Former Arzinger Partner and Head of Tax and Labor Law Pavel Khodadovsky has been appointed Deputy Minister of Finance by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.

The European Council has agreed to the appointment of prominent Romanian prosecutor Laura Codruta Kovesi as the first European chief prosecutor. The appointment now awaits the confirmation of the European Parliament.

Ivan Smirnov, the Managing Partner of the Saint Petersburg office of Egorov Puginsky Afanasiev & Partners, has been selected to join the public council of the Leningrad Department of the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia.

Rupert Hartzhauser has been appointed Chief Operating Officer at CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz in Vienna.

Raya Maneva has been promoted to Head of Projects at CMS Sofia.

Turkey's Nazali Legal Services has announced the opening of new Russian and Moroccan country desks, led by Altinay Sheralieva and Esma Parmak, respectively.

Dentons has appointed Partner Karina Furga-Dabrowska Europe Chief Mindfulness Officer.

Former Arzinger Partner Markian Malskyy has left the firm after being appointed Head of the Lviv Regional State Administration by the President of Ukraine.

Counsel Renata Patoka has been appointed Co-Head of Corporate and M&A at Wierzbowski Eversheds Sutherland in Warsaw.

Slava Vlasov has replaced retiring Camiel van der Meij as Leader of Tax and Legal Services at PwC in Ukraine.

Eversheds Sutherland Czech Republic Partner Jan Krampera has been appointed a new arbitrator of the Arbitration Court of the Czech Chamber of Commerce.

Dentons Slovakia Managing Partner Peter Kubina has been appointed adviser for law, justice, and constitutional law by President-elect of the Slovak Republic Zuzana Caputova, who recently announced the appointment of her board of official advisers.

Traian Briciu was elected as the new President of the National Association of Romanian Bars (the "Uniunea Nationala a Barourilor din Romania," or UNBR), at Romania's Lawyers Congress of June 6-7, 2019, replacing outgoing President Gheorghe Florea, who did not run for re-election.

Francine Brogyanyi has joined the Management Committee at Dorda, joining existing Managing Partners Martin Brodey and Axel Anderl.

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.

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.