Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton lawyers have helped guide Google towards completing the largest acquisition in the company’s history-the $12.5bn (£7.6bn) acquisition of mobile-device maker Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc, writes The AmLaw Daily.

In buying the Illinois-based handset manufacturer, Google-whose Android operating system is used in many Motorola devices-will assume control of one of the mobile industry’s strongest patent portfolios, company executives said.