Rizoiu & Poenaru has announced the firm is splitting into Rizoiu & Asociatii and Poenaru Legal.

Former Dentons Counsel Akos Mates-Lanyi has joined Taylor Wessing’s Budapest office as a Partner in the firm’s corporate, M&A, and capital markets teams.

Former Crido Partner Michal Borowski has joined Dentons as a Partner and will head the firm’s offering related to tax governance, cooperation with the tax administration, and indirect taxes.

Havel & Partners has promoted Robert Porubsky, Petr Tusakovsky, and Martin Vlk to its partnership in the firm’s most recent promotion round.

Karl-Erich Trisberg has taken over as the new Managing Partner at Walless Estonia, succeeding Partner Piret Kergandberg.

Former Counsel Mantas Juozaitis has been promoted to Partner at Motieka.

Former Hogan Lovells Counsel and Head of the Warsaw M&A Practice Tomasz Zak has joined Eversheds Sutherland as a Partner.

Former DWF Local Partner and Head of Insurance Pawl Stykowski has his eponymous Pawel Stykowski Legal Studio.

Ozlem Gelbal Uluisik has become the new General Manager of the Legal Department at Zorlu Holding.

Former Cakmak Attorney Partnership Partner Gokhan Okan has joined Ergun as a Partner.

Former Greenberg Traurig Local Partner Paulina Kimla-Kaczorowska has launched Kimla Law.

Former Counsel Denys Medvediev has been promoted to Partner at Redcliffe Partners. The same promotion round also saw Kateryna Zheltova promoted to Senior Associate.

Former Hogan Lovells Partner Piotr Zawislak has joined Norton Rose Fulbright as a consultant in the firm’s banking and finance practice. Joining with Zawislak is Associate Julia Pycka.

Paksoy has promoted former Counsel Gulce Saydam Pehlivan to Partner.

Milorad Gajic has joined Radovanovic, Stojanovic & Partners as a Partner and the firm’s new head of the Real Estate and Construction practice group.

Former Wolf Theiss Partner Horst Ebhardt has joined Kinstellar as a Partner to launch the firm's new office in Vienna.

Montenegro-based Jovovic, Mugosa & Vukovic and Serbia-based Zivkovic Samardzic have joined the South East Europe Legal Group.

BDK Advokati has entered North Macedonia via a cooperation agreement with a local qualified independent Attorney at Law Josif Filipovski. Moreover, the firm has expanded its presence in Bosnia & Herzegovina with the addition of Melika Basic.