Sebastian Pauls

Partner

Frankfurt / Munich
sebastian.pauls@lw.com
+49.69.6062.6056

PRACTICES

  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Private Equity

INDUSTRIES

  • Automotive
  • Energy & Infrastructure
  • Healthcare & Life Sciences
  • Technology

BAR QUALIFICATIONS

  • 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

PROFILE

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

Sebastian 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, Sebastian has a keen sense of trends in the private equity space.

EXPERIENCE

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
  • 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

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
  • Main Capital Partners on the sale of software company Perbility to Rivean Capital
  • 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