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

• 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
• DPE Deutsche Private Equity on the acquisition and subsequent sale of PharmaZell group, as well as on the acquisition of the majority stake of ZellBios
• HANNOVER Finanz and Hans-Werner Mumm on the sale of their shares in ATEC
• 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

• Acrotec (a portfolio company of The Carlyle Group) on the:
  • Acquisition of Friedrich Daniels
  • Acquisition of Mebus MIM-Technik
• 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
• Perusa on the sale of SCHROTH Safety Products

Technology, Media, and Telecom

• Allianz Capital Partners on the creation of a joint venture with Telefónica
• Ardian on the acquisition of the Swissbit group
• Ardian/Swissbit on the acquisition of Hyperstone
• Bitly on the acquisition of Egoditor
• Bregal on (i) the sale of EA Elektro-Automatic, (ii) the acquisition of ACTICO, and (iii) the medavis GmbH, as well as (i v) the strategic partnership with Billbee and (v) the sale of a majority stake in ACTICO Group
• DEDIQ on a strategic partnership with SAP (JV) in the financial services industry
• EMZ Partners on the:
  • Acquisition of a minority stake in Wishcard
  • Participation in HRworks
• Main Capital Partners on the sale of software company Perbility to Rivean Capital
• OneTrust on the acquisition of Planetly
• Partners Group on the acquisition of Cloudflight Group as well as on the sale of Hofmanns
• Silverfleet Capital on the acquisition of ec4u and BULPROS 
• The Carlyle Group on the acquisition of the GBTEC group