Former Briza & Trubac Partner Ondrej Hampl – together with former Rohlik Group Chief Legal Officer Ivo Hartmann and Attorneys-at-Law Jakub Kucera of Briza & Trubac, Ladislav Murin of Squire Patton Boggs, and Lukas Novopacky of Badokh – has launched the VIDD independent boutique law firm in Prague.

Former Banasik Wozniak i Wspolnicy Partner Joanna Bernat has joined Crido in Warsaw as a Partner and the firm's Head of Energy.

Former Linklaters Counsel Klaudia Krolak has joined Greenberg Traurig’s Poland office as a Partner.

Former Hungarian Ambassador to Austria Andor Nagy has moved into private practice by joining the Public Law and Regulatory practice of Dentons’ Budapest office as a Partner.

Tomas Skoumal has been elected as the new Managing Partner of Baker McKenzie’s Prague office, taking over from Martin Hrodek.

Former Counsels Zeno Grabmayr, Adelina Iftime-Blagean, Maciej Olszewski, Aleksandar Ristic, Bruno Stefanik, and Stefan Wartinger have all become Partners in Wolf Theiss’ respective offices across CEE.

Former Baker McKenzie Turkish affiliate Esin Attorney Partnership Associate Nihat Aral has joined Alcon as a Head of Legal & Compliance in Turkiye.

Former Biris Goran Partner Mariana Signeanu has joined the Bulboaca & Asociatii law firm in Bucharest as a Partner, effective September 11, 2023.

Former Karsan Automotive Head of Legal Ibrahim Onur Baysal has joined Erdem & Erdem as a Partner and Head of the firm's Capital Markets practice.

Lithuania's Ilaw Lextal has announced the promotion of four of its Attorneys to Associate Partner positions – Inga Neniske, Egle Visinskiene, Ramune Saikuviene, and Neringa Gylyte – effective September 2023.

Attorney At Law Jan Exner has joined the Briza & Trubac team in Prague as Head of the firm's Sports Law practice. The move became effective on September 1, 2023. 

Pawel Mruk-Zawirski and Lukasz Walczyna have taken over the leadership of the Financial Regulatory practice and the Debt Capital Markets practice, respectively, in Allen & Overy’s Warsaw office.

Dora Zombori has joined Dentons’ Budapest office as a Partner, to strengthen the firm's Energy and Government Affairs practice.

During the Three Seas Initiative annual general meeting in Bucharest in September 2023, Austria's Dorda, Bulgaria's Boyanov & Co., Croatia's Divjak Topic Bahtijarevic & Krka, the Czech Republic's Kocian Solc Balastik, Estonia's Ellex Raidla, Hungary's Lakatos Koves & Partners, Latvia's Ellex Klavins, Lithuania's Ellex Valiunas, Poland's Wardynski and Partners, Romania's Nestor Nestor Diculescu Kingston Petersen, Slovakia's Barger Prekop, and Slovenia's Selih & Partnerji announced they formed the Three Seas Legal Alliance, in recognition of the progress made by the Three Seas Initiative.

Former Alto Partner Piotr Orczykowski has joined DZP Domanski Zakrzewski Palinka as a Partner alongside a five-person team.

DWF has announced that former Mostostal Warszawa Legal Department Director Marcin Bisikiewicz will soon be joining the firm's Dispute Resolution and Arbitration department in Poland as a Partner.

Former CMS Partner Pavla Kreckova has joined the KPMG Legal team as the firm's new Head of Banking/Finance and Real Estate.

Former Path Law Hatylak Kielian i Wspolnicy Partners Tomasz Hatylak, Sergiusz Kielian, and Dominika Mizielinska have joined Baker Tilly Legal Poland in September 2023 together with their 12-member team.