Baker & McKenzie partner Peter Magyar has returned to London after eight years overseeing rapid privatisation programmes in Hungary. Magyar, whose Hungarian parents left the country in 1956, the year the USSR crushed the Hungarian uprising, set up Baker & McKenzie's Budapest-based securities and privatisation practice in 1988. He was lead partner on huge deals including privatisation of Hungary's largest chemical conglomerate.
Irish rage as public picks up £7m bill
The award of almost IR£7 million in fees to a legal team which represented a company at the centre of a judicial inquiry into the Irish meat industry has provoked a storm of protest in Eire. Senior counsel Dermot Gleeson, who led a team representing Goodman International at the inquiry, has been awarded fees of […]
