Kristóf Ferenczi is the Firm Managing Partner.

Kristóf has extensive executive management experience having served on Kinstellar’s Firm Management Committee since 2018 and as the Managing Partner of the Firm’s Budapest office. With over 20 years of experience, Kristóf has been with Kinstellar since the Firm’s foundation 15 years ago.

Kristóf is a renowned energy sector specialist and has served for many years as Head of Kinstellar’s energy sector team, building a successful and respected firm-wide energy sector practice. Kristóf has been consistently recognised as a Top Tier lawyer by the leading international legal directories Chambers Europe, Legal 500, IFLR1000 and other benchmark publications. His leadership, strategic vision, and dedication to the Firm have earned him a reputation as a respected and accomplished professional among his colleagues, clients and peers. 

In his role, Kristóf drives innovation and growth, focusing on keeping clients’ needs at the centre of everything Kinstellar does and thereby further enhancing the firm’s excellent standing across the dynamically changing business environments of Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. 

Kristóf is one of the best in energy law.

Kristóf is a knowledgeable, intelligent guy and good at pulling in alternative and optional solutions.

Chambers Europe, 2024 & 2025

EDUCATION

• 2001: Robert Schuman University, Strasbourg, France, Postgraduate studies in Business Law
• 2000: University Eötvös Loránd, Budapest, Hungary, Faculty of Law, Bachelor of Law
• 1995: United World College of the Adriatic, Duino, Italy, International Baccalaureate Diploma

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION

Budapest Bar Association

LANGUAGES

Hungarian, English, French, Italian