Dr. Tapolczai Nóra LL.M. (München), CITuP (Kufstein)
ügyvéd (H), attorney-at-law (H), managing partner
admitted to the Budapest Chamber of Bar Association (Hungary) since 2004
Member of the Hungarian-German Law Association, the Wirtschaftsjunioren.
Ungarn (WJU) and Member of the board of the Deutsch-
Südostosteuropäischen Juristenvereinigung e.V., Berlin
Practice Areas
Corporate Law, M&A (Real Estate Law) / Business Law,
Restructuring / Insolvency
Competition Law, Antritust Law (Compliance Law) / Government subsidies Law
Pharmaceutical Law
Employment Law
With her many years of professional experience gained while working with different international
law offices, Dr. Nóra Tapolczai provides legal advice in German, English and Hungarian language
as well primarily in relation to the complex implementation of business and corporate law, in
particular cross-border M&A transactions (including real estate based projects) and the related
fusion control and competition law issues. In relation to the impacts of the economic crisis, she
has participated in successfully restructuring the Hungarian subsidiaries of German, Austrian and
also international companies in the fields of bankruptcy and winding-up laws and has since been
representing those companies as their legal consultant.
Dr. Nóra Tapolczai has special legal knowledge and professional experience also in the field of
pharmaceutical industry including the complete development of the sales network of international
pharmaceutical companies in Hungary, and the introduction and licensing of human and
veterinary medical products in Hungary. She provides full legal representation for pharmaceutical
companies before Hungarian authorities and courts in competition law and product liability issues
related to specific products.
Languages
Hungarian, German, English, (Latin)
Career
2000 DUIHK / Legal department - professional practice
2000 – 2003 Squarra & Partos Law Office Lovells Budapest, Lovells Munich, legal trainee
2003 – 2008 Rödl & Partner Rechtsanwälte, Budapest, attorney-at-law
2008 – 2010 Radnóczy & Mészáros Nörr Stiefenhofer Lutz Iroda, later Noerr & Társai Iroda
Budapest, senior associate senior associate, later local partner
2010 – 2011 Radnóczy & Partners CEE-Lawyers LLP, partner
2012 onwards colegal Attorneys Partnership, managing partner
2012 – 2014 management board member at a Hungarian-Austrian innovative engineering
group of companies
2017 onwards Deutsch-Südosteuropäische Juristenvereinigung e.V., Berlin / Member of the
board
Studies
1994 – 2000 Legal studies Eötvös Loránd University of Science (ELTE), Budapest
1996 Scholarship Karl-Franzes Universität, (Summer University „Europarecht”), Graz,
Austria
1998 „Staat und Wirtschaft, Privatisierung in Ungarn und in Deutschland,
Sonderseminar”, Humboldt Universität, Berlin, Germany - ELTE Department of
Civil Law, Budapest
1998 – 1999 Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg, Germany (Institut für ausländisches und
internationales Privatrecht - ELTE Department of Civil Law); Erasmus-scholarship
2000 – 2003 PhD studies, ELTE Department of Civil Law (Topic Competition Law, PhD
supervisor Dr. Lénárd Darázs LL.M.)
2001 – 2003 Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, Munich, Germany; Bayerisches Staatsministerium
für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst scholarship, Post-graduate training (LL.M.
in German Law)
Research work (PhD) at Max-Planck Institut für Immaterialgüter- und
Wettbewerbsrecht, Munich, Germany
2018 „International Turnaround Professional CITuP 2018“ course, Institut für Grenzüberschreitende Restrukturierung, Kufstein, Tirol, Austria
Publikations
Magyar Jog (Hungarian Law) 1998/6, 1998/2, 1997/10, Világgazdaság 2009/10, WiRO-
Handbuch, Wettbewerbs- und Kartellrecht 2018 and numerous articles and
presentations on corporate law, insolvency law
Contact
tapolczai@colegal.hu
Dr. Gergely Balázs Szabó, LL.M.
attorney-at-law (H), partner
admitted to the Pest County Bar Association (Hungary) since 2013
Practice Areas
Sports Law
Data Protection Law
Real Estate Law
Company Law / Commercial Law / Debt collection
Dr. Gergely Balázs Szabó has valuable experience in a wide range of corporate law transactions including restructuring, winding-up, collection and settlement of debts under corporate law, as well as a various real estate transactions, and real estate development projects. Providing everyday legal service to companies, he contributes to their successful and effective operation. For this he uses his qualification in economy and his economy-oriented mind-set.
