Hugh is a Solicitor of England & Wales, Lawyer, Consultant and Trainer, English law M&A.
Hugh was previously a partner of Allen & Overy, working in C&SEE, and based in Bratislava, Slovakia and Budapest, Hungary. He joined Allen & Overy in 1994 and qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales in 1996. He was the head of the South Eastern Europe Desk, and head of the Ukraine Desk since early 2016.
He set up the A&O Slovak office in 2000 and established A&O’s associated office in Romania in 2008.
Hugh was Head of Legal Business Solutions for PWC Central & Eastern Europe between July 2022 – June 2024.
Hugh advises in connection with a variety of large-scale corporate and commercial transactions throughout C&SEE, in the telecoms, media & technology, banking, insurance, energy, real estate and healthcare sectors.
Hugh has been consistently rated as a leading or highly recommended advisor in Corporate and M&A in the world’s leading independent legal directories, including Chambers Global, Chambers Europe, IFLR and Legal 500.