Biography
Nicholas Barnabo is counsel in Weil’s Antitrust practice.
He has advised on various high profile, complex and multi-jurisdictional M&A transactions, with a particular focus on cross-border merger control and foreign investment reviews. His experience covers antitrust and regulatory proceedings before the European Commission, EU member states, the UK CMA and various key regulators globally.
Prior to joining Weil, Nick was a senior associate at a global law firm in London and before that practiced as an associate at a leading US firm in Brussels.
He regularly advises private equity firms, sovereign wealth funds and corporations across a wide range of industry sectors.
Representative experience from previous firms includes:
- Bain Capital in its sale of esure group for £1.295 billion
- Bain Capital on its acquisition of Deltatre
- Brookfield Renewable Partners on its $7.9 billion acquisition of nuclear power plant equipment maker Westinghouse Electric
- Brookfield on its $16 billion acquisition of Nielsen
- Brookfield on its €17.5 billion acquisition of Deutsche Telekom AG’s tower business
- Dun & Bradstreet, in its $7.7 bn sale to investment funds associated with Clearlake Capital Group, L.P.
- General Atlantic through its climate growth fund BeyondNetZero on its majority investment in GRESB
- General Atlantic in its minority investment in Wireless Logic
- Lone Star Funds in its acqusition of RadiciGoup for $2.3B
- Lone Star Funds on the acquisition of the XSYS division from the Flint Group
- Lone Star Funds on the sale of the Altadia Group to Carlyle
- PAI Partners on its €3.6 billion equity transaction and establishment of a new ownership structure for its c. 50% stake in Froneri
- PAI Partners in its Acquisition of Audiotonix
- PSG on the sale of Signaturit to Namirial (a portfolio company of Bain Capital) and PSG’s reinvestment in the combined business
- PSG on the strategic growth investment in Glasswall
- PSG on the sale of Mapal to Eurazeo and PSG’s reinvestment in Mapal
- PSG on the sale of Nalanda to Once For All (a portfolio company of GTCR) and PSG’s reinvestment into the combined business
- PX3 Partners, and its portfolio company Cleanova, on the acquisition of the Micronics Engineered Filtration Group, creating a $1.3bn combined business
- PX3 Partners on the carve-out acquisition of the filtration division of Celeros Flow Technology, a portfolio company of Apollo Global Management
- Sun European Partners on its sale of Sports & Leisure Group to TenCate Grass
- TPG in its $660 million acquisition of Peppertree Capital Management, Inc.
- Eutelsat on its $3.4 billion combination with OneWeb
- An ad hoc group of secured lenders to the world’s largest regional aircraft lessor, Nordic Aviation Capital, in relation to its restructuring
- Genstar Capital on acquisition of portfolio company Bihr
- KPS Capital Partners on merger control and FDI aspects of various transactions
- DuPont on the conditional approval of the $130 billion merger of equals with The Dow Chemical Company
- DuPont on a business swap with FMC Corporation, exchanging portions of DuPont’s crop protection business for FMC’s health and nutrition business
- TPG Capital and its portfolio company The Warranty Group on merger control aspects of its acquisition by Assurant
- Patheon on merger control aspects of its $7.2 billion acquisition by Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc