Linklaters, White & Case and Clifford Chance (CC) have lined up on the $1bn (£629m) purchase of Russian investment bank Troika Dialog by Sberbank, Russia’s largest bank.

Moscow corporate partners Denis Uvarov and John Goodwin headed up the team at Linklaters advising Sberbank, while Walkers Channel Islands partner Jack Boldarin led a three-strong team advising the bank on Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands law.