CMS' Malgorzata Surdek-Janicka has been appointed as Vice-President of the International Court of Arbitration at the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris. Aside from Surdek-Janicka, 33 lawyers from CEE were appointed as members and alternate members of the court.

WKB Wiercinski Kwiecinski Baehr has announced that it is "responding to global trends" by establishing a new ESG practice, led by Partner Marcin Smolarek and Managing Associate Augustyn Wrobel.

DLA Piper Warsaw Head of Corporate/M&A Marta Frackowiak has been elected as representative of the EMEA region the firm’s International Board - the body that acts as the firm's supervisory board.

Dentons Partner Marketa Tvrda has been appointed Co-Head of the firm's Real Estate practice in Prague. She focuses on real estate, corporate M&A, and commercial law.

Itir Ciftci, who heads the Ciftci Attorney Partnership, the firm associated with Clifford Chance in Turkey, has been named the new Managing Partner of Clifford Chance's Istanbul office. taking over from Clifford Chance Finance Partner Jared Grubb, who held the role since 2016.

Norton Rose Fulbright’s Global Chief Executive Gerry Pecht has appointed Global Executive Committee member and Istanbul office Partner-in-Charge Ayse Yuksel Mahfoud as Global Head of Corporate, M&A and Securities at the firm.

Senior Attorney-at-Law Svetlana Todorova in Sofia and Managing Associate Eldar Mansurov in Moscow have been appointed co-leaders of Peterka & Partners' Turkish Desk.

Counsel Tomas Melisek has been appointed Head of Banking & Finance at Kinstellar in Bratislava.

Lukasz Lasek and Antoni Bolecki have become Limited Partners and Kinga Ziemnicka, Igor Hanas and Maciej Szewczyk have become Contract Partners at Wardynski & Partners.

Asters has launched a dedicated Nordic Desk, led by Associate Damien Magrou.

Longtime CMS Local Partner Maria Orlyk has succeeded Johannes Trenkwalder as Managing Partner of CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainze's Kyiv office.

Stamatis Drakakakis, Partner and Head of Antitrust & Competition practice at Zepos & Yannopoulos, has been appointed to the firm’s Executive Committee.

Dmitry Lyubomudrov has been appointed Managing Partner at Andrey Gorodissky & Partners.

Abu Dhabi-based Partner Khalid Garousha has been appointed the new Regional Managing Partner for the Middle East and Turkey at Allen & Overy, succeeding Ian Ingram-Johnson who has held the position since November 2016. 

Boyanov & Co has formed new practice groups in Technology, Corporate Governance and Compliance, and Construction Law. 

Turcan Cazac Managing Partner Alexander Turcan has been elected Vice President of the Chisinau Bar.

Sixtus-Ferdinand Kraus, a member of CMS Vienna's Corporate Transactions and Corporate Litigation teams, has been appointed Professor of Civil Law at the Johannes Kepler University Linz.

Intersport has appointed JPM Partner Ivan Milosevic the company's Data Protection Officer in Serbia.