Paul Hastings has advised Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. on its $1.5 billion sale of shares in Seagate Technology Plc. back to the U.S. hard drive company.

Samsung unloaded 32.7 million ordinary Seagate shares, equal to about 9 percent of the company’s shares outstanding, in a private share redemption transaction. The Korean electronics giant still owns 12.5 million shares in Seagate.