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DAVID DEDERICK MANAGING PARTNER, SIEGLER BIRD & BIRD ÜGYVÉDI IRODA
BACKGROUND David Dederick is the managing partner of the Budapest Office of Bird & Bird. He is a U.S.-qualified attorney and has been practicing law in Central and Eastern Europe since 1991. Prior to joining Bird & Bird in 2018, he was managing partner of Weil, Gotshal & Manges’ Budapest office for nearly 20 years. His practice is primarily focused on international, cross-border corporate/M&A, private equity and real estate transactions. He has been consistently recognized and ranked as a leading lawyer in his main practice areas by top law firm ratings guides. In its 2020 edition, he was named to the Legal 500 “Hall of Fame” for his M&A practice. Chambers Global and Chambers Europe have recognized him an “Eminent Practitioner” in M&A for the past five years. His practice is also regional in scope and includes other markets in Central and Eastern Europe, in particular South East Europe, as well as emerging markets elsewhere in the world.
He is a native of Stony Brook, New York and attended Cornell University and George Washington University Law School. OF WHICH ACHIEVEMENTS ARE YOU MOST PROUD? In my more than 30 years of practice, I have had many achievements and successes. Early in my career, I was particularly proud of the work we were doing for the U.S. Government Enterprise Fund program, which began in 1990. The idea behind this foreign assistance program was that the way to kick-start a private market economy in a post-communist state is to invest in the private sector. In all, I handled more than 70 investment transactions, not only for the fund in Hungary but elsewhere in the region, including Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The Enterprise Fund Program was instrumental in helping launch the private equity industry in the region. Also, the benefits of the program to host countries in terms of the growth and establishment of private businesses and creation of new jobs, gave the sense of both “doing good, and doing well.”
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