Jozsef Antal Moves to Grundfos as Lead Legal Counsel

Former Kapolyi Law Firm Partner Jozsef Antal joined Grundfos as its Lead Legal Counsel in Hungary. 

Antal joined Kapolyi Law Firm in 2020 as a Partner and Head of Disputes (as reported by CEE In-House Matters on September 7, 2020). 

Before that, he had served as Metro Cash & Cary Hungary’s Head of Legal and Compliance between January 2020 and September 2020 (as reported by CEE Legal Matters on January 21, 2020). Earlier still, he was the Chief Legal Counsel of Unix Auto since 2019 (as reported by CEE Legal Matters on July 9, 2019).

Before moving in-house, he was Partner and Head of Dispute Resolution at Baker McKenzie, a firm he first joined in 1999.

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