor participated in the drafting of the Code of Civil Procedure and in the work of the working committees on the subject. From 2019 to 2024, he is an environmental partner attorney at PROVARIS Varga&Partners Lawyers Association.
„The projects, energy and public procurement practice at PROVARIS Varga & Partners specialises in pharmaceutical procurement, environmental projects, infrastructure investment and waste management. Practice head Gábor Paksi is highly regarded for his knowledge of public procurement procedures.” – Legal500, 2024
Memberships
•Attorney at Law, member of the Budapest Bar Association 36066643 KASZ since 2010.
•Member of the Board and Head of the Green Public Procurement Team in the Hungarian Official Public Procurement Advisors’ Association (PPAA)
•Member of the Professional Board of Accredited Public Procurement Consultant
•Accredited public procurement consultant in the register of the Public Procurement Authority
•Dispute adjudicator of FIDIC and TMSZ
•AmCham Sustainable Growth Committee, member
•Hungarian Lawyers Association
Education and Degrees
LL.M. in environmental law, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, 2019.
LL.M. in corporate law, Eötvös Loránd University, 2008.
FIDIC, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 2009.
J.D., Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 2004.
Working Languages
Hungarian
English
MELINDA KISS Dr., LL.M
Attorney at Law
+36 30 192 3084
melinda.kiss@paksiugyved.hu
Melinda graduated from Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Law in Budapest, Hungary with a JD Degree (summa cum laude) in 2016.
During the autumn semester of the 2014 academic year, Melinda was an Erasmus scholar at the University of Helsinki Faculty of Law in Finland, where she studied International Law, EU Law and EU Consumer Law. During his law studies she was a demonstrator in the Department of Civil Law for one year.
Melinda graduated from the Deák Ferenc Institute of Law at Pázmány Péter Catholic University in 2019.
At our law firm Melinda focuses on matters involving public procurement law, competition law, civil law as well as civil procedure law.
Education and Degrees
LL.M. in public procurement law, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, 2019
J.D., Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 2016.
Attorney at Law, member of the Budapest Bar Association since 2021.
Certifications
LL.M. in environmental law
Working Languages
Hungarian
English
DALMA SZLOVÁK Dr.
Attorney at Law
+36 70 458 3323
dalma.szlovak@paksiugyved.hu
Profil
Dalma graduated from Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Law with cum laude in 2019.
During her law studies, she focused mainly on civil law and labour law.
During her years as a candidate lawyer, she has been involved in and gained extensive experience in new real estate projects, real estate transactions and legal due diligence.
At our law firm Dalma focuses on matters involving enviromerntal law, energy law, business law as well as employment law.
Education and Degrees
J.D., Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 2019.
Law exam, 2023.
Attorney at Law, member of the Somogy Bar Association since 2023.
Working Languages
Hungarian
German
English
ATTILA TIBORCZ Dr.
Attorney at law, Partner, Tiborcz&Zebegnyei Law Firm
+36 70 289 0182
info@paksiugyved.hu
Attila handles international and online commerce, start-ups, corporate law, real estate, consumer protection, labor law, intellectual property and creative industry-related issues for international clientele. He has solid experience in the strategic planning and execution of running small and medium-sized businesses in Hungary, offering a legal and business perspective as well as in-depth knowledge of the Central-Eastern European business environment. He contributed to the establishment and development of the first Chinese-European law firm now having offices in 30+ cities in China, in the US, Europe and South America.
Attila believes that clients need a wide range of services from a trustworthy and thoroughly professional who understands both the business he assists and the person behind it.
Education and Degrees
He is a graduate of Law and Political Sciences, Economics. He attended the Robert Schumann Institute for Higher European Studies in France, studied in the United States and delivered lectures on European Law, labor law and European business environment.
Working Languages
Hungarian
English
Chinese
KATALIN SULYOK Dr.
External consultant
+36 20 4126951
info@paksiugyved.hu
Dr Katalin Sulyok is helping the team of Paksi Law Firm as an external consultant on matters of international, EU and domestic environmental law.
Dr Katalin Sulyok is a leading scholar in environmental law in Hungary. She is currently Assistant Professor in Environmnental Law and International Law at ELTE Law School. She holds a summa cum laude law degree from ELTE Law School and a Bachelor’s degree in Biology. In 2016 she obtained an LL.M. degree from Harvard Law School as a Fulbright Scholar. She earned her PhD in International Law in 2018, and her habilitation in 2024. Her main research areas include environmental adjudication, causation in law, human rights-based protection of the environment, the case law of the European Court of Human Rights, environmnetal liability, and climate litigation.
At ELTE Law School, Dr Sulyok is responsible for teaching the main, obligatory lecture course on Environmental Law, which combines questions of domestic environmental law and EU environmental law and policy. She is also teaching subjects on international environmental law and climate law. In 2024, she was appointed as Visiting Professor in International Climate Law at Vienna University. Since 2014 she has been Chief of Staff and later as Chief Legal Advisor at the Office of the Ombudsman for Future Generations.
