Taylor Wessing has landed a plum role advising new client Saint Gobain on its €2.125bn (£1.439bn) acquisition of mortar producer Maxit – handing the Anglo-German law firm one of its largest corporate instructions to date.

Taylor Wessing advised French building materials giant Saint Gobain fielding a German-based team including corporate partners Peter Hellich, Ernst-Albrecht von Beauvais and Dirk Lorenz.

Herbert Smith ally Gleiss Lutz advised the vendor, HeidelbergCement, with corporate partners Jan Bauer and Martin Schockenhoff spearheading the team for the German independent.