Avellum has announced the appointment of Andriy Fortunenko, Andriy Romanchuk, and Anton Zaderyholova as Partners, starting January 1, 2024.

In a move scheduled to start in February, TGS Baltic is welcoming aboard a significant team of lawyers from PwC Legal Estonia.

Sam MacMahon Baldwin has been promoted to a Partner position with Szecskay Attorneys at Law in Budapest.

Wojciech Koczara has joined Andersen’s Polish team as a Partner and will be responsible for the development of the Real Estate and Construction practice of the firm.

Slovakia-headquartered GHS Legal has announced it is changing its name to FairSquare.

Clyde & Co has announced that it will open an office in Warsaw, following the hires of Partners Arkadiusz Krasnodebski, Agnieszka Kulinska, and Radoslaw Goral – alongside a team of 20 associates and counsel.

Counsels Oksana Legka and Oleksandr Volkov have been appointed as Partners in Asters' International Arbitration and Cross-Border Litigation practice, effective January 1, 2024.

Attorneys-at-Law Wojciech Kulczyk and Krzysztof Sikorski have been elevated to Partner positions with WKB Lawyers at the start of 2024.

Ana Popovic, the Head of Zivkovic Samardzic's Employment practice and a Partner with the firm, has left the outfit on January 1, 2024.

Simeon Hinkov has been appointed as an Associated Partner with Sofia-based law firm Stankov Todorov Hinkov & Spasov.

Eversheds Sutherland Poland Founding Partner Krzysztof Wierzbowski has joined Drzewiecki Tomaszek as a Senior Partner.

Former Associate Partner Alina Makovska has been elevated to full Partner status with Walless, as the firm's 30th Partner in the Baltics.

David Hanis has been appointed as a new Partner with Oppenheim.

Former Eversheds Sutherland Counsel Ondrej Benes has joined Wolf Theiss as a Counsel and Head of the firm's Employment team in Prague.

Former Squire Patton Boggs Counsel Jaroslav Tajbr has joined Eversheds Sutherland’s Prague office as a Partner.

Noerr Attorney-at-Law Luiza Bedros and Counsel Sebastian Popescu have been appointed as Associated Partners in the firm's Bucharest office. Cristina Stamboli, Oana Piticas, and Alexandru Dan were all elevated to Counsel during the same promotion round.

Former SSW Pragmatic Solutions Partner Grzegorz Filipowicz has joined Schoenherr’s Warsaw Office and energy practice as a Local Partner in Poland. The move echoed – but remained separate from – the recent Schoenherr addition of 23 SSW lawyers (as reported by CEE Legal Matters on November 30, 2023).

After spending one year as an Associate Partner with Walless, Zane Bormane has rejoined Triniti in Latvia as a Partner in December 2023.