Dr. Benedek Pillér Attorney-at-Law

Legal stability. Decisive representation.

Areas of Expertise

Compliance

My services include expert support for the business activities of capital market participants, in particular the drafting and, where necessary, the review of internal regulatory documents, the performance of compliance functions, record-keeping, the preparation of responses to requests from authorities, and liaising with authorities.

Capital Markets Licensing

In the course of my work, I have gained extensive knowledge and experience in the establishment of investment firms and investment fund managers, in supporting their operations, and in the creation, transformation and termination of investment funds. In addition to operational matters, my practice covers licensing procedures of capital market participants before the Central Bank of Hungary (MNB), in particular personal, activity and product licensing.

Capital Markets Transactions

My several years of experience in regulatory investigations enable me to provide comprehensive legal support in the execution of capital market transactions, ensuring that they are carried out in accordance with national and EU law.

Issuer Compliance

My experience with national and EU authorities enables me to provide full legal support in issuer compliance, in particular in fulfilling issuers' notification and disclosure obligations, handling inside information, the notification obligations of persons discharging managerial responsibilities, preparing public takeover bids, and designing and implementing share buyback programmes.

Litigation and Non-Contentious Representation

Full representation in criminal proceedings concerning market abuse (insider dealing, market manipulation).

Portrait of Dr. Benedek Pillér, attorney-at-law

About

Regulatory experience in capital markets

I began my career as a legal officer with the Hungarian Riot Police, and from 2018 I worked at the Central Bank of Hungary in market supervision and investment fund manager supervision, as a supervisor and later as a senior supervisor. I was a delegated member of the market abuse working group of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA). Since mid-2025, I have been advising capital market participants.

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Meetings by prior appointment at Széchenyi István tér 7–8., 1051 Budapest.