Former Karanovic & Partners attorneys Luka Prelevic, Stefan Lucic, and Djordje Kuzmanovic have opened PLK Advokati for business in Podgorica.

Vincentiu Constantin has been made Managing Associate and Head of Dispute Resolution at Leroy si Asociatii in Romania.

BGP Litigation has launched a Life Sciences & Technology practice, to be led by Partner Alexander Panov, who is joining the firm from the Pepeliaev Group.

Alexander Panov, Head of the Pepeliaev Group's Life Sciences practice, will be leaving the firm.

Sait Eryilmaz, Head of Banking & Finance at Clifford Chance Turkey, has made Partner.

Maciej Pietrzak has made Local Partner at Greenberg Traurig in Warsaw.

Former Esin Attorney Partnership Attorney Asli Tezcan has rejoined Acar & Ergonen.

At the beginning of February, Radovanovic Stojanovic & Partners opened its doors for business in Belgrade.

Former Popovici Nitu Stoica & Associatii Partner Cristian Popescu has left that firm to become a Partner at Dentons in Bucharest.

Dentons Partner Konstantin Kroll has been appointed Head of the firm's Russian Corporate and M&A Practice in Moscow. He takes the practice over from Partner Mathieu Fabre-Magnan, who had led the practice since 2016.

Zoltan Lengyel, the current Managing Partner of the Allen & Overy Budapest office, has announced that he will retire on May 1, with Counsel Miklos Kadar taking over the management of the Budapest office from that date.

Petr Kasik has been named the new Managing Partner of Kocian Solc Balastik, taking over from former Managing Partner Dagmar Dubecka.

Senior Associate Oleksandr Pashynin has been promoted to Counsel and Head of Banking & Finance at Everlegal in Ukraine.

Csaba Rusznak has joined KNP Law Nagy-Koppany Lencs & Partners to lead the firm’s Dispute Resolution Practice Group. At the same time, Oliver Koppany has joined the firm as Foreign Legal Counsel.

The Alexiou-Kosmopoulos Law Firm has changed its name to AKL and changed its leadership, with Alexandros Kosmopoulos and Helen Alexiou having been elected joint Managing Partners.

Former Senior Associates Dragoljub Sretenovic, Bisera Andrijasevic, and Tomislav Popovic have been promoted to Counsel at BDK Advokati. Sretenovic, who was already the Head of the Payment Services Practice, became Co-Head of Banking & Finance, while Popovic, who Heads the Tax Practice, became Head of Corporate & Commercial and Co-Head of Distressed Situations/Insolvency & Restructuring, and Andrijasevic will head the Life Sciences & Healthcare practice and co-head the firm’s Competition practice alongside Managing Partner Tijana Kojovic.

Former Managing Associate Melis Oget Koc has been promoted to Partner at Kolcuoglu Demirkan Kocakli.

Katarzyna Baranska has become Partner and Head of Infrastructure & Environment at Kochanski & Partners.