Overview
Dr. Nikolaos Paschos is chair of the German Mergers & Acquisitions practice at Paul Hastings and co-chair of the firm's Frankfurt office. He advises clients on corporate law, M&A, and related capital markets matters.
Strategic and financial clients turn to him for his experience in complex domestic and cross-border transactions, including public takeovers and defense; public company mergers and spin-offs; strategic acquisitions and divestitures; and going-private transactions.
Dr. Paschos also advises public companies and their boards on general meetings, shareholders’ litigation, activist and stockholder matters, and corporate governance.
Dr. Paschos is one of the leading corporate and M&A lawyers in Germany, is regularly ranked in leading legal publications, including JUVE, IFLR1000, and Handelsblatt.
He regularly writes and publishes on corporate and takeover law, notably the 2016 Paschos/Fleischer, Handbook on Public Takeover Law (Handbuch des Übernahmerechts).
Representations
- Brookfield Asset Management on the attempted acquisition of thyssenkrupp Elevators from thyssenkrupp
- CPPIB on a €500+ million co-investment in the public takeover offer and the delisting offer for Axel Springer by KKR
- Hellman & Friedman and Blackstone Group on the public takeover offer for Scout24
- The financing banks on the public takeover offers for OSRAM by Bain Capital/The Carlyle Group, for VTG by Morgan Stanley Infrastructure and for STADA by Bain Capital/Cinven and for NEXUS by TA Associates
- Athens International Airport in connection with its IPO and related shareholder agreements
- PSP/AuiAlliance on the acquisition of AGS Airports, the operations of Aberdeem, Glasgow and Luton Hampton airports
- Siemens on the IPO of its global healthcare business (Siemens Healthineers)
- TeamViewer on various transactions, including the transformation into an SE and the acquisitions of Xaleon and Upskill, Inc.
- Allgeier on the spin-off of its global technology and software development business
- Bayer on the global carve-out of its polymer business (Bayer Material Science) and the subsequent dual-track process resulting in the IPO under the name of Covestro
- Deutsche Börse on the contemplated cross-border combination with NYSE Euronext and the corresponding public takeover offer
- Allgeier on the spin-off and IPO of its global technology and software development business
- Advising supervisory and management boards of numerous listed companies for the better part of the last 25 years on all corporate, capital markets and commercial aspects, including corporate governance, capital markets obligations, compliance, management and supervisory board liability, shareholder litigation, activist and stockholder defense and general strategic matters
Matters have been completed before joining Paul Hastings.