US firm Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom and elite German independent Hengeler Mueller are advising on Doughty Hanson's E1.55bn (£1.12bn) sale of German electrical components supplier Moller to US manufacturing giant Eaton.

Skadden sealed its latest deal for the European private equity house fielding a team headed by London M&A partner Julie Bradshaw and Frankfurt corporate partner Matthias Jaletzke.

Hengeler advised Eaton, a new client of the firm, fielding a team led by Joachim Rosengarten and Peter Weyland, alongside Heinrich Knepper, who dealt with the finance aspects of the transaction.

Hengeler co-ordinated firms across 22 jurisdictions on the process to advise Eaton, a Fortune 500 company based in Cleveland, Ohio.

The deal is due to close in the first quarter of this year.

Skadden won Doughty as a client in 2002 with the hire of Allan Murray-Jones from Lovells and has acted for the buy-out house in London on numerous occasions.

In 2005 the firm hired Lovells' Doughty relationship partner Bradshaw in a bid to strengthen its ties with the buy-out house. During her time at Lovells, Bradshaw was based in Germany for three years.