Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson, Clifford Chance (CC), Kirkland & Ellis and Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz have all picked up roles on the $1.6bn (£1bn) acquisition of Ancestry.com by private equity firm Permira and a consortium of investors.

Fried Frank and CC represented UK buyout house Permira on the deal, with the US firm fielding a team led by corporate partners Robert Schwenkel (New York) and Brian Mangino (Washington DC).