Former Deloitte Legal Senior Managing Associate Ened Topi has joined Lalaj & Partners as a Partner.

Greece-based FNG Law Firm has joined Drakopoulos with Petros Fragkiskos and Konstantinos Nikolakopoulos Giannidis becoming Drakopoulos Equity Partners and Achilleas Papadopoulos joining as Partner. 

Ayse Dirik has joined Turcas and Aksoy Holding as its new General Counsel.

KCG Partners has promoted Krisztian Kiralyvolgyi as Partner.

Bahas, Gramatidis & Partners has promoted George Alexandris to Partner.

KPMG has named Partner Martin Hrdlik as the new CEE Head of Legal.

Romanian Law firm Hategan Attorneys and Italian law firm Baldi & Partners have launched a cross-border partnership aimed at offering integrated legal, tax, and business advisory services to clients operating in Italy, Romania, and the broader CEE region.

Former Taylor Wessing Counsel and Head of Real Estate Peter Malovec has joined CTP Slovakia as its new Head of Legal.

Allen Overy Shearman Sterling Counsel Attila Csongrady is set to join Schoenherr as Partner alongside Peter Redo, who will join as Counsel, effective September 1, 2025.

Former Herbst Kinsky Attorney at Law Carl Walderdorff has joined Mueller Partner as Equity Partner and the firm's new Head of Corporate and M&A.

Belgrade-based law firm Dodic, Djuric, Dabic has rebranded and is now operating under the name of Dodic Law Firm.

Former Serban & Associates Partner Mugurel Tataru has joined Stratulat Albulescu as Counsel and Co-Head of the firm's Dispute Resolution Group.

Daiva Usinskaite-Filonoviene has become the new Managing Partner at Noor, taking over from Giedrius Murauskas who spent the past three years at the helm of the firm.

Former Provaris Varga & Partners TMT and corporate law Partners Adam Liber, Tamas Bereczki, and Aron Bagdi have spun off to launch BLB Legal, effective July 1, 2025.

Baker McKenzie has promoted Malgorzata Bakula and Slavomir Slavik to Partner as part of its latest promotion round that saw a total of 59 lawyers join the firm's partnership ranks.

TGS Baltic has changed its name to Tegos.

Cobalt has promoted former Managing Associate Rauno Ligi to Partner.

Kinstellar has appointed Karla Rundtova as the Co-Head of the firm-wide Automotive & Industrials Sector.