Paul is a specialist in corporate law, advising global businesses on public and private M&A, corporate restructurings, public offerings and joint ventures. He advises Boards on pivotal corporate events, including hostile public offers, activist approaches, large complex demergers and interactions with significant shareholders, Governments and other stakeholders.
Paul was formerly a partner in our London, Shanghai and Tokyo offices. Over his career, Paul has advised companies across sectors and across continents on their most important transactions and situations.
Work highlights
Some examples of Paul's experience include advising:
- Edinburgh Worldwide Investment Trust on its response to a shareholder activist campaign to remove the board of directors
- Unilever on the appointment of Nelson Peltz to the Board of Directors
- Unilever PLC on its £18bn capital reduction, the UK’s largest ever standalone capital reduction
- Unilever PLC and N.V. on their £120bn cross-border merger, Europe’s largest ever
- Unilever on the disposal of its €6.8bn Spreads and €4.5bn Tea businesses
- Unilever on its successful defence of the US$145bn unsolicited approach by the Kraft Heinz Company and on its $3bn tender offer to increase its stake in Hindustan Unilever
- NTT Corporation on its £2bn recommended takeover offer for Dimension Data Holdings plc
- Diageo on its acquisition of Shui Jin Feng and on the establishment of a strategic joint venture in Japan with Kirin Brewery Co
- Citibank as lead consortium investor on the $3bn acquisition of an 85.6% interest in Guangdong Development Bank
- Anglo American on the $19bn public takeover of De Beers by a consortium comprising Anglo American, the Oppenheimer Family and Government of Botswana, unwinding the historical cross-holding between the two groups and De Beers’ stapled stock structure
