About Us
The Law Firm
Dr. Vera Nagy, LL.M.
Lawyer (DE, FR, EN, HU, CZ)Dr. Vera Nagy, LL.M. worked from 2002 till 2006 as trainee lawyer at the “Simonfay & Partners” in Budapest and in 2007 she successfully passed the lawyer examination in Budapest. In 2009 she was a translator at the European Parliament in Luxembourg and in 2011 she worked as an administrator at the European General Court in Luxembourg. In 2010 she was registered as lawyer at the Budapest Bar Association and in 2006 as established European lawyer at the Vienna Bar Association.
She speaks Hungarian, German, English, French and Czech.
Mag. Geza Simonfay-Leon
Lawyer (DE, FR, EN, HU)Mag. Géza Simonfay-Leon, maîtrise joined the law firm in Vienna in 2016 and worked there as a trainee lawyer until early 2022. In 2022 he was registered as a lawyer at the Vienna Bar Association and he works as a self-employed lawyer since then. Since March 2022 he is a European lawyer registered in Hungary. He has completed his magister studies in Law at the University of Vienna and a master study programme at the University of Paris X Nanterre. Between 2013 and 2016 he has worked as a translator and legal assistant at Simonfay, Salburg & Krenn. His working languages are German, English, French and Hungarian.
Mag. Anna Katharina Simonfay
Lawyer in Austria (DE, FR, EN, HU)Mag. Anna Katharina Simonfay joined the law firm in Vienna in 2016 and worked there as a trainee lawyer until early 2022. In 2021 she completed the lawyer examination successfully and in February 2022 she was registered as a lawyer at the Vienna Bar Association. She has completed her magister studies in Law at the University of Vienna. Her working languages are German, English, French and Hungarian.
PHILOSOPHY
Based on the family background of Dr. Géza Simonfay, much of his work focuses on Hungary and Austria. After founding the law offices of “Simonfay & Partner” in Vienna, then a year later in Budapest, followed by many years in Vienna with the “Simonfay, Salburg & Krenn” law firm, he most recently established a new law firm, “Dr. Simonfay Rechtsanwalts GmbH”, with his children, Mag. Anna Katharina Simonfay and Mag. Géza Simonfay-Leon. The firm in Budapest continues its work under the name of “Simonfay & Partners”.
A solid, trusting relationship between lawyer and client is the foundation for good legal advice. In our experience, working together is the only way to identify successful, efficient and sustainable solutions to any problem. We are your legal problem-solvers and companions. With the support of the entire team, you get assistance that is legally sound and makes good business sense to help you achieve your financial goals more quickly and consistently.
Aside from our firm’s specific Eastern European expertise and our specialisation in commercial law, we also advise and represent clients in all matters of Austrian, Hungarian and European law. We have years of wide-ranging experience in civil, administrative and criminal proceedings, in all courts.
In its over 25 years of existence, our firm has successfully resolved legally challenging situations at the national and international level for leading Austrian and international companies, in close collaboration with our clients.
EXPERTISE
We are mainly specialised in business and commercial advising. We have extensive experience with M&A, business restructuring, competition law, labour law, commercial transactions, proceedings before ordinary courts and courts of arbitration, company law, tort law, real estate law, copyright law, as well as in the fields of EU law, intellectual property law, representation in cases of medical malpractice, and in the health care field in general. Our work as lawyers is informed by profound knowledge of EU law. Although our clients are mainly domestic and foreign small and medium size enterprises, we also represent a number of large companies on a continuous basis.
Another plus point is the multilingualism of our employees. The lawyers and trainee lawyers working in the law firm are fluent in German, Hungarian, French, English, Spanish, Serbian, Croatian and Czech.