Edina Schweizer

Ügyvéd, Associated Partner

Banking & Finance
Capital Markets
Restructuring & Insolvency

Edina Schweizer

Edina Schweizer is an associated partner and head of the Banking & Finance team in our Budapest office. She is also co-head of Noerr’s CEE Banking & Finance practice. Edina is highly respected for her advice to both lenders and borrowers on a variety of complex domestic and cross-border banking and finance transactions. These include syndicated and club loans, project finance, real estate finance, acquisition finance, structured and leveraged finance, NPLs, debt restructurings, insolvency and banking regulatory matters. Apart from this, Edina has substantial experience in advising on capital markets and securities transactions, including share and bond issues, IPOs, stock exchange listings, securitisation, derivatives (ISDA) and capital markets regulatory matters.

Distinctions

  • ‘Edina presents us with an array of options with a brief summary of the risks. This approach enables an efficient and well-informed decision making.' (Chambers Global 2024)
  • 'She is supportive and extremely precise.' (Chambers Global 2023)
  • Edina Schweizer assists clients with loan restructurings, syndicated loans and amendments to existing loans. One client reports that she is "a good communicator who provides user-friendly advice and simplifies very dry and complicated matters." Edina Schweizer frequently advises banks and real estate developers on real estate financing mandates. (Chambers Global 2022)
  • 'Edina Schweizer is a rock star – she’s at the top of her game.' (The Legal 500 EMEA 2021 edition)
  • ‘Clients acclaim Edina Schweizer for being 'very client-friendly and hyper-smart,' while other sources deem her to be 'an experienced strategic thinker'. Schweizer's wide range of experience includes acting for lenders and borrowers on high-value financing transactions.' (Chambers Global 2021)
  • ‘Recommended as a leading lawyer banking and finance lawyer (Chambers Global and Chambers Europe 2016 to 2018)
  • ‘Counsel Edina Schweizer recently assisted with various project finance and syndicated lending transactions. She receives praise for being 'very experienced in drafting agreements.' (Chambers Global and Chambers Europe 2017)
  • ’Multilingual counsel Edina Schweizer’ is recommended as being ’smart and enthusiastic’, (Legal500 2016)

Career

Studied law at the University of Pecs
Postgraduate studies in banking and finance law at the Pazmany Peter University in Budapest
Junior associate at a law firm associated with a Big Six accounting firm
Associate in corporate and banking at a Magic Circle law firm
Managing associate and most recently counsel in banking and capital markets at a Magic Circle law firm and later its regional spin-off
At Noerr since 2017
Admitted to the Budapest Chamber of Lawyers