Former AEQUO Head of Sales and Client Care Tetiana Tyshchenko has joined Asters as a Partner.

Ewa Kurowska-Tober, Partner and Head of the DLA Piper’s Intellectual Property and New Technologies practice in Warsaw, has become a global Co-Chair of the firm’s Data Protection, Privacy, and Security Sub-Group, joining fellow Co-Chairs Andrew Dyson (in Leeds) and Carolyn Bigg (in Hong Kong).

Ali Selim Demirel has been promoted to Partner at the Esin Attorney Partnership in Turkey.

Doklestic Repic & Gajin has launched a French Desk, led by Partner Marija Papic.

The BDO network of independent tax, audit, accounting, and other professional services firms has launched a law firm in the Czech Republic, with offices in Prague and Brno.

Former Egorov, Puginski, Afanasiev & Partners Partner Tatyana Nozhkina has joined ZKS Attorneys.  

A three-person Products & Health team led by Agnieszka Majka has moved from Hogan Lovells to NGL Legal in Warsaw.

The Tallinn office of Fort Legal has been joined by a three-person team from CORE Legal led by Partner Merit Lind and by Kristin Kamilla Kirss, the former Chief Legal Counsel and Head of Baltic Legal at Svenska Handelsbanken AB Estonian Branch.

Bora Kaya, the former Managing Legal Counsel at Gama Power Systems Engineering and Contracting, has become Chief Legal Officer of Gama Holding.

Iliana Byanova, the former Chief Legal and Compliance Officer at the First Investment Bank, has joined Sopharma Trading as its Chief Legal, Risk, and Compliance Officer in Sofia.

Eva Nikolic has become Senior Director Legal, Developed Markets at the Astellas pharmaceutical company, where she will head the company's commercial legal agenda and lead related legal support in 22 European markets, including Central Europe and the Adriatic and Baltic regions.

Aleksandra Krawczyk, Kinga Slomka, Dominika Szachniewicz, and Witold Slawinski have been promoted to Partner at SDZLegal Schindhelm in Poland.

Olena Kuchynska has been appointed the new Managing Partner of the Kinstellar’s Kyiv office.

Altug Ozgun, Astella Pharma's Ethics & Compliance Director in Turkey, is joining the recently established Cetinkaya Attorneys-at-Law firm as a Partner. 

Turkish lawyers Semih Metin and Seval Cicek have founded the MC Legal law firm in Istanbul.

Former Glikman Alvin Partner Priit Raudsepp has joined Derling Primus.

Milena Pejovic, the Head of the Montenegro practice at Karanovic & Partners, has been promoted to Partner at the firm.

Former Dimitrov, Tchompalov & Todorova partner Katya Todorova has joined CMS Sofia as Head of Capital Markets.