Russian Patent Attorneys Andrey Bazhenov and Albert Ibragimov have been promoted to partner at Gorodissky & Partners in Moscow.

Zygimantas Stankevicius, the former Head of Legal at Luminor bank, has joined TGS Baltic in Vilnius as a Partner. He will lead the firm's Finance Industry Group.

Radoslav Alexandrov has been promoted to Partner and Stela Sabeva was appointed the new Head of Intellectual Property at Boyanov & Co. in Bulgaria.

CMS has announced that Andrzej Posniak will replace Malgorzata Surdek as Managing Partner of the firm’s Polish operations on May 1, 2019.

Freshfields Global Transactions Partner Natascha Doll has been appointed as new Co-Head of the firm’s CEE/CIS practice. Doll joins current Co-Head, Partner Sebastian Lawson, and succeeds Willibald Plesser, who co-led the group for many years.

Vadim Konyushkevich has left Liniya Prava to co-found the VK Partners Law Firm in Moscow along with former Silvercliff Capital Partner Ilya Kudryashov.

Schoenherr Warsaw has taken a team of three arbitration and litigation lawyers led by Partner Marcin Aslanowicz from Wolf Theiss.

KPMG Legal Romania has hired Vlad Peligrad and Catalin Oroviceanu as Coordinating Partners.

Dawid Demianiuk and Marzanna Sobaniec have been promoted to Partner at Magnusson Warsaw.

Squire Patton Boggs has closed its Budapest office.

DLA Piper has launched a new "Proptech" practice for the real estate and construction sector and new technologies.

Former TGS Baltic Counsel Kristina Laarmaa has joined KPMG Law in Estonia as Head of Public Procurement, Construction, Real Estate & Environment and Lauri Liivat has joined as Head of the firm's Corporate Transactions and Technology Sector Group.

Gorodissky & Partners has made Sergey Medvedev a Partner.

Pawel Wec has become Partner at SPCG Studnicki, Pleszka, Cwiakalski, Gorski.

Andersen Global has announced that it has entered into a collaboration agreement with Budapest's Szabo Kelemen & Partners Attorneys, making Hungary the 38th country in which Andersen Global offers legal services, and the 46th country in which it is present.

Gudrun Stangl has been promoted to Equity Partner and Arabella Eichinger has been promoted to Contract Partner at Schoenherr in Austria.

Miklos Boronkay and Robert Dezso have been promoted to Partner at Szecskay Attorneys at Law.

Artem Zhavoronkov has joined Borenius as a Specialist Partner in the firm's St. Petersburg office.