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.

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.