Former Hogan Lovells Senior Associates Tamas Halmos and Zoltan Janosi have established Halmos & Janosi Law Office which will operate in partnership with the Niveus Group under the Niveus Legal | Halmos and Janosi Law Office brand.

Lukasz Lanoszka, Paulina Opielka, and Mariusz Purgal have been appointed as Partners with KWKR Konieczny Wierzbicki & Partners in Krakow. 

DLA Piper lawyer Gabor Simon has been promoted to a Partner position with the firm's Budapest office.

Bulgarian law firm Dinova Rusev & Partners has joined the South East Legal Alliance.

As part of a firm-wide promotion round that saw 32 lawyers become a Partner at Clifford Chance, Irena Floras-Goode was appointed a Partner in the firm’s Warsaw office.

Former Local Partner Rafal Kluziak has been appointed an Equity Partner and former Counsels Katarzyna Waclawek and Piotr Miller have been promoted to Partner positions with DLA Piper in Warsaw.

Former Counsel Miklos Kadar – Head of Allen & Overy Hungary since May 1, 2021 – has been promoted to a Partner position with the firm starting May 1, 2023.

Michael Binder has retired from Binder Groesswang as of January 31, 2023.

Tarja Krehic of Krehic & Partners has left the Deloitte Legal Network to set up Law Office Krehic in Zagreb.

Former Senior Counsel Ivana Rackovic has been promoted to Partner at Karanovic & Partners.

Former Senior Associates Marta Cera, Anete Dimitrovska, and Edvijs Zandars have been promoted to Associate Partners at Ellex in Latvia as of April 11, 2023.

Dentons Partners Anna Pukszto and Bartlomiej Kordeczka have been elected the new Poland Co-Managing Partners following a vote of the Partners in Warsaw. They take over from Arkadiusz Krasnodebski, who stepped down after serving as Managing Partner in Poland since 2014.

A new promotion round saw 62 lawyers become Partners at CMS – spanning 25 cities across the UK, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America – including Arno Zimmermann, Hans Lederer, and Klaus Pateter in Vienna, Alicja Zalewska-Orabona in Warsaw, and Mihai Jiganie-Serban in Bucharest.

Taylor Wessing Counsel Tugce Yalcin – who joined the firm in March 2023 from DLA Piper – will head the firm's newly established CEE Turkish Desk in Vienna.

The Bosnia & Herzegovina-based law firm Ibrahimovic & Co has launched its dedicated Turkish Desk with the addition of Feyza Gerger Erdal, who will head the new department. 

Austria-based Helml Rechtsanwaelte has become part of Los Angeles-based Aliant Law.

Partners Andrea Zubovic-Devedzic and Indir Osmic have been appointed the Co-Managing Partners of the CMS Sarajevo office as of April 1, 2023, taking over from Nedzida Salihovic-Whalen who will stay on as a Partner.

The Croatian office of Peterka & Partners opened its doors in Zagreb on March 1, 2023, with the addition of Attorney At Law Anja Haramija, formerly of Buterin & Partners, who will lead the firm's Croatian operations.