Manhattan duo Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton and Willkie Farr & Gallagher have landed lead roles on the $13.9bn (£7.1bn) acquisition of Electronic Data Systems (EDS) by technology giant Hewlett-Packard (HP).

Cleary advised HP, fielding a team led by New York-based M&A partners Christopher Austin, Benet O’Reilly and Victor Lewkow.