Former PwC CEE Head of Legal Business Solutions Hugh Owen has joined Kinstellar as Partner.
According to Kinstellar, Owen has “advised on numerous high-profile corporate and commercial transactions across 20+ countries in the CEE and SEE regions, spanning sectors such as telecommunications, media & technology, banking, insurance, energy, real estate, healthcare, infrastructure, recycling & waste, and industrial & chemicals.”
Before the move, Owen spent almost three years with PwC Legal, which he joined in 2021 (as reported by CEE Legal Matters on September 2, 2021). In 2022, Owen was appointed to the role of Head of Legal at PwC Central and Eastern Europe (as reported by CEE Legal Matters on July 26, 2022). He was previously a Partner with Allen & Overy, having joined the firm in 1994. He was the Head of the SEE Desk and, since early 2016, head of the Ukraine Desk. He set up A&O's Slovak office in 2000 and established A&O's associated office in Romania in 2008. At the end of 2018, Owen established his own consulting firm, called Go2Law (as reported by CEE Legal Matters on July 28, 2017).
