Konrád Siegler is a partner in Weil’s Budapest office. He heads the office’s Banking & Finance and Capital Markets practices. Mr. Siegler has been practicing since 1991 and joined the firm as a partner in 2004. He specializes in banking & finance and capital markets transactions, and also has considerable experience in mergers & acquisitions, privatizations, bankruptcy & restructuring matters, and general corporate and general commercial law.
Mr. Siegler is regularly ranked as one of Hungary’s leading banking and capital markets lawyers.
Chambers Global said “Konrád Siegler is considered ‘the heart of the firm’ by many commentators, who recognize the pivotal role he has played in the team’s success in Budapest and in neighboring jurisdictions. He is praised for his ‘extraordinary talent and experience: he always offers practical solutions’”, and is “Recognized for his ‘great legal and business experience”. IFLR 1000 said “He [Konrád Siegler] was really straightforward and understood a lot of our aims of the deal in what we wanted to achieve […] We were dealing with some really difficult lawyers on the other side of the table and he dealt with them very well.”
Mr. Siegler has represented Hungarian and international banks, as well as other borrowers, in numerous project finance and syndicated lending transactions in the energy and real estate sectors. Mr. Siegler has also advised on regulatory matters in connection with several bank sale, purchase and merger transactions, and has provided regulatory advice on standard form legal documentation for investment banks and financial institutions.
Mr. Siegler also has been involved in a number of public offerings and private placements of shares and stock exchange listings. He has advised on nearly all of the large public bond offerings in Hungary, and on a number of private placements and commercial paper programs. He also has broad experience in advising on public takeover transactions, mergers & acquisitions, and corporate matters.
Mr. Siegler is an arbitrator at the Money and Capital Markets Arbitration Court of Hungary. He was a member of the Listing Committee of the Budapest Stock Exchange for four years, and lectured on securities law at Eötvös Loránd University.
Mr. Siegler is fluent in English in addition to his native Hungarian.
Bar Admissions
Budapest Bar
Education
Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary (J.D., 1991)