Levente Pethő

Partner and Director of IP Valuation

Levente is a partner at Danubia Patent and Law Office, CEO of Danubia IP Innovation Consulting, vice-chair of the international LESI IP Valuation Committee and president of LES Hungary. He is holding an MSc in Economics and obtained a qualification in industrial property rights protection and management by the Hungarian Intellectual Property Office.

Levente joined Danubia Group in 2012 and is currently responsible for the IP Valuation and IP management services within the firm, where he has led numerous IP Valuation projects, including transfer pricing, accounting, investment and transaction related assignments with respect to different forms of IP across multiple sectors of industry. He has experience in negotiating and structuring tech-transfer transactions, and has been working with multinational companies from Asia, North-America and Western Europe in setting up and optimizing their cross-border IP management processes, with special consideration to the regulation of inventions under employment, taxation and transfer pricing.

Recently, he has been working on creating the first comprehensive IP valuation training and certification program at AMAVI and acting as an IP valuation and monetization expert in a number of projects with the EU and the Hungarian authorities.