mastercard-shutterstock-Article-201607250754 Davis Polk & Wardwell and Slaughter and May have won the lead roles on MasterCard’s acquisition of UK payments company VocaLink.

The US-based cards issuer struck a £700m deal last week to buy a 92% stake in VocaLink, which is owned by a group of 18 banks and building societies. These include Lloyds Banking Group, Barclays, HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland and Santander.