Nicholas Barnabo

Counsel London, Brussels

Biography

Nicholas Barnabo is counsel in Weil’s Antitrust practice. He advises private equity firms, sovereign wealth funds and corporates on EU, UK and international merger control and foreign direct investment (FDI) matters, with a particular focus on complex, cross-border transactions. His experience includes representing clients before the European Commission, the UK CMA and competition and foreign investment authorities globally.

Representative experience includes:

Lone Star Funds on various transactions including:

its approximately €4 billion acquisition of ContiTech from Continental AG;
its acquisition of DOMO Engineered Materials, including securing a rare conditional derogation from the EU Merger Regulation's suspension obligations;
its acquisition of RadiciGroup's Specialty Chemicals and High Performance Polymers businesses;
the acquisition by its portfolio company XSYS of MGS;
its acquisition of the XSYS division from Flint Group;
its sale of Altadia Group to Carlyle.

PSG Equity on various transactions including:

its acquisition of CHR Group;
its acquisitions of Zenchef and CoverManager;
its sale of Signaturit to Namirial (a portfolio company of Bain Capital) and reinvestment in the combined business;
its strategic growth investment in Glasswall;
its sale of Mapal to Eurazeo and reinvestment in Mapal;
its sale of Nalanda to Once For All (a portfolio company of GTCR) and reinvestment in the combined business.

PAI Partners on:

the acquisition by its portfolio company Froneri, of Food Union.
its €3.6 billion equity transaction and establishment of a new ownership structure for its approximately 50% stake in Froneri;
its acquisition of Audiotonix

PX3 Partners on:

the acquisition by its portfolio company Cleanova of Micronics Engineered Filtration Group, creating a $1.3 billion combined business;
its carve-out acquisition of the filtration division of Celeros Flow Technology, a portfolio company of Apollo Global Management.

Bain Capital on:

its £1.295 billion sale of esure Group;
its acquisition of Deltatre.

Brookfield on:

Brookfield Renewable Partners' $7.9 billion acquisition of Westinghouse Electric;
its $16 billion acquisition of Nielsen;
its €17.5 billion acquisition of Deutsche Telekom AG's tower business.

General Atlantic on:

the majority investment by its climate growth fund, BeyondNetZero, in GRESB;
its minority investment in Wireless Logic.

Dun & Bradstreet on its $7.7 billion sale to investment funds associated with Clearlake Capital Group.
DuPont on:

the conditional approval of its $130 billion merger of equals with Dow Chemical Company;
its business swap with FMC Corporation, exchanging portions of DuPont's crop protection business for FMC's health and nutrition business.

Eutelsat on its $3.4 billion combination with OneWeb.
Genstar Capital on the acquisition of its portfolio company Bihr.
KPS Capital Partners on merger control and FDI aspects of various transactions.
Patheon on merger control aspects of its $7.2 billion acquisition by Thermo Fisher Scientific.
Sun European Partners on its sale of Sports & Leisure Group to TenCate Grass.
TPG on:

its $660 million acquisition of Peppertree Capital Management;
the merger control aspects of the acquisition of its portfolio company The Warranty Group by Assurant.