Of Counsel
dr. Katinka TÖLGYES
EXPERIENCE
Of counsel of Kapolyi Law Firm is the head of the EU law / Competition law practice group. She is also participating in the Capital markets and the Compliance practice group’s work.
She started her professional career in 2007 at the Hungarian Competition Authority (GVH), where she worked for eight years. By the case handler tasks first of all she dealt with competition culture development and competition compliance. After the GVH she continued her career with capital and financial market compliance at the central securities depository and the central counterparty. As the companies are system operators, by them she had the opportunity to obtain in-depth knowledge of the functioning and the legal regulation of the financial, capital and energy market, such as core and ancillary services of central securities depositories, issuer services, some kind of specialized bank services, clearing service, central counterparty function and guarantee undertaking. She actively participated in some of the companies’ overall compliance and authorisation project.
She has joined Kapolyi Law Firm in January 2020.
BACKGROUND
She obtained her law degree at the Faculty of Law of the University of Szeged in 2007. During university studies she spent a semester with a scholarship at the Universität Potsdam and completed about German economic law a German language higher education of the Universität Potsdam.
She performed the qualified compliance expert education of the Institute for Training and Consulting in Banking, and took part of several other capital market and compliance courses of the institute and acquired detailed knowledge in these topics. She obtained her professional legal education degree (LL.M.) of compliance at the Faculty of Law of the University of Miskolc in 2020.
She is a member of the Hungarian Competition Law Association and the Hungarian Corporate Compliance Society.
She speaks English and German at negotiation level, and French at conversational level.
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