Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, King & Wood Mallesons and Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz have secured roles on Chinese technology company Apex Technology's $3.6bn (£2.5bn) purchase of US printer manufacturer Lexmark.

The agreement sees an Apex Technology led consortium – including PAG Asia Capital and Legend Capital Management – buy printer maker Lexmark in an all cash transaction.

Lexmark will be bought for $40.5 (£28) a share valuing it at $3.6bn (£2.5bn).

China-based Apex turned to Skadden for legal advice on the acquisition, with the New York headquartered firm fielding a team spanning eight of its offices.

At least eight partners worked on the deal; including Shanghai-based China M&A and corporate head Greg Miao and Hong Kong-based Asia managing partner, Michael Gisser.

Finance partners Kristine Dunn, Michael Zeidel and Clive Rough – based in Los Angeles, New York and Hong Kong respectively – are also acting on the deal.

The team also includes Brussels antitrust partner Frederic Depoortere, Washington Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States partner Ivan Schlager, Palo Alto tax partner Sean Shimamoto and Palo Alto executive compensation partner Joseph Yaffe.

The firm is advising on a number of areas including executive compensation & benefits, antitrust and employment.

Apex has turned to King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) for PRC law advice. KWM's head of cross-border M&A Xu Ping is one of the lead partners on the deal working with securities partners Pan Yujia, Wang Jianxue, banking partner Yinghao Lv, and M&A specialists Wen Huang and Liu Cheng.

New York heavyweight Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz is acting as legal counsel to Lexmark on the deal, which is expected to close in the second part of this year.

Goldman Sachs is acting as financial adviser to Lexmark with Moelis & Company taking the role for the consortium.