Converting global relations into business advantage

Gábor Damjanovic, European Regional Forum Council Member and Founding Partner of Forgó Damjanovic & Partners in Hungary, a distinguished arbitrator and more, explores the role that long-term investment and engagement in an international lawyers’ organisation like the IBA can play in the development of a law firm from an emerging market.

Gábor also reflects on how, both personally through friendships and professionally through cultural exchange, such annual international gatherings contribute to broadening the perspectives, quality and understanding of fellow lawyers, as well as client expectations and mindsets from different parts of the world.

The knowledge one can absorb through social networking – beyond the sharing of professional expertise – offers an incomparable competitive advantage to those building law firms for cross-border practice.