Gbor Damjanovic
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Gbor Damjanovic
Managing Partner
Practice Areas
M&A, Dispute Resolution, Employment Law, Real Estate, Insolvency and IP
Sector Focus
Gaming/Betting, TMT and Energy
Professional Experience
Gbor has been practising international business law for more than 20 years. His primary focuses are transactional/projects work, dispute resolution and employment law. He has acted as lead counsel on numerous M&A transactions, joint ventures and projects, and represented a number of international clients and blue-chip companies in the resolution of their disputes.
Gbor is furthermore a specialist in the legal issues ofthe gaming/betting sector. He regularly advises operators, slot machine manufacturers, IT solution providers and concession holders, in addition to providing transactional support in the gaming sector and assisting other clients in gaming-related issues. He acts for both land-based and online clients.
Gbor is highly international oriented, having attended numerous conferences and being a regular delegate at the International Bar Associations (IBA) annual conferences. During the past decade he has forged strong relationships with a number of highly respected foreign lawyers, thus making him well placed to provide solid cross-border advice to his Hungarian clients. A significant majority of his clients are multinational and foreign corporations and he is regularly instructed by foreign lawyers on a referral basis.
Languages
- Hungarian
- English
Memberships
- Budapest Bar Association since 2000
- International Bar Association since 2003
- Listed on LCIAs database of neutrals
- Hungarian Association for the Protection of Industrial Property and Copyright
Education
- Jzsef Attila University, Szeged, 1997 Law Degree (cum laude)
- Central European University, Budapest (Master of Comparative Constitutional Law, LL.M. 1998)
Publications & Conference Presentations
- co-author of “Protecting National Assets la Hungary Unexpected Restriction To Arbitration” (Mealeys International Arbitration Report, October 2014)
- co-author of the Hungary chapter of the “Company Acquisitions Handbook” on the regulatory aspects of acquisitions in the EU (Bloomsbury Professional Limited, 2011)
- speaker of the panel on the latest developments in the regulation of online gambling in the European Union, the European Commission’s Green Paper and submissions at the Autumn Conference of the International Masters of Gaming Law held in Vienna in 2011
- speaking on the legal background of gambling in Hungary at the Affiliate Conference of iGaming Business held in Budapest in 2009
Gaming in Hungary a legal overview (Aug/Sept 2009 issue of iGBAffiliate) - speaker of the panel on Hotel and Casino Development at the Annual Conference of the IBA held in Singapore in 2007.
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