Taylor Wessing and Weil Gotshal & Manges have won the mandates on eBay’s takeover of delivery start-up Shutl.

The London-based online courier company will form part of eBay’s bid to extend its ‘eBay now’ one-hour local delivery service, which launched in San Francisco and New York last year. The internet giant is planning to roll the service out to 25 US cities by the end of this year, with London following in 2014.