Sebastian Pauls

Sebastian’s experience includes advising:

Consumer / Business Services

• Ardian on the acquisition and subsequent sale of the Competence Call Center Group
• Equistone and other shareholders on the sale of Sport Group
• Hg on Permira’s investment in GGW Group
• Partners Group on the (i) sale of Hofmann Menü Group and (ii) the acquisition of Schleich

Healthcare

• Acrotec SA (a portfolio company of the Carlyle Group) on the acquisition of Friedrich Daniels GmbH
• Advent on the envisaged acquisition of Corden Pharma 
• Antin Infrastructure Partners on the acquisition and subsequent sale of a majority stake in amedes
• Ares on the envisaged acquisition of Sanoptics
• The Carlyle Group on the acquisition and subsequent sale of exocad Global Holdings

Energy and Infrastructure

• Antin Infrastructure Partners on the acquisition of Blue Elephant Energy AG
• Eurofiber (portfolio company of Antin Infrastructure) on a partnership with NGN to build a leading B2B fiber infrastructure platform in Germany

Industrials

• Advent on the joint venture with Lanxess (HPM business / DSM business)
• Antin Infrastructure Partners on the acquisition of Blue Elephant Energy AG
• Ara Partners on the acquisition of Vacuumschmelze
• Ardian on the acquisition of a majority stake in LIFTKET group
• Brookfield on the envisaged acquisition of (i) Flender and (II) the elevator business of ThyssenKrupp
• Cathay Capital on the acquisition and sale of a majority stake in the automotive supplier E.WINKEMANN

Technology, Media, and Telecom

• Bregal on (i) the sale of EA Elektro-Automatic, (ii) the acquisition of ACTICO, as well as (iii) the strategic partnership with Billbee
• The Carlyle Group on the acquisition of the GBTEC group
• DEDIQ on a strategic partnership with SAP (JV) in the financial services industry
• Partners Group on the acquisition of Cloudflight Group as well as on the sale of Hofmanns