Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and King & Wood Mallesons have advised Chinese ink cartridge chips manufacturer Apex Technology in its $3.5 billion acquisition of U.S. printer maker Lexmark International, which was represented by Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz.

The deal is the second-largest outbound acquisition in the technology sector ever completed by a Chinese investor and the third-largest U.S. public takeover ever done by a Chinese investor.

Maples and Calder acted as Cayman Islands counsel to the buyer, while White & Case advised Bank of China and China CITIC Bank as lenders. The Maples team was led by partner Greg Knowles.