Her PhD dissertation was awarded Pro Dissertatione Iuridica Excellentissima Prize by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Henry Wheaton Prize given by the Institut de Droit International. Her dissertation will be published by Cambridge University Press as a monograph entitled „Science and Judicial Reasoning: The Legitimacy of International Environmental Adjudication” in 2020. Dr Sulyok is publishing in leading interantional journals and a regular speaker at international conferences regarding subjects related to environmental law and climate law. She was a Visiting Leibniz Fellow in the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg, and in a Visiting Scholar at the Lauterpacht Center and C-EENRG Center at Cambridge University, and at Sorbonne University.
Working Languages
Hungarian
English
MÓROTZ ATTILA
Environmental and R&D&I Grant Consultant
+36 30 3853714
info@paksiugyved.hu
ZOLTÁN KATÓ Dr.
Attorney at Law
+36 30 396 6451
info@paksiugyved.hu
Dr. Zoltán Kató has extensive experience in advising companies on corporate and commercial matters. His clients include operators providing distribution and postal services as well as groups of companies active in the retail sector. He regularly provides legal support in connection with the management and operation of retail, office and warehouse properties, including assistance in the preparation and finalisation of letters of intent and lease and operating agreements. He has been involved in the planning and implementation of a number of real estate transactions. His work has involved liaising with a clientele working mainly in English.
Practice Areas
Corporate & Commercial
RE law (transactions, asset management and operations)
Education and Degrees
2004 Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Law, graduation as lawyer
2008 Bar exams
2008- member of the Budapest Bar Association
Professional experience
2004 internship, Hungarian Export-Import Bank, Budapest
2004 – 2006 legal trainee, Haarmann Hemmelrath Attorneys at Law, Budapest
2006 – 2008 legal trainee, bpv | LEGAL Budapest
2008 – 2010 attorney at law, bpv | LEGAL Budapest
2010 – attorney at law, |KꞰ|LEGAL Budapest
Working Languages
Hungarian
English
ISTVÁN CSEPREGI Dr.
External Consultant
+36 30 388 5310
info@paksiugyved.hu
István is a lawyer specialising in environmental, nature conservation, waste management regulation and administration. He has worked for two decades in the environment and nature conservation administration, as legal adviser to the Ministry’s Nature Protection Office, then deputy head of the legal and regulatory department of the changing Ministry, then head of the department and deputy state secretary for administrative and legal affairs, and between 2002 and 2006 he was a senior government official. After his appointment as head of the National Environmental Protection Agency, he worked in the private sector as an environmental consultant and from 2017 to 2023 he was Director of the Association of Public Waste Management Services (PES), the professional representative body of public waste management services.Translated with DeepL.com (free version)
During his professional career, he worked as a codifier of the Law on the Protection of Nature, but also contributed to the drafting of the laws on environmental protection, waste management, environmental product fees, animal protection and their implementing legislation.
Since the early 1990s, he has been a lecturer at several universities and the Hungarian Institute of Public Administration and its successors, in 2004 he was awarded the title of honorary associate professor at the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Debrecen, in 2013 at the Faculty of Forest Engineering of the University of West Hungary, and in 2019 he was awarded the title of honorary associate professor at the Georgikon Faculty of the University of Pannonia. At the Deák Ferenc Institute for Continuing Education of the Pázmány Péter Catholic University and the ELTE Institute for Continuing Education in Law, he is a lecturer in environmental law (general and special part of environmental law).
Education and Degrees
J.D. Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 1989
Law exam (Board of Legal Examiners, 1991)
Human ecologist , Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Science, 1995
Regulatory (codification) lawyer (Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Law Institute for Postgraduated Legal Studies, 2006)
István has published more than 80 articles, books and publications on environmental protection, nature conservation and waste management since 1991. In addition to his teaching activities, he regularly gives lectures on environmental, nature conservation, waste management and public administration.
He has received several awards for his professional work, including the Pro Natura Award in 2009 and the Hungarian Golden Cross of Merit in 2023. In 2022, the Association of Environmental Service Providers and Manufacturers recognised his work with the Award for the Protection of the Environment in the individual category.
Working Languages
Hungarian
ILDIKÓ ZSOMBOK
Head of Secretariat
+36 30 385 3714
ildiko.zsombok@paksiugyved.hu
Ildikó graduated from the Juhász Gyula Pedagogical Faculty of the University of Szeged in 2012.
Ildikó is the head of the secretariat of our office, her main task is to ensure and coordinate the operation of the office and to take care of the organisational tasks.
Education and Degrees
University of Szeged Gyula Juhász Faculty of Education
Working Languages
Hungarian
English