DLA Piper, Covington & Burling and Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu are advising Japanese automotive chipmaker Renesas on its planned A$9.1 billion ($5.9 billion) acquisition of Australian electronics design firm Altium, which is being represented by King & Wood Mallesons and Reed Smith.

Milbank has advised Swedish-Swiss multinational corporation ABB on the $505 million sale of its U.S.-based power conversion business to Taiwan’s AcBel Polytech, which was represented by Sullivan & Cromwell and Covington & Burling.

Covington & Burling has represented Tokyo-based Astellas Pharma on its $3 billion acquisition of U.S. drugmaker Audentes Therapeutics, which was advised by Fenwick & West.

Covington & Burling’s Middle East alliance firm Institution Quaraysh for Law & Policy (iQ) prepares to strengthen its position by launching offices in Riyadh and King Abdullah Economic City.