Varnai & Partner Law Firm // Cathay Associates

We are Várnai & Partner Cathay Associates, a full service law firm with headquarters in Budapest and Shanghai. Our teams in these two offices have more than 100 expert advisors with international practice and experience. In addition to Hungarian we speak English, Mandarine, German, French, Romanian, South Korean and Russian. We are known for our strength in all kinds of cross border matters. We are considered to be the go-to firm for grant management, immigration matters, construction, labour and public procurement law, corporate and M&A, logistics and customs, data protection and litigation as well. Our law firm has a fully integrated consulting and legal professional services model that includes attorneys, consultants, technologists, and other experts who bring legal, strategy, analytics and execution into one place for the firm’s clients in our specialist areas. In such a complex and vast market as the EU, our foreign clients need a trusted partner who fully understands their business and the challenges they face. We bring a high level of legal experience, industry knowledge and deep collaboration with other related professional sectors to help our clients navigate uncertainty and seize new opportunities. We are the founders of Cathay Group: a China and Asia specialist business advisory with a global presence on all continents. Thanks to our full scale CEE coverage with a Budapest HQ office, we can offer our partners a real gateway to the region and beyond through Hungary as an entry point. In China we are coordinating our Asia operations from our Shanghai office and are working across a highly integrated platform of more than 250 law offices and professional advisors all around the country. Globally - being present in 88 countries worldwide -, we are on the ground where our clients need us to be and deliver tailored commercial solutions through world-class offerings and an uncompromising approach to quality and service.