Iván Szász has developed a broad corporate and regulatory practice serving Hungary-based and international clients in matters including telecommunications, banking and greenfield investments. He is listed in Legal Media Group’s 2008 Guide to the World’s Leading Experts in Commercial Arbitration and recognized by PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook 2009 for dispute resolution. He has been listed for commercial arbitration in The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers each year since 2004. He is also listed in The Best Lawyers in Hungary for litigation.

Mr. Szász serves as an arbitrator in international arbitration courts handling major international commercial disputes and is on the presidential panel of these institutions.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Szász was a partner in a New York law firm where he acted as the managing partner of its Budapest office. He has also served as ambassador and chief of the Mission of Hungary to the European Communities in Brussels. For nearly 20 years, Mr. Szász acted as the director general and chief legal counsel of the Ministry of Foreign Trade, and from 1968 to 1990 he was the Hungarian representative to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law.

As a professor of law, Mr. Szász has taught at the Budapest University of Economic Sciences, the Academy for Foreign Trade, Budapest, and the Budapest ELTE University, Faculty of Law. He is the author of several books and articles on international trade law.

Mr. Szász is a past member of the International Chamber of Commerce’s Court of Arbitration Council and an officer of the International Council for Commercial Arbitration. He is also an honorary chair of the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce’s Legal Commission and is on the supervisory board of several companies.