Dr. Peter S. Szabó

Dr. Peter S. Szabó, is a registered Hungarian attorney-at-law with expertise in corporate law and mergers and acquisitions, joint venture transactions and litigation. Since 2018 he is the vice president of the Budapest Bar Association. He graduated summa cum laude from the Eötvös Loránd University, School of Law, in 1981 and was admitted to the bar in 1983. He has been a member of the Hungarian delegation of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) in Brussels since 2007 and furthermore since 2020 he has been a member of the Board of Directors of the European Lawyers’ Foundation (in The Hague) and was its President for 2 years. This foundation is one of the most important institutions teaching European law to lawyers, with the support of the European Commission’s programme and financial assistance. He is the representative of the Budapest Bar Association in the IBA (International Bar Association) and since 2023 he is also the member of the presidium of the Hungarian Bar Association. In 2007 he received the Eötvös Prize of the Budapest Bar Association and in 2014 the Hungarian Bar Association awarded him the title of “Pro Collegio Advocatorum”. In 2023 he was decorated with the Knight’ cross of the Hungarian Order by the President of Hungary.