I advise international businesses, regulated companies, scale-ups and technology teams when AI, data, cyber and product rules stop being separate legal questions and become one operating problem.
I am a Hungarian attorney-at-law and Counsel. I head the IT, Data & Cyber practice of an international law firm in Budapest, where I have practised since 2011. I teach at Károli Gáspár University, Department of Digital and Technology Law, and train at the Academy of European Law in Trier. My work typically sits between headquarters and regional teams, legal and compliance, product, security, procurement and HR. The businesses involved range from founders and SaaS scale-ups to multinational groups in life sciences, financial services, manufacturing, logistics, retail, e-commerce and digital platforms.
For US and Western European groups operating in the EU, Budapest offers a useful combination: international-firm standards, close senior involvement, practical knowledge of Central and Eastern Europe, and a proportionate delivery model for cross-border programmes.
Digital compliance is an ecosystem, not a statute list. GDPR, the AI Act, NIS2, DORA, the CRA, DSA, the Data Act, ePrivacy, accessibility, consumer and employment rules often touch the same systems, vendors, evidence and failure modes. My work is to make them run as one operating layer: clear ownership, workable process and an audit trail, not a shelf of parallel folders.
The thesis behind this journal follows from that, and I hold it with conviction: rules can be delayed, accountability cannot. Companies that treat the rulebook as accountability infrastructure ship faster than companies that treat it as paperwork. The long version is the Accountability Gap.
"…one of the most impressive lawyers in Hungary" for his knowledge of AI, regulatory and privacy matters.
What this site is: a personal field journal, essays, notes and the occasional aside, written in my own name and my own time. What it is not: a law firm, a service page or a channel for instructions. Client mandates run through my professional practice; that route, and everything else, is on the contact page.
Rules can be delayed.
Accountability cannot.
Governance is not the paperwork around the system. It is how the system remains explainable when the room gets difficult.
Portfolio Digital Compliance · BudapestThe short dossier
Institutions first: where the work, the teaching and the recognition sit. The detail remains one click away.
Counsel
Head of IT, Data & Cyber practice
International law firm, Budapest. Practice head since June 2026, in the practice since 2011. Attorney-at-law, Budapest Bar Association.
The Legal 500 · Managing IP
The Legal 500: Leading Individual, Data Privacy & Data Protection, Hungary, EMEA 2025 and 2026. Rising Star in 2024.
Managing IP, IP STARS: Rising Star, 2023 to 2026, four editions running.
AIGP · CIPP/E · CIPM
IAPP: Artificial Intelligence Governance Professional, Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe and Certified Information Privacy Manager, all current.
Advisory Board Member, Privacy Bar Section, 2025 to 2026. Co-Chair, KnowledgeNet Hungary since 2022. IAPP Volunteer Leadership Recognition.
Member of the Hungarian AI Coalition and the Hungarian Corporate Compliance Society.
University of Szeged · Pázmány
JD, University of Szeged, with further studies at Pázmány Péter Catholic University. Working languages: English and Hungarian.
WSET Level 2 in wines. The structured-assessment habit travels.
Károli Gáspár University · Academy of European Law
Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary, Department of Digital and Technology Law: visiting lecturer and instructor in the AI & EU Digital Law LLM specialisation.
Academy of European Law, Trier, invited trainer on AI and legal technology. Lead instructor for a one-day certificate AI programme with Enkonferenciám.hu.
AI Summit Budapest · Portfolio · Berlin
AI Summit Budapest, fourth year on stage; the Portfolio conferences, the Enkonferenciám.hu GDPR & AI Year-End, the Games Industry Law Summit in Berlin, and the Wolters Kluwer LegalTech Meetup with "Kód vs. Kódex".
Full speaking record ↗OneTrust DataGuidance · ComputerTrends
OneTrust DataGuidance listed Data Protection Expert and author. ComputerTrends cover contributor, with analysis in Portfolio, hvg.hu, 24.hu, Világgazdaság, Jogi Fórum and business media, plus radio commentary since 2019.
Wolters Kluwer Jogászdíj
Legal team of the year, Intellectual Property, 2018. Legal team of the year, Employment, 2019.
The certificates behind the letters
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AIGP, Artificial Intelligence Governance Professional · IAPP
CIPP/E, Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe · IAPP
CIPM, Certified Information Privacy Manager · IAPP
Advisory Board Member, Privacy Bar Section · IAPP
Volunteer Leadership Recognition · IAPP
Cross-border mandate, speaking invitation or a serious idea?
The contact page keeps professional enquiries, editorial conversations and everything else on the right route.