Dewey Ballantine corporate partner Morton Pierce has advised ACH Food Companies, a US-based producer of baking ingredients and consumer products, on its £248m acquisition of Unilever Group NV, Unilever’s branded corn oil and corn products business in the US, Canada and Puerto Rico. Cravath Swaine & Moore corporate partner Mark Greene advised the target.

Linklaters partner Anne Drummond has advised banking and financial services provider Lombard Group on its £174m acquisition of Dixon Motors, the London Stock Exchange-listed UK motor vehicle retailer. DLA corporate partner Alastair de Costa advised the target.