Former Allen & Overy Senior Associate and Head of Real Estate in Slovakia Vojtech Palinkas has joined Slovakia's MCL law firm, where he will co-head the Real Estate, Projects, M&A, and Corporate law practices.

Schoenherr has established a dedicated firm-wide Consumer Protection group, led by Partner Wolfgang Tichy.

Elena Volyanskaya, who heads the Bankruptcy and Restructuring practice at Ukraine's LCF Law Group, has been promoted to Partner at the firm.

Former Jeantet Partners Illya Tkachuk and Igor Krasovskiy have joined Integrites in Kyiv, bringing the total number of partners to 19 across the firm's six offices.

On April 5, 2019 Arcliffe announced the opening of a Vilnius office, which will be headed by Partner and Coordinator Dainius Kenstavicius.

Former ENKSZ Lead Attorney Emese Szitasi has joined DLA Piper as a senior associate.

Budapest lawyer Balazs Csuday, Bratislava lawyer Daniel Lipsic, and Prague lawyer Jan Prochazka are among the 25 European lawyers promoted to partner by Dentons as part of its 2019 cycle.

Former Mol Head of Group Compliance & Ethics Balazs Pista has joined Egis Pharmaceuticals in Budapest as the company's new Compliance Officer.

Vladimira Chlandova was hired as the new Head of Legal Affairs at T-Mobile Czech Republic and Slovak Telekom.

Adina Calfa-Dudoiu, the former Legal Director at Rosia Montana Gold Corporation, has joined the E-INFRA Group in Romania as the new Group General Counsel.

Bulgarian lawyer Antonia Mavrova and Czech lawyer Tomas Cihula have been promoted to partner at Kinstellar.

Quido Gero has been made a Junior Partner at Fellner Wratzfeld & Partner.

Partners Francisc and Carmen Peli and several colleagues have split from Romania's PeliFilip law firm to create the Peli firm, with their former colleagues rebranding and operating as Filip and Company going forward.

Marton Kocsis has joined the MOL Group in Budapest as its new Chief Compliance Counsel.

Ilyashev & Partners has promoted Head of Moscow Office Vladimir Zakharov to partner.

Effective April 1, 2019, Wolf Theiss Poland Co-Managing Partner Ron Given will assume the newly-created role as Wolf Theiss's U.S. Representative.

Former Wolf Theiss Partner Jan Kotous has brought a five-person team from that firm to Deloitte Legal in Prague.

Former Fiebinger Polak & Partner lawyer Pavel Bachleda has joined Fellner Wratzfeld as a Junior Partner.