Schoenherr has announced that Croatian cooperating firm Mandaric & Einwalter's Partners Vice Mandaric and Ivan Einwalter have been appointed as Local Partners with Schoenherr’s Croatian office.

CMS Budapest Partner and CEE Managing Director Dora Petranyi has been appointed as Global Co-Head of the firm's Technology, Media, and Communications Group, alongside CMS Germany's Pietro Fringuelli.

Eversheds Sutherland has announced it is combining with Sofia-based "long-standing relationship firm" Tsvetkova Bebov & Partners, as of June 22, 2022.

Mihaly Harcos, former Deloitte Partner and Tax Litigation Head, has joined the Budapest office of Bird & Bird as the new Head of the firm's Tax practice.

Popescu & Asociatii has announced that Gheorghe Buta joined the firm as a Senior Partner, in June 2022, to lead the firm's dispute and commercial arbitration practice areas.

Partners Ozan Karaduman, Merve Karaduman, and Filiz Toprak Esin have announced that the Karaduman Law Firm and Esin Legal have merged in May 2022 and will operate under the Karaduman & Esin Law Firm brand.

Tomasz Ciecwierz has joined Deloitte Legal’s Poland office as a Partner and will co-lead the firm’s M&A and Capital Markets practice alongside Partner Ryszard Manteuffel.

Osborne Clarke has announced it established an interdisciplinary Decarbonization practice in Poland, to be headed by Partner Katarzyna Baranska.

Former KPMG Legal Senior Managing Associate Flavius Florea has joined the Wolf Theiss Bucharest office as a Counsel and Head of the firm's TMT, IP & Data Protection practice.

PRK Partners Partner Vaclav Bily has been appointed as the new Managing Partner of the firm.

Dentons has recently announced its practice and sector group leadership appointments for the European Region, for the term ending December 2024. Partners Gulistan Baltaci, Piotr Dulewicz, Rob Irving, Arkadiusz Krasnodebski, Karol Laskowski, Evan Lazar, Tamsyn Mileham, Ewa Rutkowska-Subocz, and David Syed were among the appointees.

Former Counsel Katarzyna Koszel-Zawadka has become a Partner at Baker Tilly Legal Poland.

Former Krehic & Partners Partner Matea Gospic Plazina and former Investment Banking Counsel at Zagrebacka Banka Lana Stojs have established a new firm in Zagreb – Gospic Plazina Stojs.

Former Counsels Michal Kulesza and Michal Pekala have been promoted to Partner at Maruta Wachta, with Kulesza leading the firm’s Financial Regulation and Technology Team, and Pekala being the Head of the Video Games & Entertainment Team.

Former Head of the Consumer Protection Group at Cerha Hempel Andrea Magdolna Nagy has joined EY Law Hungary and will lead the firm’s Consumer Protection practice.

Former Wilsons Attorney-at-Law Monika Kajankova has joined Dentons' Prague office as a Partner on May 15, 2022.

BPV Huegel has opened a new office in Salzburg. It will be managed by Partner Sonja Durager, Head of the firm's IP/IT/Data Protection practice group.

Queritius has opened for business in Kyiv, with the hire of Sergiy Gryshko as Partner.