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Helga Fehér

Partner
Head of Employment, Commercial
Helga understands the company's needs and provides timely advice and guidance that is relevant to the market.
Chambers Europe, 2024
About

Helga Fehér advises clients in several areas, focusing mainly on employment law and commercial contracts.

She has been involved in international trade law and labour law cases, commercial and labour law-related litigation as well as in regulatory proceedings. She works for clients in several sectors, including aviation, manufacturing, retail and life sciences.

Helga has a wide range of experience in drafting contracts, internal manuals and policies, employment, management and consultancy agreements. She provides legal advice on the labour law aspects of corporate restructurings (including transfers and as well as large scale redundancies) and in trade union related issues. Helga provides advice and represents clients in various public proceedings, in communication with authorities (licensing) and in litigation (labour and commercial claims).

She also has been advising clients on commercial matters including drafting contracts (purchase, leasing and out-sourcing contracts), general terms and conditions as well as on legal background of marketing related issues.

She also advises companies in the Aviation sector.

Professional QualificationsLawyer (Ügyvéd) admitted to the Budapest Bar Association (Budapesti Ügyvédi Kamara)
Languages
  • Hungarian
  • English
  • German
Education
  • Eötvös Loránd University, Post-graduate degree as Lawyer specialized in Health Care Laws, 2013
  • Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Germanistics, M.Sc. in Germanistic, 1992 -1997
  • Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Law, Degree in Law, J.D.,1991 - 1996

Awards

  • Helga provides exceptional support in all matters and is highly articulate and able to approach complex matters in a pragmatic and user-friendly manner. – Chambers Europe, 2025
  • Helga Fehér is one of the best employment lawyers I have ever met, she possesses the type of up-to-date exceptional level of knowledge, that makes her one of the best in her field. – Legal 500, 2025
  • Helga Fehér is my local contact for Hungarian employment matters. She is a very responsive, pragmatic and trusted advisor. I believe she understands my needs well. – Legal 500, 2024
  • Helga understands the company's needs and provides timely advice and guidance that is relevant to the market. – Chambers Europe, 2024
  • Helga Fehér is fantastic at listening to complex legal problems and providing detailed, comprehensive and easy to understand advice. Has helped the team make sense of complicated issues which seemed insurmountable. – Legal500, 2023
  • Helga is very responsive and prompt, and her advice is always commercial and useful. – Chambers Europe, 2023

Publications

  • DLA Piper Guide to Going Global – IPT-Hungary (online handbook, 2019)
  • Guide to Transfer of Business and Acquired Employee Rights: A Practical Guide for Europe and Across the Globe, Hungarian Chapter, 2016

Rankings and Awards

  • Legal 500, 2021 - 2025, Employment, Individual Rankings: Hall of Fame
  • Chambers Europe, 2013 - 2025, Employment, (Individual Rankings): Band 1
  • Legal 500, 2016 - 2021, Employment, Individual Rankings: Leading Individual
 

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