Linklaters and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom have lined up on the $420m (£260m) initial public offering (IPO) of Russian food retailer O’Key, in one of the first listings by a Russian company in London since the financial crisis.

Skadden advised O’Key, fielding a team including corporate finance partner Pranav Trivedi, who splits his time between London and Moscow, and Moscow-based M&A partner Dmitri Kovalenko.