Hungarian Attorney Krisztina Toth has joined Bittera, Kohlrusz & Toth as the head of the firm's Compliance practice.
“Toth will initially focus on building a watertight compliance and ethics program for clients, with a view to expanding the practice area and offering comprehensive compliance services to other businesses in the future,” reports Bittera, Kohlrusz & Toth. “Toth joins the other ten lawyers at BKTP as a solo practitioner, and from previous compliance and data protection roles with heavyweights such as Erste Bank and Metro.'
“To create a compliance program for a client of this scale is an irresistible challenge,” said Toth. “I’m looking forward to working with the team at BKTP and to creating a sophisticated program based on integrated risk assurance, to building basic compliance-awareness across the board and ensuring that all management and staff understands, uses, and applies the basics.”
Toth obtained her J.D. from Budapest's Eotvos Lorand University in 2012. Prior to joining Bittera, Kohlrusz & Toth, she spent almost two years with the National Tax and Customs Administration of Hungary, ten months with EOS Faktor, ten months with OTP Faktoring, over a year with Gal and Partners, almost a year with Erste Bank Hungary, and over two years with Metro Cash & Carry Hungary. She spent the past 15 months as a Budapest-based solo practitioner.
“The time between identifying clients’ need for the role and finding Krisztina was mercifully short, and we’re thrilled to have found such a great fit not only for the position but also for our law firm,” said Partner Csaba Bittera. “The rising demand for transparency in business means that compliance, ethics, and data protection will continue to increase in priority, so this is an intriguing avenue for us to explore.”