MEET THE PARTNERS
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Arpad has been in the international property development and advisory business for more than 25 years including 17 years with TriGranit, having previously held senior management positions at Cushman & Wakefield in Hungary and Greece. He became the CEO of TriGranit in 2009 during challenging global economic and market conditions. Under his tenure, TriGranit succeeded to obtain over 1 billion Euros in financing and refinancing to develop around 950,000 m² of projects. He successfully managed asset disposals in Central Europe – including the acquisition and exit of TriGranit by TPG – with a cumulative transaction volume of EUR 1,7 billion and developed retail and office projects such as Bonarka for Business, an office complex in Krakow, Poznan City Center in Poznan, and the Arena Centar in Zagreb.
Árpád Török
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Founder & Managing Partner
Arpad holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the College for Foreign Trade and the University of Humberside, and an MA in business management and an MBA in European business administration from the University of Lincoln. He is a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. He was awarded the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary – Golden Cross by the President of Hungary in 2012. His vision and professional approach earned plaudits from the industry: Industry Leadership Award received in 2011 from CIJ Real Estate Awards; Real-estate Market Personality of the Year in 2015 by Iroda.hu; CEO of the Year in 2016 by Finance-Monthly; and The Most Inspiring Real Estate CEO by Global Brands Magazine.
Mark Abramson
Over the last 25 years, Mark has operated in the capital markets from all sides. As a Senior Managing Director at Bear Stearns & Co (now JP Morgan), where he worked for 11 years, he was a sellside equity research analyst covering real estate and other industries around the world. During this time he was #1 ranked in the prominent Institutional Investor survey of analysts. He was a partner at Heitman with whom he worked for 12 years on the buy-side managing European and global equity portfolios (hedge funds and long-only strategies) of companies in the real estate sector. His hedge fund was ranked #1 emerging specialist hedge fund by Investors Choice. He is independent director and vice-chairman of the audit committee at Echo Investment SA, an issuer of publicly traded equities and bonds.
Based in Tel Aviv and Munich, he advises large institutional investors, opportunity funds and family offices on strategic investments in the real estate sector. He is a member of the European Public Real Estate Association’s Tax and Regulatory Committee. Mark earned his BA in Political Economics from the Johns Hopkins University, his MA in Monetary Economics from the American University and completed post-graduate studies at the University of Maryland in International Public Policy.
Peter is a Hungarian and US trained lawyer with memberships in the Budapest and New York Bar Associations. He began his career at the Budapest office of Norton Rose.
Peter has a strong understanding of client needs as he has worked as both in-house counsel and investment advisor for real estate developers in Central and Southern Europe, in countries such as Hungary, Romania, Poland, Slovakia and Cyprus.
Peter acted for clients across the full range of real estate matters including acquisitions and divestments, debt offerings, land, commercial, industrial and office development projects, real estate financings, equity investment structuring, portfolio deals, leasing and leasebacks, as well as cultural developments and urban regeneration projects.
Peter is the recipient of an LLM from Columbia Law School, New York and an MBA from Cass Business School, London.
Dr. Péter Horváth LL.M
Szilárd has a 20-year long professional career in the investment management field. His institutional background in capital markets ranges from roles in operations to executive management but his focus and passion has been trading and portfolio management of global macro mandates throughout the years.
Early in his career Szilard spent several years at the largest and most successful hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates in Westport, CT and at Boston based Wellington Management. Subsequently, he traded foreign exchange at a large German bank and prior to the Great Financial Crisis he undertook the management of assets of a Hungarian Family Office and successfully navigated the firm to achieve outsized returns. Later he founded his macroeconomic research company and managed the firm’s global macro hedge fund until 2017.
Szilard is a former professional volleyball player, a University of Southern California alumnus and a devoted collector of fine arts.
Gergely has professional experiences in consultancy, property development and management including 10 years spent with TriGranit. He took a role in the standardization and structuring of operations once being promoted to the Regional and FM Director for TGM. He participated in the development and operations of various mixed used projects such as Silesia City Center (Katowice), Polus Center Bratislava, Polus Center Budapest, Westend City Center (Budapest), Arena Centar (Zagreb) and Polus Center Cluj.
He conducted his studies at BLCU University in Beijing China, which makes him a fluent Chinese speaker. He is the China expert consultant to the First Advisor of the Prime Minister of Hungary overseeing and managing all high level communications of business and cultural opportunities between the two nations.
Szilárd Kovács
Gergely Török
Antal Tábori
After having graduated from the College of Finance and Accounting, Antal graduated from the Budapest University of Economics.Later, through his studies, he became an IFRS certified accountant and chartered tax expert in direct taxes. He has been working in the tax and accounting field for 25 years, and has experience as a Chief Accountant and Chief Financial Officer at telecom (MATAV), investment services (KBC subsidiaries), legal consulting (Clifford Chance) and Big 4 audit companies.
He founded his own consulting firm 10 years ago, where he advises leading players in the Hungarian real estate market in the areas of direct taxation, IFRS, real estate company valuation and tax auditing.
