Former KPMG Lawyer Romana Szutanyi has joined Rowan Legal as Head of Employment.

Mari Manniko has joined PwC Legal in Estonia as Head of Data Protection and Media Disputes.

Former Sorainen Senior Associate Dalia Augaite has joined TGS Baltic as an Associate Partner in Lithuania, at the beginning of September.

Partner Akos Fehervary has been elected as the new Managing Partner of the Baker McKenzie Budapest office, as of July 1. Fehervary takes over the position from Partner Zoltan Hegymegi-Barakonyi, who led the operation for the past nine years.

Former Eversheds Sutherland Partner and Head of Banking and Finance Michal Markowski has joined Osborne Clarke in Poland as a Partner and Head of Banking and Finance.

Former Wolf Theiss Partner Akos Eros has established a new firm in Budapest: Eros Law Firm.

Following the recent addition of Roxana Dudau in Romania (reported by CEE Legal Matters on September 6, 2022), Wolf Theis has announced it hired Tomasz Siembida in Poland as a Partner, and the further promotion of Austria-based Nikolaus Loudon and Venus Valentina Wong, Poland-based Konrad Kosicki, and Slovenia-based Teja Balazic Jerovsek to Partners.

Former Compliance Partners Partner Jaroslaw Nowacki has founded Tau Nowacki focused on "operational compliance and AML in fintech and crypto."

Former Associate Partners Andris Lazdins, Sarmis Spilbergs, and Martins Gailis have become Equity Partners at Ellex Latvia.

PwC Legal has promoted Stanislaw Zemojtel to Partner in Poland. 

Ramunas Kontrauskas has joined TGS Baltic's Lithuanian office as a Partner and Co-Head of the Dispute Resolution Specialisation Group. 

Former Noerr Associate Partner in Romania Anca Mihailescu has left the firm and founded Mihailescu Legal.

Michal Jagielski and Wiktor Rainka have joined JDP Drapala & Partners as a Co-Head of the firm’s Tax team and Head of the IP/IT/Advertising and Media Law team, respectively.

Romanian firm Stratulat Albulescu has opened a new office in Chisinau, Republic of Moldova, with Sabina Cerbu joining as a Partner.

BNT Attorneys has announced that Tomas Behounek will take on the role of Managing Partner as of August 30, 2022. At the same time, the firm promoted Peter Maysenhoelder to Equity Partner and Lenka Zachardova to Associated Partner.

Deloitte Legal has promoted Serbia-based Stefan Antonic and Poland-based Patrycja Bolimowska and Jacek Korzeniewski to Local Partners.

Marcin Aslanowicz has joined SSW Pragmatic Solutions as a Partner in the firm’s Dispute Resolution practice. He is joined by Attorneys Ewa Zaleska and Damian Majda.

Roxana Dudau has joined Wolf Theiss' Bucharest office as Partner and head of Real Estate & Construction practice in Romania and other jurisdictions of the firm.