A select group of Hungary’s most prominent General Counsel gathered in the offices of Squire Patton Boggs today for a unique Round Table Conversation, which will appear in the February 2017 issue of the CEE Legal Matters magazine.
The Conversation — the first such Round Table focused solely on in-house counsel organized by CEE Legal Matters in its three years of existence — was hosted and co-moderated by Partner Akos Mester of Squire Patton Boggs.
Attendees included:
- Akos Mester, Partner at Squire Patton Boggs (Host)
- Andras Levai, Head of Legal at Tesco Global Zrt.
- Anna Kis, Legal Director of Auchan Hungary
- Attila Bocsak, Head of Legal for Turk Telecom International
- Daniel Szabo, Legal Counsel South-East Europe
- Judit Pettko-Szandtner, Head of Legal & Compliance at UniCredit Hungary Bank Zrt.
- Szabolcs Gall, Chief Legal and Corporate Affairs Officer at Scitec Nutrition
- Zoltan Fenyi, Head of Leal at Sberbank
- Zsolt Wieland, Director, Advisor to the Deputy Chairman at OAO OTP Bank
CEE Legal Matters’ Managing Editor, Radu Cotarcea, was impressed with the level of insight shared in the Round Table, calling it, “a rare opportunity to hear some of the most experienced and insightful GCs on the Hungarian market share their perspectives about the challenges they face and strategies they employ in their day to day business.”