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Péter Göndöcz
ATTORNEY AT LAW, PARTNER OF DELOITTE LEGAL GÖNDÖCZ AND PARTNERS LAW FIRM
BACKGROUND Péter Göndöcz earned his law degree at the University of Pécs and also holds master’s degrees in economics and politics. His wife is also an attorney, who he met, as is often the case in the world of international law firms, at work. The pair have three children, one girl and two boys.
OF WHICH ACHIEVEMENTS ARE YOU MOST PROUD? I am very proud of our purposeful, highly engaged and truly one stop shop client service that my colleagues so passionately provide to our clients. I take pride in our outstanding growth, which led us from being a five-person practice to today’s 30 lawyer strong law firm. We have successfully advised clients in some of the most complex and groundbreaking matters in Hungary, such as the highest value NPL transaction ever, or one of the very first bond issues within the framework of NKP (Növekedési Kötvény Program), and we are also famous for providing very practical and effective legal support for more operational matters, as we did for Rolls Royce, when it was setting up its Hungarian operation, for example. Our reputation for excellence not only relies on this high value service, but also on our integrity and on the highest personal, ethical and professional standards we observe in everything that we do.
WHAT DREW YOU TO LAW AS A PROFESSION? In my wider family there are quite a few lawyers, most of whom are judges. Even though I had a number of examples ahead of me, I only submitted my application to the faculty of law because my brother went there. As
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Name of law firm Deloitte Legal Göndöcz and Partners Law Firm
Name of associate non-Hungarian law firm or cooperation network Deloitte Legal
Address 1068 Budapest, Dózsa György út 84/C
Top local executive Péter Göndöcz
In charge of position since 2018
Year of Hungarian law firm's establishment 2009
No. of attorneys with license to practise in Hungary on Sept. 15, 2020 27
No. of partners of Hungarian law firm on Sept. 15, 2020 4
studying was not my number one priority in high school, it was absolutely not certain that I would actually study law. But, thank God, I prepared very well for the entrance exam and was admitted. From day one at university, I fell in love with law. As an undergraduate, when I was thinking of my potential future job as a lawyer, all I wanted to avoid was to become an attorney. I eventually applied to an international law firm just to see how it looked. Well, it looked really impressive and I found myself starting my career as a junior associate at the Budapest office of Clifford Chance. HOW DID YOU PICK YOUR LEGAL SPECIALTY AREA? I was lucky enough to start my career in the corporate M&A practice and this is still my main area of focus. The world of M&A is not just diverse, but it is also the area where commercial and financial considerations have a particularly strong role, so it gives me the opportunity to deal with my other, beyond legal areas of interest as well. As Deloitte is the leading deeply integrated financial, tax and legal M&A advisory service provider in Hungary, every day assures me that it was indeed a great choice to practice M&A.