At the same time, he specializes in sports law. He represents clients before court and in out-of-court procedures.
Languages
Hungarian, English
Studies
2008 - Lawyer, Károli Gáspár University of the Hungarian Reformed Church, Faculty of Law,
Budapest
2008-2009 English language preparatory course, University of Chichester (UK);
2012 Lawyer-economist, Corvinus University of Budapest, Faculty of Business Administration,
Budapest;
2013 - bar exams;
2016 Sports lawyer, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Faculty of Law and Political Sciences,
Budapest
Professional experience
2004 - 2005 Institute of Legal Theory, Károli Gáspár University of the Hungarian Reformed Church,
Faculty of Law, Budapest
2005 – 2007 Radnay & Virág Attorneys at Law, Budapest, legal trainee
2007 – 2008 KOVÁCS Attorneys at Law, Budapest, legal trainee
2009 – 2012 Radnóczy & Partners CEE-Lawyers LLP, legal trainee
2013 onwards - colegal Attorneys Partnership, attorney-at-law, partner
International professional activities, conferences
Anti-doping Organizations’ Symposium, World Anti-Doping Agency, March 2012, Lausanne (CH);
“Doping as a Public Health Issue”, Karolinska Institutet, Professor Arne Ljungqvist Anti-Doping Foundation, September 2012, Stockholm (S);
“Practical use of ADAMS – From WADAms to NADAms”, Seibersdorf Laboratories, November 2012, Seibersdorf (A);
"Ten Years of the World Anti-Doping Code, Ten Years into the Future – The Need for New Strategies to Enhance the Fight against Doping", World Anti-Doping Agency, March 2013, Lausanne (CH);
World Conference on Doping in Sport, November 2013, Johannesburg (ZA) – member of the Hungarian delegation;
“The athlete’s Biological Passport reloaded”, Seibersdorf Laboratories, November 2013, Seibersdorf (A);
“A New Era for the Fight against Doping”, WADA Symposium, March 2014, Lausanne (CH);
"Modern approach of anti-doping policies", 15 -17 October 2014, Bucharest (RO);
,,Fair play for doping-free achievements“, National Palace of Culture, 28-29 November 2014, Sofia (BG)
"The Prohibited List - Anti-Doping Workshop", Seibersdorf Laboratories, November 2014, Seibersdorf (A);
“Optimizing the Practice of the 2015 World Anti-Doping Code”, WADA Symposium, March 2015, Lausanne (CH);
"Optimizing the Competence in European Anti-Doping Tribunals" (Legal Seminar), August - September 2015, Oslo (N);
Athlete Biological Passport (ABP) Seminar, September 2015, Copenhagen (DK);
“The WADA TD2014SSA”, Seibersdorf Laboratories, November 2015, Seibersdorf (A);
"Partnering for Quality Practice", WADA Symposium, March 2016, Lausanne (CH);
"Training Course on Information Gathering and Intelligence Sharing" (training), March 2016, Lausanne (CH);
“EU Anti-doping Conference - The fight against doping in the EU legal framework: balance between effective anti-doping measures and fundamental rights”, European Commission, June 2016, Amsterdam (NL);
“Optimizing the Management and Process of Doping Control”, Seibersdorf Laboratories, November 2016, Seibersdorf (A);
"Athlete Biological Passport Conference", Institute of National Anti-Doping Organisations (iNADO), November 2016, Newmarket (UK);
"Tackling our Challenges and Strengthening the Future of Clean Sport", WADA Symposium, March 2017, Lausanne (CH);
“The Athlete’s Biological Passport: Challenges and Experiences”, Seibersdorf Laboratories, November 2017, Seibersdorf (A);
"Preventing doping in professional and grassroots sport through education and investigation", seminar under the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, January 2018, Sofia (BG);
"Shaping the Future of Clean Sport", WADA Symposium, March 2018, Lausanne (CH);
Council of Europe Anti-Doping Symposium April 2018, Larnaca (CY).
