Baker & McKenzie advised Walgreens Boots Alliance, the first global pharmacy-led, health and wellbeing enterprise, in connection with the sale of its local pharmaceutical wholesale business, Alliance Healthcare Russia, to leading Russian health and beauty retailer 36.6. Following completion, Walgreens Boots Alliance owns a 15% stake in the 36.6 group.

The Baker & McKenzie multijurisdictional team was led by partners Helen Bradley, Sergei Voitishkin, Sergey Krokhalev and Alexander Spoor with key input from Tharani Dharmaraj, Phelim O'Doherty, Kiki Tienstra, Igor Kungurov, Fedor Mukhodanov, Emile Doelwijt, Thomas Quincey and Andrew Forbes.