Dr. Sebastian Pauls advises private equity clients on the full lifecycle of domestic and cross-border transactions.

Mr. Pauls advises German and international financial and strategic investors on private equity and M&A transactions across a wide range of industry sectors. He provides strategic and legal advice on buy-side and sell-side transactions, including: 

  • Acquisitions and sales of mid-cap and large-cap companies
  • Management participation programs 
  • Carve-outs
  • Minority investments / co-investments
  • Exit plans, and timetables 

Given his extensive and complementary German and cross-border experience, he has a keen sense of trends in the private equity space.

Mr. Pauls’ experience includes advising:

Automotive

  • Cathay Capital Private Equity on the acquisition of a majority stake in the automotive supplier E.WINKEMANN
  • Trilantic Capital Partners on the acquisition of a minority stake in the Sensor Wire Harness business of PRETTL Group, a German family-owned company

Healthcare

  • Antin Infrastructure Partners on the purchase of a majority stake in amedes Holding AG from General Atlantic
  • DPE Deutsche Private Equity on the acquisition and subsequent sale of PharmaZell group
  • HANNOVER Finanz and Hans-Werner Mumm on the sale of their shares in ATEC 

Industrials

  • Brookfield on the acquisition of a majority stake in Schoeller Allibert Group B.V.
  • Partners Group on the acquisition of Schleich
  • Perusa on the sale of SCHROTH Safety Products

Technology Media Telecom

  • Ardian on the acquisition and subsequent sale of the Competence Call Center Group (CCC)
  • EMZ Partners on the acquisition of a minority stake in Wishcard
  • Hg on the acquisition* and subsequent sale of the Lautsprecher Teufel GmbH to Naxicap Partners
  • The Carlyle Group on the acquisition and subsequent sale of exocad Global Holdings

Other

  • CVC on the acquisition of the Tipico Group

Bar Qualification

  • Rechtsanwalt (Germany)

Education

  • LL.M. in Taxation, New York University, 2009
  • Second German State Exam, Higher Regional Court, Zweibrücken, 2007
  • Dr. jur., Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, 2005
  • First German State Exam, Goethe University, Frankfurt, 2004

Languages Spoken

  • English
  • German