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Iván Varga
Local Partner, Budapest
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Iván Varga
Local Partner
Andrássy út 11
1061 Budapest
Hungary
T: + 36 1 488 5200
F: + 36 1 488 5299
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Practice Experience
Iván Varga is a corporate lawyer and a senior member of White & Case's private equity, mergers and acquisitions and securities practice groups. He is a Hungarian and Australian qualified lawyer who has built a solid reputation for crafting innovative solutions that give clients a competitive advantage in complex, multi-jurisdictional transactions. Iván has helped a large number of clients close their transactions in Central and Eastern Europe.
Iván's know-how includes implementing a variety of mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance transactions in a wide range of industries, such as transportation, financial services, foods & beverages, energy, pulp & paper, cleantech, automotive and real estate.
A sample of the transactions that Iván has advised upon at White & Case are as follows:
Advised Ferrovial/BAA in their sale of BAA's majority stake in Budapest Airport to German construction concern Hochtief for €1.9 billion. The transaction resulted in the firm being named Airport Finance Law Firm of the Year by Jane's Transport Finance in 2007;
Represented Budapest Airport on the auction sale of its ground handling business, which was ultimately purchased by Turkish ground handling operator Çelebi;
Advised Swiss foods group Nestlé in connection with the acquisition of the Balaton chocolate wafer countline business from Győri Keksz Kft., a subsidiary of Kraft Foods;
Advised Swiss foods group Nestlé in connection with the sale of its Family Frost frozen foods business and a Hungarian ice cream factory to Eismann, a private German frozen food company and a rival of Family Frost; and
Represented Royalton Partners, a private equity firm focusing on Central Europe, with respect to the disposal of ELLA Bank Zrt., a Hungarian commercial bank, to AXA Holdings Belgium S.A.
Prior to joining White & Case, Iván practiced from 1997 to 2005 at a prestigious Hungarian law firm, where, from 2003, he was a partner specializing in mergers and acquisitions, and corporate finance transactions. Examples of his experience prior to joining White & Case include:
Advised multi-national oil company Shell, in connection with the acquisition of TotalFinaElf's Hungarian network of service stations, and the acquisition and sale of a number of service stations from and to OMV, Austria's largest oil-producing, refining and service station operating company;
Represented OMV in connection with its acquisition of the ARAL network of service stations in Hungary from BP;
Acted as counsel to Trierenberg AG, a leading Austrian paper and pulp group (since renamed Delfortgroup) in connection with the acquisition of pulp and paper mills in Hungary;
Represented the Hungarian Privatization and State Holding Company in connection with the privatization of Csepel Freeport in Budapest; and
Advised Ella Bank Zrt. (since renamed AXA Bank Zrt.) in connection with its asset-backed bond program.
Bars and Courts
Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales of Australia, 2007
Budapest Bar, 2000
Education
Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice, College of Law, Sydney, 2007
Dipl. Law, LPAB, Sydney, 2005
LLM, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 1999
Jur. Dr., Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Law, Budapest, 1997
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