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.

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.

Baker McKenzie has announced a number of changes to its leadership teams with immediate effect, including former Germany and Austria Managing Partner Constanze UlmeEilfort's r-becoming a member of the firm's Executive Committee and taking over as Chair of the firm's Diversity & Inclusion Committee from Claudio Prado.

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.