Kapolyi Law Firm strengthens with new practice leader and partner in the field of dispute resolution and debt collection

A new senior lawyer with more than 20 years of professional experience in dispute resolution, public procurement, administrative procedure and arbitration law comes to Kapolyi Law Firm. Dr. József Antal leads the law firm’s dispute resolution and debt collection team in a position as partner. 

Dr. József Antal, the new senior lawyer of the Kapolyi Law Firm, has gained significant experience in dispute resolution, public procurement, administrative and arbitration proceedings, as well as compliance matters, and will lead the Law Firm’s dispute resolution and debt collection  team in a position as partner. Dr. József Antal graduated at the Attila József University of Szeged in 1999; with his knowledge, professional experience and international relations he will support Kapolyi Law Firm, member of the European Law Firm and being present on the international stage too, as strategic partner in the future. At the same time, as head of the dispute resolution and debt collection  team, he will further raise the professional standard of the services of Kapolyi Law Firm, market leader in banking, financing and capital market law and committed to provide reliable and innovative legal services.

Dr. József Antal began his more than twenty-year career at the Budapest office of the Baker & McKenzie Law Firm in 1999, where he also led the dispute resolution team for more than a decade, until 2019. In 2019 and 2020 he worked as head of legal and compliance at Unix Auto and Metro Cash & Carry Hungary. He represented domestic as well as international companies in civil, administrative, criminal, public procurement, competition and arbitration matters; he regularly assists clients, in particular, in contractual law, damages and other civil law matters as legal advisor. Since 2018, he has been working as arbitrator in the Permanent Arbitration Court of the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Since 2019, he has been a member of the Supervisory Board of the Hungarian Food Bank Association and the Vice-Chairman of the Hungarian Arbitration Association. As the only member from Hungary, he is strengthening the ICC Central and Eastern European Arbitration Working Group with his professional experience.