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ANDRÁS POSZTL COUNTRY MANAGING PARTNER OF DLA PIPER HUNGARY
BACKGROUND András Posztl has been the country managing partner of DLA Piper in Hungary since 2009. Before taking on that role, he was head of the firm’s M&A practice for five years. Posztl leads the Mergermarket league tables in Hungary based on volume of transactions in the country between 2005 and 2020. Under his leadership, DLA Piper Hungary has recently changed its client service model to a truly multidisciplinary one offering not only legal and tax, but also business advisory services. Posztl focuses on M&A in the energy and media sectors, and is ranked as a market leading corporate lawyer according to some top independent legal directories. Outside his professional career, he is passionate about his family, travelling and the arts. If he was not a lawyer, Posztl says he would like to create and manage a boutique hotel in the countryside. OF WHICH ACHIEVEMENTS ARE YOU MOST PROUD? In the last 12 years, DLA Piper Hungary has grown from a mid-market firm to one of the leading law firms in the Hungarian legal market in terms of quality and complexity of services offered. Recognizing the ever-
increasing client demand for one-stop-shop service solutions, we also created a multi-disciplinary service offer with our tax and financial consultants. The hard work of the DLA Piper team is reflected in many awards; the very prestigious legal directory Chambers and Partners has named us Law Firm of the Year in Hungary three times out of the last five award events, in 2016, 2017 and 2020. Our firm is ranked Tier one in 12 different categories in this and other leading independent legal directories. Learning and development have become the essence of our day-to-day operations. Acquiring and maintaining top-notch know-how, and sharing this knowledge with all our colleagues effectively, enabling them to go above and beyond what is expected from a lawyer, is the key to future success. We ran 96 internal training sessions with 1,276 participants, a lot of whom have been registered with the Bar. As a result, our attorneys have gained 521 CDP [continuing professional development] points thus far. In terms of talent management, a highlight is the professional competition for undergraduates. This year, we had more than 140 participants. In the final we had
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