Clifford Chance and Berwin Leighton Paisner played the lead roles on the $1.5 billion financing  CC Land Holdings Ltd.’s purchase of London skyscraper The Leadenhall Building.

In a deal announced in March, CC Land, a Hong Kong-based developer controlled by Chinese businessman Cheung Chung-kiu, acquired the London building from equal joint owners The British Land Company Plc. and Canadian pension fund Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System.