About

Petr Dušek is a financial services legal specialist who has had a succession of impressive in-house legal roles at a number of reputable institutions. From 1994 until 2003, he was employed by German-headquartered HypoVereinsbank, a subsidiary of Unicredit group. In the capacity of head of legal there, Dušek was intimately involved with establishing and expanding the legal function of the company’s Czech subsidiary and displayed expert commercial and organisational skills in addition to his legal talent. From here, he spent seven years with GE Money and a further three-and-a-half with ZUNO Bank as head of legal, where he provided full legal advisory services for the company’s operations in Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Austria, Poland and Hungary; he is thus well acquainted with cross-border work in CEE. In July 2014, Dušek made the move to AXA, and here he has both legal and compliance responsibilities for Slovakia and the Czech Republic, once again proving his ability to manage a demanding and varied workload effectively.