Claim management
Our firm undertakes the enforcement of domestic and international companies’ claims in Hungary. We handle both the enforcement of large corporate portfolios of claims and individual, stand-alone mandates, tailoring our approach to the size, complexity and commercial context of each matter.
Services
Our Services
- review of claims and legal advice on the most appropriate enforcement strategy
- providing information on the corporate and asset status of Hungarian debtors based on publicly available data
- preparation and dispatch of attorney’s formal payment demand letters
- enforcement of claims before domestic ordinary courts and before domestic and foreign arbitration tribunals
- representation in liquidation and bankruptcy proceedings
- order for payment proceedings, including European order for payment (EU payment order) matters
- preparation of enforceable deeds of debt acknowledgement, and assistance in concluding and, where necessary, enforcing them
- preparation of debt rescheduling and instalment payment agreements, as well as various security arrangements (mortgages, suretyships, guarantees, etc.), and assistance in their enforcement
- conducting judicial enforcement proceedings, representation before court bailiffs and in enforcement-related litigation
- regular representation of clients in the recognition and enforcement in Hungary of judgments and awards rendered by foreign arbitration tribunals and foreign ordinary courts against Hungarian debtors
- assistance, through our firm’s extensive network of foreign counsel, in the enforcement abroad of judgments and binding decisions rendered in Hungary against foreign debtors
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Examples from our
track record
We are managing the claims portfolio of a multinational agricultural company (100+ matters) and representing it in payment order proceedings, EU payment order proceedings, domestic court and arbitration litigation, liquidation and bankruptcy proceedings, and judicial enforcement proceedings.
We are representing the Hungarian interests of a steel industry group in connection with claim matters (several dozen cases).
We are representing an Italian industrial manufacturing company in liquidation proceedings against a Hungarian debtor, as well as in the related compensation procedure provided by the Hungarian State and the associated regulatory inspections.
We are representing the Romanian subsidiary of a multinational corporate group, in the course of which we successfully recognised and enforced a foreign arbitral award against a Hungarian debtor.
We are representing creditors in the largest agricultural-sector liquidation proceeding currently pending in Hungary, including assisting one of our clients in accessing state compensation.
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