Dewey Ballantine has ditched its Prague and Budapest offices in a shake-up of its Central and Eastern European (CEE) practice that sees the US firm maintain only one stand-alone branch for the region.

The overhaul saw Dewey’s eight-lawyer Prague office being spun off from 1 January, creating a separate law firm called Kotrlik Bourgeault Andrusko. The Budapest arm broke away in December, leaving Warsaw as the New York firm’s only base in the region.