Linklaters has won a role on PepsiCo’s $3.8bn (£2.4bn) acquisition of a two-thirds stake in Moscow-based food and drink company Wimm-Bill-Dann, reports The Am Law Daily.

John Goodwin, the managing partner of Linklaters’s Moscow office, is serving as Russian corporate counsel to Pepsi on the deal, one of the largest ever by a US company in Russia.