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ANDRÁS SZECSKAY MANAGING PARTNER, SZECSKAY ATTORNEYS AT LAW
BACKGROUND András Szecskay is the founder and managing partner of Szecskay Attorneys at Law, a business law firm with an international clientele and full scope of business law activities. He specializes in litigation and arbitration, corporate / M&A and IP law. He is a listed arbitrator in Hungary and in Austria. He received his JD at the József Attila University in Szeged and later participated in a lawyers’ internship program in Canada. He was a partner at the SBG&K Patent and Law Office until 1992, then founded his own law firm that acted initially as the Hungarian office of the French law firm Moquet Borde until becoming fully independent in 2004. Over the course of his career, Szecskay has taken leading roles in various legal associations. Between 2002 and 2019 he served as vice president of the Budapest Bar Association; since 2010 he has been vice president of the Hungarian Bar Association and President of the Hungarian Association for the Protection of Industrial Property and Copyright (MIE), positions that he still holds today.
OF WHICH ACHIEVEMENTS ARE YOU MOST PROUD? I’m immensely proud of the law firm that grew under my management over the past almost 30 years: a leading independent law firm that is known for mapping out feasible business solutions and rendering focused and user-friendly advice. A firm that is based on its dedicated and loyal lawyers who deliver the highest quality. I have always been in favor of organic growth. Most of them started as trainee lawyers at the firm, then became lawyers and later partners. Their expertise and the cohesion among them make up the heart of our firm. In the international law firm rankings, in some of our key practice areas like dispute resolution and IP we have been ranked Tier 1 for 15 years and longer. Areas like employment law, competition and data protection have experienced significant growth over recent years. I’m also proud of the appreciation my skills and vision in the legal profession have received from the legal community and associations. I am honored to have received some of the highest awards in the legal profession, which is an unbelievable acknowledgement of everything I have fought for and believed
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