Paul Seppi is a member of the Firm’s Antitrust & Competition practice group. He advises global corporate and financial sponsor clients on merger control and foreign investment reviews in cross-border M&A, as well as on cartel and other antitrust investigations. His experience spans private equity, financial services, TMT, consumer products, defence, infrastructure and life sciences.
Admitted in England and Wales, Belgium, Ireland and Italy, and fluent in English, German and Italian, Paul works seamlessly across jurisdictions and cultures to deliver practical, commercially driven solutions.
Paul is recognised in Legal 500 as well as Best Lawyers, with clients describing him as “very experienced and dedicated” and “a real pleasure to work with."
Experience
Paul’s representative experience includes advising:*
- CapVest Partners on its €10 billion acquisition of STADA from Bain Capital and Cinven, as well as its acquisition of Recochem and the acquisition by its portfolio company Natra of Bredabest
- CMA CGM Group on the public offer by its subsidiary CEVA Logistics for Wincanton and its €5 billion acquisition of Bolloré Logistics
- Bain Capital Credit and ICG on their acquisition of joint control over Study Group
- Insight Partners on various matters, including its investments in OpenAI, Anthropic and SignUp Software, as well as the acquisition by its portfolio company Comply365 of Vistair, Qualtero and ASQS
- Searchlight Capital Partners on its joint offer to acquire Hyve Group, as well as the sale of Flowbird Group to EasyPark Group
- PAI Partners on the combination of its portfolio company EMG with Gravity Media
- Kaleyra, Inc. on its sale to Tata Communications
- Franklin Templeton on its $925 million acquisition of Putnam Investments
- A global food company on competition law compliance mattes across Europe, including in relation to RPM, excessive pricing, information exchange, refusal to supply, rebates and parallel trade
- 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.