Paul Seppi is a member of the Firm’s Antitrust & Competition practice group. He advises global corporate and financial sponsor clients on how to navigate the regulatory aspects of cross-border M&A deals, including merger control and foreign investment filings. Paul also advises on cartel and other behavioural investigations, as well as broader strategic competition law matters.
Paul has experience across a range of industries including private equity, financial services, TMT, consumer products and infrastructure. He is fluent in English, German and Italian.
Paul is recognised in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch for Competition Law in the UK.
Experience
Paul’s representative experience includes advising:*
- CMA CGM Group on its €5 billion acquisition of Bolloré Logistics
- Franklin Templeton on its $925 million acquisition of Putnam Investments
- Insight Partners on its investment in connection with the merger of Comply365 and Vistair, as well as Comply365’s acquisition of Qualtero
- Insight Partners in connection with its recommended public cash offer to the shareholders of SignUp Software
- Searchlight Capital Partners on its joint offer to acquire Hyve Group
- Searchlight Capital Partners on the sale of Flowbird Group, a leading global integrated parking and transportation solutions provider, to EasyPark Group
- EMG, a portfolio company of PAI Partners, on its combination with Gravity Media
- Kaleyra, Inc. on its sale to Tata Communications
- CapVest Partners on its acquisition of Recochem
- CK Hutchison on the £16.5 billion merger between Three UK (its UK telecommunications business) and Vodafone UK
- CK Hutchison on the €10 billion sale of its European telecommunications tower assets to Cellnex
- BDT Capital Partners on the acquisition by its portfolio company Culligan of Waterlogic
- CVC Capital Partners on various matters, including its sale of Formula One Group to Liberty Media and its investment in Spectrum Medical Group
- AstraZeneca on its $39 billion acquisition of Alexion
- London Stock Exchange Group on its $27 billion acquisition of Refinitiv
- Hutchison Port Holdings Trust on an investigation into a contractual joint venture combining various container port terminal businesses
- Comcast Corporation on its $65 billion bid for the global assets of 21st Century Fox
- A consortium including ANTA and FountainVest on the €4.6 billion acquisition of Amer Sports
- Permira funds on their acquisition of a 50% interest in Grobest
- Several companies on antitrust investigations before the Hong Kong Competition Commission
- A global bank in relation to the worldwide investigations into foreign exchange markets
* Paul advised on some of these matters prior to joining Willkie.