dr. József KAPOLYI
EXPERIENCE
Founder and managing partner of Kapolyi Law Firm.
He started his professional career as a junior legal counsel at the Hungarian securities and exchange commission and after spending a year as a chief legal counsel at a portfolio company he became a legal counsel at the Budapest Stock Exchange. In February 1999 he established his own law firm which operates to this day under the name of Kapolyi Law Firm.
He is an arbitrator at the Money and Capital Market and Energy sections of the Permanent Arbitration Court attached to the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry since 2002 and the member of the board for 5 years. He had been the member and co-president of the Corporate Governance Committee for a decade. He is a Chairman of the Audit Committee and member of the Supervisory Board of Interactive Brokers Central Europa Zrt..
BACKGROUND
He obtained his law degree at the Faculty of Law of József Attila University in 1996. He took part in the course organized by U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on regulations related to securities in Washington DC. In October 1996 he passed his stock exchange securities exam and stock exchange exam organized by the State Financial and Capital Markets Supervision. He passed his bar exam in October 1998.
He speaks English fluently and German on a basic level.
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dr. Sándor HABÓCZKY
EXPERIENCE
Partner of Kapolyi Law Firm, heading the Real Estate and Construction Law practice group as well as advising on high profile transactions.
He regularly represents and supports significant domestic and foreign investors and commercial real estate developers, especially in the office and hotel sectors, as well as assists individual property transactions and portfolio deals.
Sándor and his colleagues have unique experience with FIDIC contractual schemes and other construction contracts and also in relation with design works’ documentation for major developments.
BACKGROUND
Graduated from the Faculty of Law of the József Attila University of Szeged in 1996 and started his professional career the same year.
He passed his bar exam in February 1999 and he has been a member of the Budapest Bar Association since August 2001.
In 2001 he joined the M&A dept. of one of the leading international law firms in Budapest, where he spent more than five years. From 2010 to 2017 he was acting as partner in charge of real estate and dispute resolution mandates with a Vienna based leading international law firm. During this period, he participated in major transaction matters and also high profile dispute resolution mandates (including a significant case won at the Court of Justice of the European Union).
Looking for new challenges, he has joined Kapolyi Law Firm in the summer of 2017.
He speaks English fluently and German on an intermediate level.
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