Presentations
“Actualities in the regulation of dietary supplements’ distribution and use”, Sport security and anti-doping conference organized by the Hungarian Olympic Committee, Budapest, 7 May 2013;
"Performance enhancement from the athletes' point of view, the legal risk related to using performance enhancing substances", Morgan Stanley - Diversity Month, Budapest, 18 September 2013;
„Results management, practical experience of doping procedures”, professional training of the Hungarian Anti-Doping Group (HUNADO), the House of Hungarian Sports, Budapest, 15 October 2013
“Responsibility of athletes and sport professionals in practice”, anti-doping symposium organized by the Hungarian Olympic Committee, Hungarian Society of Sport Science and the SPORTJUS Hungarian Association of Sport Lawyers, Budapest, 27 May 2014;
“Legal protection of minor athletes in the field of fight against doping”, scientific symposium organized by SPORTJUS Hungarian Association of Sport Lawyers, Budapest, 5 November 2014;
“Mandatory elements of national stakeholders’ anti-doping rules in consideration of the Word Anti-Doping Code, 2015”, anti-doping symposium of the Hungarian Anti-Doping Group (HUNADO), the House of Hungarian Sports, Budapest, 5 December 2014.
„Sanctions in doping procedures, legal possibilities of reducing the period of ineligibility” anti-doping symposium of the Hungarian Anti-Doping Group (HUNADO), the House of Hungarian Sports, Budapest, 3 December 2015;
„Legal obligations of sport clubs in conjunction with the new Civil Code of Hungary”, Hungarian Football Association Budapest Regional Office, Budapest, 24 February 2016;
Professional anti-doping course and symposium organized by HUNADO (Hungarian National Anti-Doping Organization) for the participants of Rio2016, the House of Hungarian Sports, Budapest, 28 April 2016 and 23 May 2016.
"Results management from a NADO point of view, with special focus on steroid profile cases (case study)", Seibersdorf Laboratories (A), 28 November 2016;
Anti-doping Workshop, the House of Hungarian Sports, Budapest, 4 April 2017;
"New directions in the fight against doping, legal aspects” symposium organized by SPORTJUS Hungarian Association of Sport Lawyers, MOM Cultural Centre, 10 April 2017;
"Non-analytical anti-doping rule violations, building an effective cooperation between NADOs and the public authorities, intelligence and investigation” anti-doping workshop of the National Police Headquarters (ORFK) and HUNADO, the House of Hungarian Sports, Budapest, 12 June 2017;
"Sport development, athlete branding and doping” symposium organized by the Hungarian Competitive Sports Federation, Budapest, 19 October 2017.
UIPM International Coach Certification Program, Anti-doping course, Székesfehérvár, 8 January 2018;
"Doping as a method of manipulation", conference on manipulation in sport organized by the Hungarian Competitive Sport Federation and the Hungarian Olympic Committee, Budapest, 20 March 2018;
"Row clean! Fight against doping in dragon boat", 11th IDBF Club Crew World Championships - Anti-doping education course for international sport professionals, Szeged, 16 July 2018.
Publications
Dispute resolution in Hungarian Sport. In: Nemes András: Sports Law in Hungary, p. 93-115, Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, 2015;
Drugs and performance enhancement. Legal aspects of drug-related conducts from the point of sport. Hungarian Review of Sport Science, 2016/01
Memberships
University of Debrecen, mandated lecturer (2013);
University of Physical University, IOC International Coaching Course, Budapest, mandated lecturer (2016);
Member of Pest County Bar
Contact
szabo@colegal.hu
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