Former Counsels Oleksiy Stolyarenko and Andrii Moskalyk have been appointed as Partners with Baker McKenzie in Kyiv on July 1, 2023.

Kinstellar has announced it is strengthening its presence in Serbia by teaming up with the local SOG Law Firm in a strategic partnership.

On June 27, 2023, Asters Partner Markiyan Kliuchkovskyi was voted in as Executive Director of the International Register of Damage Caused by the Aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine. Following the appointment, Kliuchkovskyi resigned from his partnership at Asters on July 1, 2023.

Bojovic, Draskovic, Popovic & Partners has announced the launch of its Environmental, Social, and Governance department led by Partner Milica Pesteric.

CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz has established a dedicated, separate competence center for English law – to serve its operations across CEE and SEE countries – with members including Vienna-based Partners Marcell Clark, Alexander Rakosi, and David Kohl and Solicitor Anna Freund.

Ausra Surviliene has joined Ellex Valiunas to develop the Wealth Management & Private Clients practice as Head of the firm's Family Office.

Austrian law firm Vavrovsky Heine Marth has opened a new office in Linz, in addition to the firm's operations in Vienna and Salzburg.

Former NKO Partners Senior Associate Branko Jankovic has been promoted to a Partner position with the firm. 

Queritius is opening a new office in Zagreb, with Dalibor Valincic having joined the firm as a Partner on June 1, 2023.

Former White & Case Local Partner Tomas Scerba and Michal Hink – previously Dentons’ Czech Republic Managing Partner – have joined DLA Piper’s Prague office as Partners. Alongside the two, Leo Javorek also joined the firm as a Counsel.

Former PwC Legal Attorney at Law Simon Baier has launched the eponymous SHB Law Office Simon Harald Baier.

Lauras Butkevicius has joined Ellex’s Lithuanian office as a Partner.

Fieldfisher opened an office in Vienna on June 1 with former SCWP Schindhelm Partners and by integrating Meissner & Passin.

Former KNP Law Attorney at Law Abigel Sill has been promoted to a Partner position with the Budapest firm.

Gugushev & Partners lawyer Ivan Tsvetkov has been appointed a Partner and the firm's new Head of the Real Estate and Construction department.