Dentons has appointed Gabor Kiraly as the new Country Managing Officer in Hungary effective January 1, 2022.

Gugushev & Partners has promoted Victor Gugushev and Dafinka Stoycheva to Senior Partner.

Yan Voinikanis-Myrskyi has joined Eterna Law as Partner and will head criminal law and public procurement practices.

Noerr has announced at, as of January 19, its Russian office will be running independently as Arno Legal, working in cooperation with Noerr.

Triniti Jurex’ Giedre Ciuladiene and Arturas Vaisvila have become Partners, while Raminta Vilcinskaite and Olga Siomina have been promoted to Associate Partners with the firm.

Partner and Head of the Energy and Infrastructure practice Vit Stehlik has been promoted to Executive Partner at White & Case in Prague, as of January 1, 2021, replacing Partner and Head of the firm's CEE Real Estate practice Petr Panek. Panek will be in charge of developing White & Case’s operations in eleven SEE countries as the firm's new SEE Country Practice Head.

Nebojsa Vitez and Luka Porobija have been promoted to Equity Partners at Porobija & Spoljaric as of January 1, 2022.

Daniel Alexie and Anca Baitan have been promoted to Partner at MPR Partners, "giving a new impetus to its corporate, financial services, dispute resolution, as well as IT teams."

Former Managing Associates Anca Simeria and Iuliana Bidalache have been promoted to Partner at Popescu & Asociatii, starting on January 1, 2022.

Former Attorney-at-Law Peter Weidinger has been promoted to Partner at Act Ban & Karika Attorneys at Law, starting from January 1, 2022.

Former Squire Patton Boggs Of Counsel Stanislav Durica has joined Dentons as a Partner in Bratislava and will lead the office's Employment and Labor practice.

Former Managing Counsel Ioana Katona has been promoted to Partner at Bondoc si Asociatii. She is a lawyer "within the [firm's] Litigation and Arbitration department ... and focuses on administrative and tax law, energy, health, insolvency, and civil law litigation cases, including real estate and corporate disputes."

Head of BDK Advokati’s Payment Services practice Dragoljub Sretenovic has been promoted to Partner.

Former Solivan Partner Christian Schnell has joined Dentons as a Partner in the firm's Energy and Natural Resources practice. Based in Warsaw, Schnell will also practice in the firm's Munich office. He is joined by Counsel Piotr Dziwniel, Senior Associate Olga Wasilewska, and Associate Ewa Golabek. 

Former Counsel Edyta Defanska-Czuko, specializing in employment law, has been promoted to Partner at Crido Legal.

Ruta Armone, Migle Petkeviciene, and Dovile Stancikaite have been promoted to Partner at Ellex in Lithuania. 

Lydia Sofrona has become a Partner at Koutalidis, in the firm's Tax Law practice.

Lenka Droscova has become a Partner at Act Randa Havel Legal. She focuses on labor law and is also a member of the State Bar of California.