MMD has been appointed Legal Counsel to the French embassy in Serbia by Frederic Mondoloni, the Ambassador of France in Serbia.

TGS Baltic has announced that it has reformed its corporate structure and created a new team to lead its structural units. From now on, the law firm will organize its activities on nine "main market industries," each led by a specific partner.

Romania's Leaua & Asociatii has expanded to 11 partners and changed its name to Leaua, Damcali, Deaconu, Paunescu (LDDP).

Sorainen Partner Eva Berlaus has been appointed one of the four liquidators of ABLV Bank, following the European Central Bank's February, 23, 2017 determination that ABLV was failing or likely to fail in accordance with the Single Resolution Mechanism Regulation.

Sayenko Kharenko Partner Serhiy Verlanov resigned from the firm's partnership following his appointment as Deputy Minister of Finance of Ukraine.

Nelly Tomashevskaya will head Tomashevskaya & Partners’s new Privacy & Data Protection Practice.

Luminita Popa, Managing Partner of Suciu Popa, and Cristiana Irinel Stoica, Founding Partner at Stoica & Asociatii, have been appointed the new Romanian Members of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce.

Integrites has announced that Dmytro Marchukov, Partner and Head of Cross-Border Litigation, has been selected to the arbitrators list of the Shanghai International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission, a Shanghai-based independent arbitration institute, established in 1988.

Markiyan Kliuchkovskyi, the Head of Sports Law at Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Puginsky in Ukraine, has been elected Vice-President of the Ukrainian Football Premier League, the highest division of the Ukrainian annual football championship.

Allen & Overy's Lucia Raimanova has been selected to form part of the first ever all-woman arbitral tribunal at the Vienna International Arbitration Centre.

Eligiusz Krzesniak, the Managing Partner of the Warsaw office of Squire Patton Boggs, has been elected as an arbitrator at the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Wolf Theiss Founding Partner Andreas Theiss has received the Golden Medal of Merit for the Republic of Austria, one of the highest state awards in the country.

Sergiy Gryshko, Taras Kachka, Viktor Muravyov, and Yuriy Rudyuk have been placed on the list of arbitrators required by Articles 306 and 307 of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement by Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko.

Austria's Federal Ministry of Finance has appointed Cerha Hempel Spiegelfeld Hlawati Partner Irene Welser a member of the supervisory board of the country's Federal Procurement Agency for the duration of the current term in office, which ends in 2020.

On 25 August 2017, the General Meeting of the Lithuanian Court of Arbitration appointed Magnusson Partner Evaldas Rapolas as a new member to its Board for a three-year term.

Nagy es Trocsanyi Founding Partner Peter Nagy has been appointed by the International Chamber of Commerce World Council to serve as member of the ICC International Arbitration Court.

On August 21, 2017, Avellum Senior Associate Serhii Uvarov was appointed Secretary General of the Ukrainian Arbitration Association by UAA President Olena Perepelynska after discussions with UAA Board members.

Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners is reporting that Partner Gleb Bialyi, the Head of the firm's International Trade and Customs Practice, has joined the Public Council at the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine as a representative of the Ukrainian Bar Association. The new board of 35 members was approved on July 26, 2017.