US firm Squire Sanders & Dempsey is merging with Warsaw firm Wiater Law Office to launch an office in Poland as the US firm continues to expand its sizeable Central and Eastern European (CEE) practice.

The 700-lawyer firm took over the 21-lawyer Wiater on 1 May, handing the Cleveland-based giant its first foothold in Poland to add to its CEE bases in Bratislava, Bucharest, Budapest, Kyiv, Moscow and Prague.