Clifford Chance and Linklaters have scored key advisory roles on China’s state-backed trader COFCO’s purchase of the remaining 49 percent stake in commodities trader Noble Agri for $ 750 million.

Clifford Chance is representing COFCO Corp, China’s largest grain trader, on its proposed $1.5 billion acquisition of a 51 percent stake in Noble Group’s agribusiness, which turned to Linklaters for legal advice.