Former Senior Associate Cigdem Soysal has been promoted to an Associate Partner at KP Law.

Turkish law firm Karahan & Aydin has joined forces with CBC Law – formerly Cetinkaya Attorneys-at-Law – with Ahmet Karahan and Gurhan Aydin becoming CBC Law Partners, while Omer Faruk Ozdemir joined as a Senior Associate. 

Former Hogan Lovells Counsel Akos Kovach has been promoted to a Partner position in the firm’s Hungarian affiliate law firm of Partos & Noblet.

Bojovic, Draskovic, Popovic & Partners Senior Associates Milica Pesteric, Milos Andrejevic, and Stefan Golubovic have been promoted to Partner.

Zdenek Mikulas, Petra Hajkova, and Jiri Cerny have left Samak to establish the Talers advisory group in the Czech Republic.

Former Hogan Lovells Senior Associates Tamas Halmos and Zoltan Janosi have established Halmos & Janosi Law Office which will operate in partnership with the Niveus Group under the Niveus Legal | Halmos and Janosi Law Office brand.

Lukasz Lanoszka, Paulina Opielka, and Mariusz Purgal have been appointed as Partners with KWKR Konieczny Wierzbicki & Partners in Krakow. 

DLA Piper lawyer Gabor Simon has been promoted to a Partner position with the firm's Budapest office.

Bulgarian law firm Dinova Rusev & Partners has joined the South East Legal Alliance.

As part of a firm-wide promotion round that saw 32 lawyers become a Partner at Clifford Chance, Irena Floras-Goode was appointed a Partner in the firm’s Warsaw office.

Former Local Partner Rafal Kluziak has been appointed an Equity Partner and former Counsels Katarzyna Waclawek and Piotr Miller have been promoted to Partner positions with DLA Piper in Warsaw.

Former Counsel Miklos Kadar – Head of Allen & Overy Hungary since May 1, 2021 – has been promoted to a Partner position with the firm starting May 1, 2023.

Michael Binder has retired from Binder Groesswang as of January 31, 2023.

Tarja Krehic of Krehic & Partners has left the Deloitte Legal Network to set up Law Office Krehic in Zagreb.

Former Senior Counsel Ivana Rackovic has been promoted to Partner at Karanovic & Partners.

Former Senior Associates Marta Cera, Anete Dimitrovska, and Edvijs Zandars have been promoted to Associate Partners at Ellex in Latvia as of April 11, 2023.

Dentons Partners Anna Pukszto and Bartlomiej Kordeczka have been elected the new Poland Co-Managing Partners following a vote of the Partners in Warsaw. They take over from Arkadiusz Krasnodebski, who stepped down after serving as Managing Partner in Poland since 2014.

A new promotion round saw 62 lawyers become Partners at CMS – spanning 25 cities across the UK, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America – including Arno Zimmermann, Hans Lederer, and Klaus Pateter in Vienna, Alicja Zalewska-Orabona in Warsaw, and Mihai Jiganie-Serban in Bucharest.