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.

The SEE Legal law firm alliance has announced the formal launch of two new practice groups, one dedicated to Employment and Immigration, headed by Kolcuoglu Demirkan Kocakli Counsel Maral Minasyan, and one dedicated to Intellectual Property, headed by Selih & Partnerji Partner Natasa Pipan Nahtigal.

Sofia-based Georgi Kanev has been appointed to lead Peterka & Partners’ newly-established Turkish desk.

On August 26, 2020, Sokolovsky & Partners Managing Partner Vladyslav Sokolovsky was elected to the Public Council of the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine.

Dentons has announced the appointment of three partners to European practice and sector leadership roles, with Anita Horvath to co-lead the Europe Energy group, Christopher Rose to lead the Global Private Services sector group within Europe, and Thomas Schubert to lead the Europe Venture Technology and Emerging Growth Companies group.

TGS Baltic has appointed Estonian Partners Kadri Kallas and Leonid Tolstov, Latvian Managing Partner Ivars Grunte and Partner Andra Rubene, and Lithuanian Executive Partner Marius Matonis to the firm's board and has elected Lithuania Managing Partner Vilius Bernatonis as Chair of the Board.

Skrastins & Dzenis Partner Vigo Krastins has been appointed an administrator of insolvency proceedings of AS PNB Banka in Latvia.

CMS Vienna Partner Nikolaus Weselik will take over as the head of the working group on construction contract law and construction procedural law of the Austrian Society of Construction Law and Construction Business Management.

Ilya Rybalkin, Head of Dispute Resolution at Rybalkin, Gortsunyan & Partners has become a member of the Scientific Advisory Board on International Law under the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation.

Botezatu & Asociatii | TheCounsel has changed its name to Botezatu Estrade Partners, with Co-Founding Partner Laura Estrade becoming a named partner. 

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.