Washington DC firm Crowell & Moring has formed a Central and Eastern European (CEE) alliance with three law firms to capitalise on this month’s accession of 10 states to the European Union (EU).

The ‘EU accession team’ of top 10 Polish firm Domanski Zakrzewski Palinka, the Czech Republic’s Peterka & Partners and Hungarian firm Hayhurst Robinson, came into effect this month.