DLA Piper has promoted Florin Tineghe, Gabor Simon, Michal Gajdus, and Piotr Miller to Partner as part of the firm's latest promotion round.
Bucharest-based Tineghe, who's part of the firm's Real Estate practice, has been with the team since 2005 when he joined Linklaters as an Attorney at Law. With the firm pulling out of Romania in 2008 and most of the team moving to DLA Piper he joined the firm as an Associate. He became a Managing Associate in 2011, a Senior Associate in 2013, and finally a Counsel in 2016, before making Partner this year.
Hungary-based Simon focuses primarily on finance. Prior to joining DLA Piper in 2009, he worked for Mavir as a Senior Legal Counsel between 2006 and 2009 and for MVM as a Legal Counsel between 2001 and 2006.
Warsaw-based Gajdus focuses on intellectual property and technology. He first joined DLA Piper in 2012 as a Trainee and became an Associate in 2013, before leaving to join A&O Shearman in 2015 and then re-joining DLA Piper in 2023 as Counsel. He worked for A&O Shearman as an Associate between 2015 and 2019, as a Senior Associate between 2019 and 2022, and as a Counsel between 2022 and 2023.
Miller, based in Warsaw as well, focuses primarily on corporate legal matters. He has been with DLA Piper since 2018 when he joined as a Senior Associate, before becoming a Counsel in 2020. Earlier, he worked for K&L Gates as an Associate between 2015 and 2018, for MFW Fialek as a Senior Associate in 2015, and was also a Legal and Business Relations Advisor to the Board with GrECo JLT Polska between 2014 and 2015. Earlier still, he worked for PwC as a Lawyer between 2013 and 2014 and for Linklaters as a Junior Associate between 2010 and 2013.
