Dr. Katalin Balázs
attorney-at-law
After four years of legal work, she passed the bar exam in 2007. She is member of the budapest Bar Association. She is capable of carrying out negotations in English, German, and French, and she speaks Italian at a conversational level.
She studied at the Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Bonn which was ranked among the two hundred best universities of the world. She finished law school in 2003 in Budapest. Following graduation she completed a postgraduate course in English which resulted in a Legal degree specialized in the European Union. In order to better understand not only the legal but the financial side of the business world she completed a postgraduate program at the College of International Management and business Studies at Budapest Business School in 2006.
She started her carrier at a German international law firm in 2003 as a treinee lawyer. Exploiting her English, German and French knowledge she then worked as a legal advisor at the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Hungarian National Assembly, where she had direct insight into both the Hungarian and the European Union legislation. After her years at the Foreign Affairs Department she spent almost a year in an investment counselling firm, ant then a year at the Hungarian National Television as legal counsel and was responsible for their international contractual issues. Following this short media 'adventure' she has been working as an attorney at law, mainly for clients with international links. However her office is open for all clients.
She regularly publishes studies in Hungarian, German and English, most of which is available on present website. She is often invited to different legal conferences to hold presentations. She is finishing her PhD studies at the Faculty of International Private Law at ELTE University.