Kinstellar Partner Balazs Sepsey has been appointed the new Office Managing Partner of the firm’s Budapest Office. Sepsey is taking over from Kristof Ferenczi, who has recently been appointed Kinstellar’s Firm Managing Partner (as reported by CEE Legal Matters on December 8, 2023).

Former Wolf Theiss Partner Marcell Nemeth has joined DLA Piper’s Finance, Projects & Restructuring practice as a Partner in the firm's Vienna office.

Studnicki, Pleszka, Cwiakalski, Gorski has announced the appointment of Jakub Gorski, Slawomir Dudzik, and Piotr Kaminski as the firm's new Managing Partners.

Former Victor Stanila Law Office Managing Partner Victor Stanila has joined BNT Gilescu Valeanu & Partners in Bucharest as an Of Counsel to coordinate the firm's Capital Markets projects.

Nagy & Trocsanyi has announced the appointment of its new Managing Partner – Balazs Karsai – set to take over stewardship of the firm on January 1, 2024.

Dentons has appointed Ladislav Smejkal and Jiri Strzinek as Co-Managing Partners responsible for managing the Prague office and leading the firm’s strategy for the Czech market.

Kinstellar has announced that  Budapest's Kristof Ferenczi has been appointed as the new Firm Managing Partner, succeeding Patrik Bolf in that position.

Former DZP Senior Associate Anna Hlebicka-Jozefowicz has become a Partner and will lead the Regulatory, Legislation, and Compliance Advisory team at the firm.

Schoenherr has announced it is expanding its Warsaw office with the addition of a team of 23 lawyers, including seven partners, as of February 2024. The move includes Partners Szymon Okon, Pawel Chyb, Ilona Fedurek, Tomasz Kwasniewski, Katarzyna Solarz, Katarzyna Szczudlik, and Marcin Czaprowski from SSW Pragmatic Solutions.

Former Sayenko Kharenko Partner Yaroslav Ognevyuk – together with Tetiana Ohneviuk – has set up a new law firm in Ukraine: the Ambassadors law firm.

Bulgaria's Dinova Rusev & Partners has recently announced the appointment of Ivelina Cherneva as the firm's new Managing Partner. Having been with the firm for the past 17 years, Cherneva succeeds founder Anelia Dinova in the MP role.

Act Legal Botezatu Estrade Partners has recently announced it welcomed a nine-person team from Consortium Legal – including Partners Stelian Mic, Barna Bolonyi, and Valeriu Timus – in "a friendly integration and a strategic step forward."

Deloitte Legal Hungary Head of Banking, Finance, and Capital Markets Linda Al Sallami has recently been appointed a Partner at the firm, effective September 1, 2023.

APTIQ Legal – the legal division of boutique consultancy APTIQ Global – has announced it is joining forces with the office of Bucharest lawyer Diana Dinu Dobrin and the Gal Ghilasi Procopciuc law firm in Brasov.

Bucharest-based lawyers Claudiu Damian and Costin Teodorovici have launched Whistle Up – a platform to support organizations impacted by the whistleblowing legislation in complying with the newly applicable legal framework.

Former Counsel Iryna Kobets has been appointed a Partner with the LCF Law Group in Kyiv, where she will continue to head the firm's Dispute Resolution practice.

Prague's Vaclav Zaloudek has become a Partner in the Global Commercial Litigation practice of White & Case, as part of a global promotion round that saw 42 new additions to the firm's partnership.

Tanja Glisic has joined TSG as Partner in Serbia.