Business Advisory

Strategic advice on complex business challenges

Global institutions face the most complex environment in decades, from the rise of AI to turbulent geopolitics. We advise global institutions on their most pressing challenges and opportunities, including on complex transactions, international growth, and AI and emerging technologies.

DLA Piper Business Advisory provides solutions to clients' complex challenges through integrated teams of highly experienced advisors and lawyers. Our client service centres on DLA Piper’s strengths as a leading global law firm and addresses client challenge and opportunities through consulting and advisory services beyond the law.

Our international advisory team has developed our services drawing from decades of experience in strategy, corporate finance, cross-border M&A, government, and emerging technologies including artificial intelligence.

We help clients build robust strategies in the face of rapid change, navigate geopolitical uncertainty, secure growth and investment opportunities with confidence, and position themselves for success in an era of technological disruption.

“Senior decision-makers need to know they're getting the best advice from a team who understand the technological, commercial, legal and regulatory challenges they face.”

AI and emerging technologies

Emerging technologies present strategic and operational challenges and opportunities for global institutions and investors. Technologies such as AI are moving faster than the ability of most organisations to respond, influencing industry economics and competitive dynamics, while regulators struggle to provide the certainty businesses would prefer.

Our team has deep experience in building, deploying and investing in AI and other emerging and disruptive technologies. We work closely with experienced technologists, operators, corporate financiers, and regulatory and intellectual property lawyers to help craft effective strategies, build partnerships and joint ventures, and invest with confidence.

Global strategy and growth

Growth opportunities are becoming increasingly complex, requiring an understanding not just of the commercial economics, but also of the operating complexities, partnership choices, regulatory barriers, and geopolitical challenges of cross-border growth. Global organisations built for a relatively flat world are adjusting to new realities and constraints.

We bring together senior advisors, experienced lawyers and other experts from our global firm to help our clients navigate the complexities – commercial, operational, strategic, regulatory and geopolitical.

Complex transactions and partnerships

Making major growth and investment decisions requires confidence in the scale of the opportunity and direct advice on how best to manage and mitigate risks. Securing an investment or partnership increasingly relies on an ability to bring together stakeholders from disparate domains – technology, sovereign investors, global corporates and governments – to create a distinctive route to value.

Our team has advised many of the leading private and sovereign investors in the world on some of their largest and most complex investments, mergers, and partnerships. We work closely with lawyers advising on corporate structures, transactions, and other disciplines.

Regional services

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Relying on our outstanding business valuation expertise, we help our clients determine the market value of businesses, business units, investment projects, loans and financial instruments, or even intangible assets (software, brands, contracts), real estate, machinery or other assets, whether it is a purchase transaction or matters, regulatory issues, domestic or international accounting (IFRS) issues, or even tax issues.

We provide comprehensive advisory support in connection with loan financing for companies and projects, both on the financier's or borrower's side, in connection with ongoing operations or financing, refinancing or restructuring of new projects. We help companies to develop their financing strategy, to raise funds, to tender and negotiate with banks, and to compile loan application documents (financial planning, feasibility studies, information memorandum). We assist funders in preparing and reviewing business plans and feasibility studies.

Our experts provide an integrated end-to-end transaction advisory service during company sales and acquisitions, from preparation for the transaction to the signing of the sales contract and the closing of the transaction.

Our services include developing strategic goals, identifying and tracing the right potential investors and acquisition targets, implementing the entire due diligence process, defining key risks and their management, and supporting our clients ’business in transaction negotiations. DLA Piper Hungary complements our many years of business and transaction consulting experience in many industries with its international legal transaction consulting expertise.

As a financial expert, with the involvement of partners, as an independent forensic expert and as an expert witness, we assist our clients in resolving disputes in arbitration or litigation, such as economic damages, transaction disputes, bankruptcy proceedings, regulatory or accounting issues. We support our clients in quantifying and substantiating their claims based on objective evidence, or in reviewing forensic expert opinions.

We provide consulting services related to market survey and market analysis to our clients to examine the validity of strategic goals and business plans, as well as to prepare greenfield investments and company acquisition efforts. Our experts have extensive experience and networking in many industries in Hungary and the region, based on which we conduct a comprehensive analysis of macroeconomic characteristics, relevant regulatory issues, market size, market trends and competitors.

Our employees have outstanding experience in performing economic and financial advisory tasks related to highly regulated industries, the special, legally defined operating environment of which requires specific expertise, such as energy, the financial sector and the life sciences. Our experts also help to deal with other business situations that are strictly regulated by law, such as stock market delistings, economic analyzes related to the European Commission's market economy investor principle (MEIP test), contributions and other capital operations, insolvency proceedings (liquidation and reorganization) and transfer pricing issues for related party transactions. Our colleagues work closely with DLA Piper Hungary's experienced lawyers for full legal compliance.