Mihaela Gherghe has been promoted to Partner with Rizoiu & Poenaru.

Former Senior Associate Agnieszka Starzynska has been promoted to Counsel at CMS’s Polish office and will head the firm’s Life Sciences and Healthcare Practice.

Former Managing Associates Liliana Deaconescu and Corina Tanase have been promoted to Partner at Leaua Damcali Deaconu Paunescu.

Former Baker McKenzie Senior Counsel Georg Krakow joins DLA Piper’s white-collar crime, compliance, and internal investigations team in Vienna as Partner, alongside a team of four.

Sertac Kokenek has been promoted to Partner at Esin Attorney Partnership, Baker McKenzie’s Turkish affiliated firm.

Former CMS Russia Head of M&A Vladimir Zenin has joined Squire Patton Boggs as a Partner of the firm’s Global Corporate Practice, based in the Moscow office. He is followed by a team of three Associates. 

Malgorzata Lesiak-Cwikowska and Radoslaw Cebelinski have been promoted to Local Partners at DWF in Poland.

Dispute resolution lawyer Cosmin Cojocaru has been promoted to Partner at Zamfirescu Racoti Vasile & Partners.

Aleksandra Bankowska and Andrzej Zubik have been promoted to Partner in PwC's Legal & Tax Litigation cluster in Poland. 

Former Noerr Associate Partner Roxana Dudau has joined EY-associated law firm Radu si Asociatii as Associate Partner and Head of the Real Estate Practice.

Former Kinstellar Partner Razvan Popa has set up business advisory company Dewi Advisory, a "growth advisory company focused on [the] Romanian market."

DZP lawyers Michal Cecerko, Maciej Orkusz, and Jakub Wieszczeczynski have been promoted to Partner.

Pavel Sadovsky, Head of the IP/TMT practice in the Moscow office of Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners has been promoted to Partner.

Former Erdem & Erdem Managing Associate Alper Uzun has been promoted to Partner at the firm.

Head of the Labor and Employment Practice at the Greenberg Traurig Warsaw Office Anna Halas-Krawczyk has become a shareholder of the firm. 

Oleksiy Filatov has joined Aequo as Senior Partner and Head of Dispute Resolution.

Romanian law firm VD Law Group l Vasilescu Dejan and accounting, tax, and business services provider Jasill Accounting & Business have announced an alliance to provide integrated advisory services.

Alaz Eker Undar has been promoted to Partner and Head of the Banking & Finance practice at YBK in cooperation with CMS.