Slaughter and May has advised alongside Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz as Google's $12.5bn (£7.9bn) acquisition of Motorola Mobility yesterday (13 February) gained competition clearance in the US and Europe.

Slaughters was brought in to advise Motorola on European competition matters after the acquisition was announced in August last year, with the firm understood to have fielded a team led by Brussels competition partner Claire Jeffs.

Wachtell acted for Motorola on US antitrust clearance as part of its core mandate advising the Illinois-based handset manufacturer on the acquisition, with corporate partner David Karp and of counsel Patricia Vlahakis leading the elite US firm's team.

Cleary, meanwhile, advised Google on both the competition waiver in the US and Europe and the acquisition generally.

Brussels competition partners Francisco Enrique Gonzalez-D