Torsten Braner

Torsten is the Head of our Budapest office. He advises clients from a broad range of industries on corporate and banking & finance law.

He’s also recommended for his commercial and employment advice to national and international clients.

Torsten can support you with your corporate and banking & finance needs and provides specialist commercial as well as employment and pensions advice. He works with clients from a wide span of sectors, including consumer & retail, energy, finance, insurance, logistics & transport and technology, media & communications. His support expertise in corporate matters covers the full range of advice, including M&A transactions, syndicate agreements for startups, corporate restructurings and general corporate issues. As regards employment law, he and his team are especially focussed on finding the right solutions for their clients coming from the industries of tomorrow.

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Career

Since 2013	Partner, Taylor Wessing
2006 – 2012	Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing e\|n\|w\|c
2005 – 2006	Associate, Squarra & Partos in cooperation with Lovells

2003 – 2004	Associate, Rittershaus, Mannheim and Gassner and Stockmann & Kollegen, Heidelberg, Germany
2002 – 2004	Legal clerkship, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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Education

2006	Admitted to the bar, Hungary
2006	Admitted to the bar, Germany
2004 – 2006	Postgraduate studies (LL.M.), European law and comparative law, Andrássy University Budapest

1997 – 2002

Legal studies, University of Heidelberg, Germany

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Publications

Hungarian Corporate Law with special regard to the Law concerning the Hungarian Private Limited Company, 3rd edition, Zerb Publishing House, 2015

Numerous articles in Hungarian trade magazines and economic media titles

Memberships & Associations

Budapest Bar Association

Karlsruher Bar Association

Additional languages

English

German

Experience

Berenberg Bank on the financing of the Hungarian solar park Szügy

Comprehensive legal advice to German private bank Berenberg regarding the financing and the review of the borrower legal due diligence in connection with the development of the Hungarian solar park "Szügy" (65 MWp) of the international EPC & solar park developer Greencells Group, for which the Berenberg Green Energy Junior Debt Fund III provides junior debt financing for the construction and commissioning phase.

Awards

Legal500 2021	Recommended lawyer – Employment: "Torsten Braner is not only very deep into his fields of practice but also super-quick and highly pragmatic in answering our questions – with a great understanding of companies’ needs."
Legal 500 Europe, Middle East and Africa 2019	Recommended lawyer - Employment (Hungary): Taylor Wessing Hungary handles a range of contentious and non-contentious employment issues for clients including Realeyes. Practice head Torsten Braner and Zoltán Novák are noted.