Lawyers

Péter Köves

Péter Köves

Work Department

BANKING & FINANCE, CAPITAL MARKETS, LITIGATION & DISPUTE RESOLUTION, PROJECTS & INFRASTRUCTURE

Position

Senior Partner

Career

Köves Péter founded Lakatos, Köves & Partners Law Firm ("LKT") in 1991 and the office acceded to the global network of Clifford Chance shortly thereafter. An equity partner of Clifford Chance for more than 15 years and the Senior Partner of LKT. A key player in several privatization transactions, the brains behind of various new type finance treaties in their Hungarian adaptation and introducing complex structured financial transactions in PPP (both the M5 and M6 motorway projects led by him were awarded the “Deal of the Year” and Péter was awarded by the Minister of Economy and Transport). Recently, he has been acting as arbitrator of MKIK-, ICC- and other permanent and ad hoc (UNCITRAL) arbitrary tribunals.

Languages

Hungarian, English, German, Russian

Memberships

Budapest Bar Association, BIC president and member of the Operative Board of IBA

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