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ANDREA JÁDI NÉMETH
YOUR LEGAL KEY TO HUNGARY
MANAGING PARTNER, BPV JÁDI NÉMETH ÜGYVÉDI IRODA
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managing partner in Hungary, Jádi Németh has been overseeing the law firm’s entire operations for 14 years. Last year she earned a Master’s in strategy and innovation from the Säid Business School of Oxford University, in the United Kingdom. For two years, she have been a senior lecturer at Corvinus University, where she teaches innovation management and change management. Besides Hungary, Jádi Németh is also licensed to practice law in New York. OF WHICH ACHIEVEMENTS ARE YOU MOST PROUD? If we consider professional awards and recognitions, I am undoubtedly most proud of my shortlisting by “The Lawyer” Magazine for the category “Managing Partner of the Year” in Europe five years ago. Although I did not win the award, among the four European finalists I was the “runner up”, having been laureated as “Highly Commended” by the international jury. Also, I
BACKGROUND Andrea Jádi Németh earned her law degree at ELTE, then worked as in-house counsel for MALÉV Hungarian Airlines for three years. As the only lawyer in the legal department speaking German and Russian, she was brought into intricate international transactions almost from day one. After a year at MALÉV, Jádi Németh was appointed to oversee the implementation of its Supervisory Board decisions, which gave her an invaluable insight into the internal processes of a large corporation. In 1999, she was admitted to the LL.M. program of Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the United States. Back from Harvard, Jádi Németh joined a rapidly expanding international firm specialized in highest level multidisciplinary transactional counseling. After four years of practice and two years of partnership, she co-founded bpv LEGAL, an alliance of independent law firms providing premium legal services from key locations in CEE. As the
“I have always seen lawyers as professionals who connect the dots in their communities. We create bridges through our knowledge and skills, and resolve tensions and disputes through our function as interstitial figures.”
have received the “Women in Business Law Award” for best in country for Hungary for the last four years in a row. Nonetheless, none of these awards compares to the trust and continuous reliance I have been receiving from my clients. Besides my professional work, since 2013 I have been acting as the President of Harvard Club Hungary and in 2015 after our club received the Annual Award of the global Harvard Alumni Association (the first European Club to do so in decades), I was elected European director of the Harvard Alumni Association. In 2016, I was invited to join the executive committee of the global Harvard Law School Association and, since July 2020, I am a member of its senior advisory council. In addition,
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