Category: In-House Moves

Hungarian Lawyer Peter Paroczi has been promoted to the Head of Compliance and Corporate Governance at the Qatar Fertilizer Company.

Paroczi has been with QAFCO for over five years, having joined as a Compliance Officer in 2019 (as reported by CEE Legal Matters on October 18, 2019). Earlier, he spent a year with Harman International as its Global Director Counsel and six years with Samsung Electronics as General Counsel. Earlier still, he spent a year with Baker McKenzie as an Associate, between 2008 and 2009, after starting his career with a three-year stint as a Junior Associate with KPMG affiliate law firm Deri & Lovrecz.

“I joined QAFCO five years ago where I was assigned to head the compliance function at the company,” Paroczi commented. “Qatar and the GCC region have been facing significant technological challenges and fierce competition in the oil and gas industry. The downstream sector was no exception to that. The green transition, low carbon or hydrogen fuel solutions, and an aspiration to become a world-leading corporation in the petrochemical and blue ammonia industry required a different and intricate approach from all stakeholders.  As a result of that, not just the compliance function has received more relevance and focus in the business, but corporate governance as well. Decision-making has become more complex in the past few years, while the time for making those decisions has become significantly shorter. My new role at QAFCO, besides compliance, is to enable the company to make decisions smoothly and easily and provide an effective mix of input to the executives to make QAFCO a pioneer of the blue ammonia and hydrogen fuel technology.”

In August 2017, Paroczi was interviewed by CEE Legal Matters shortly after he joined Harman. 

Originally reported by CEE In-House Matters.

Madrid-based Hungarian lawyer Dora Czegledi has been appointed by Fever to Lead Counsel.

Czegledi has been with Fever since 2023. Previously, she spent a year with Citco France as a Senior Legal Officer (as reported by CEE In-House Matters on April 26, 2022), a year with Grundfos as Senior Legal Counsel (as reported by CEE In-House Matters on June 18, 2021), and almost 12 years with CMS.

Originally reported by CEE In-House Matters.

Former Willis Towers Watson Regional Compliance Business Partner Maciej Hajewski has joined the PIB Group as its Group Head of Risk and Compliance – Europe in Poland.

Prior to his move, Hajewski had been with Willis Towers Watson for over seven years, first joining the company as the Regional Compliance Business Partner – Central Europe in 2016, and his role was expanded to include Eastern Europe in 2021.

Before that, he was a Senior Compliance Officer with AID. Earlier Still, he was the Chief Risk and Compliance Officer with Aegon Poland (Life and Pension) and Aegon Romania (Life) between 2011 and 2015. Before moving in-house, he was a Lawyer with the Polish Financial Supervision Authority between 2006 and 2011. Earlier still, he was a Lawyer with Hogan Lovells between 2005 and 2006.

Originally reported by CEE In-House Matters.

Srdjan Sisic has relocated to Montenegro to join One Crna Gora as its Chief Corporate Affairs Officer.

One Crna Gora is the new name of former Telenor Montenegro, which was acquired by 4iG from the PPF Group (as reported by CEE Legal Matters on November 9, 2021). 

Sisic has been working as a solo practitioner since October 2019. Prior to that, had spent over 11 years with Telenor in Belgrade, which he first joined as a Legal Counsel for Media, Intellectual Property, and Contract Law in 2008. In 2010, he became a Legal Manager and was appointed to Legal Director in 2014.

Earlier still, he worked for 8 years as an Attorney at Law in Law Office Sisic.

Originally reported by CEE In-House Matters.

The Stada Group has hired Timur Khasanov – Batirov in the role of Head of Compliance for Russia and the CIS Region.

As part of the Khasanov – Batirov’s role, he will be responsible for compliance risk management.

Khasanov – Batirov started his career as an Associate at Baker McKenzie, and later worked as an Executive Officer of Legal & Corporate Governance at Carlsberg Group, Chief Compliance Officer at DTEK Energy, Co-Chairman of the Compliance Club at the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine, and Compliance Officer at Dr Reddy’s Laboratories.

Khasanov – Batirov told CEE In-House Matters that he is “delighted to join Stada and hope to utilize my compliance experience in the region for the benefit of the company.”

Originally reported by CEE In-House Matters.