About Me
Dr. Köves is senior and founding partner of Lakatos, Köves and Partners. He obtained a diploma in law from the Faculty of Law and Politics at the University Eötvös Loránd in 1983. In 1991 he established Köves & Partners and joined Clifford Chance in 1993. Péter was a partner of Clifford Chance between 1995 and 2009. From 2009 he is a founding partner of Lakatos, Köves and Partners Ügyvédi Iroda.
He has extensive experience in advising financial institutions on all aspects of their operation and on complex structured finance transactions in several sectors, and in litigation. He advises leading Hungarian and international companies, banks, advisory firms and government institutions. He has led many of the firm’s major litigation cases.
He is one of the pioneers of the introduction of complex and structured financial techniques to Hungary, such as PPP and project finance. In 2004 the Minister of Economy and Transport granted him a ministerial award for his outstanding professional activity in the introduction of PPP in Hungary. He is a member of the Presidium of the Budapest Bar and the Full Council of the Hungarian Bar Association. He was the President of the Council of Bars and Law Societies in Europe (CCBE) in 2008. The Budapest Bar awarded him with its "Eötvös Prize" in 2004 and the Hungarian Bar Association gave him the "Outstanding Lawyer" merit in 2006. The Federal President of the Republic of Austria granted him the order of the "Großes Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um die Republik Österreich" in 2009.