APLaw law firm founder Artur Piechocki has been elected President of the Arbitration Court for Internet Domains at the Polish Chamber for Information Technologies and Telecommunications.

CMS Partners Johannes Juranek and Gunther Hanslik have taken over the management responsibilities of the firm's Vienna office on February 1, 2022. Juranek specializes in data protection while Hanslik focuses on banking.

Former Counsels Stefan Frank and Georg Wabl have been promoted to Partner at Binder Groesswang. Partner Angelika Pallwein-Prettner is set to join the firm's Management Board.

Partner and Head of the Energy and Infrastructure practice Vit Stehlik has been promoted to Executive Partner at White & Case in Prague, as of January 1, 2021, replacing Partner and Head of the firm's CEE Real Estate practice Petr Panek. Panek will be in charge of developing White & Case’s operations in eleven SEE countries as the firm's new SEE Country Practice Head.

Senior Associate Marta Cera was appointed Co-Head of Ellex's Finance and Tax practice group in Latvia, alongside Associate Partner Valters Diure.

Belarusian firm SBH Law Offices has opened a new office in Cyprus. The firm now offers its services in Belarus, Ukraine, and Cyprus.

Greenberg Traurig’s Warsaw office has established an Environmental Protection Practice led by Counsel Barbara Pancer.

Eversheds Sutherland's Head of the Bratislava Office Bernhard Hager has been appointed Managing Partner for the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Principal Associate and Head of the Labour Law team Radek Matous was promoted to Partner in Prague.

Linklaters Managing Associate Marta Domino has been appointed Head of the firm’s Banking and Finance practice in Warsaw.

Integrites Partner and Head of International Arbitration Olena Perepelynska has been appointed as a Member of the Baltic Litigation Fund Advisory Committee.

Rask Attorney Keidi Koiv has been appointed Co-Head of the firm’s Public Procurement practice.

France's Altana, Italy's Nctm, and Germany's Beiten Burkhardt (which includes an office in Moscow) have announced the launch of their new law firm association, Advant, aimed at international clients moving into or expanding within Europe.

Dentons Managing Counsel Martin Mendel has been appointed Co-Head of the firm’s Real Estate practice in Slovakia. He will lead the real estate team together with Partner Jiri Strzinek.

Gecic Law has launched an Environmental, Social & Governance Practice.

Jolanta Nowakowska-Zimoch has been named the new Managing Partner of Greenberg Traurig's Warsaw office. She will be supported by two new Deputy Managing Partners, Rafal Baranowski and Radomil Charzynski.

Gide’s Warsaw office Head of Capital Markets Robert Dulewicz has left the firm and the legal services sector, the law firm announced.

Asters has appointed Counsel Anzhelika Livitska to head the Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development practice.

Hategan Attorneys has announced that it had internally reconfigured from what the firm describes as a pyramidal structure to a horizontal one.