Former Kinstellar Counsel Edina Schweizer has joined Noerr as Associated Partner in Budapest and Head of the firm's local Banking & Finance team. She will also assume the role of Co-head of Noerr’s CEE Banking and Finance Practice, which works across the firm's core CEE countries of Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Hungary.
Schweizer has worked at Kinstellar for the past eight, and two years before that with Linklaters, before that firm withdrew from Hungary. She also spent three and a half with Freshfields, and she spent the first four years of her professional career as a Junior Associate with Arthur Andersen.
According to Noerr, Schweizer "has built a reputation as a leading lawyer with outstanding experience acting for both lenders and borrowers on a variety of complex domestic and cross border banking and finance transactions. Such transactions have included syndicated and club loans, project finance, real estate finance, acquisition finance, structured and leveraged finance, NPLs, debt restructurings, insolvency and banking regulatory matters. She is also well-experienced in advising on capital markets and securities transactions, including share and bond issues, IPOs, stock exchange listings, securitization, derivatives (ISDA) and cap markets regulatory matters."
Andreas Naujoks, Global Head of Noerr’s Practice Group Banking & Finance, praised his new colleague, saying, "we are delighted to strengthen our finance capacity in CEE. With Edina, we have gained a highly experienced lawyer with excellent know-how."
Zoltan Nadasdy, Head of Noerr’s Budapest office, commented that, “Edina will bring significant value to our growing Budapest office in a number of areas which we are committed to develop and we are proud to have her with us.”
Joerg Menzer, Head of Noerr’s CEE offices added: “Edina’s extensive knowledge of the finance markets and her solid professional standing will add from day one to Noerr’s dedication to build our practice further in the banking and finance area across the CEE region and in close cooperation with our German offices.”
