Hugh Owen will be of Counsel M&A at PwC Slovakia
Bratislava, 2 September 2021 – Mr. Hugh Owen is working at PwC Slovakia in legal M&A consulting effective from 1 September 2021. 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. He set up the Allen & Overy Slovak office in 2000 and established Allen & Overy's then associated office in Romania in 2008.
“I am very pleased to announce that from 1 September, I will be Of Counsel, M&A for PwC. I will continue to be based in Bratislava, and will have a role primarily for PwC in SEE and Slovakia, but also I will be available for PwC in the wider CEE region. I will work on English law M&A, as well as general M&A support. I will also assist in PwC client-facing training through the PwC Academy, as well as providing internal M&A training to PwC C&SEE M&A team members (Legal and Transactions),”
Hugh is a Solicitor of England & Wales, Lawyer, Consultant and Trainer, English law M&A. 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 Owen 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 and was the head of the South Eastern Europe Desk for many years, and head of the Ukraine Desk from early 2016.
According to TREND weekly, PwC is the largest consulting company in Slovakia based on the economic results for 2012 - 2019. The Country Managing Partner of PwC in Slovakia is Věra Výtvarová.
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