Overview
Paul is a cross-border M&A, corporate, and finance transactions partner at Dorsey & Whitney, advising on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, lending, and debt capital markets transactions across the U.S., the UK, Europe, and emerging markets. With deal experience in more than 45 countries, he is known for guiding clients through complex, multi-jurisdictional transactions with clarity, precision, and commercial focus.
Paul co-leads Dorsey’s Mergers & Acquisitions Practice Group, leading international deal teams and guiding clients through regulatory, structural, and execution challenges inherent in cross-border transactions, supported by an active presence across Dorsey’s U.S. and UK offices. His sector experience spans broadband and mobile telephony, media, beverages, engineering, specialty finance, equipment leasing, payment card production and services, and specialty pharmaceutical products.
Clients rely on Paul for his calm, strategic leadership, his ability to translate complex legal issues into practical business solutions, and his skill in coordinating multi-jurisdictional transactions efficiently and effectively. He is recognized for anticipating issues before they arise, managing diverse deal teams across time zones, and delivering advice that is commercial, actionable, and aligned with client objectives. Boards, executives, and international counsel value his collaborative style and his ability to keep transactions moving smoothly under pressure.
Paul’s background includes more than a decade practicing in London and a long track record of advising global corporates and growth stage companies. He has served on multiple educational and civic boards, including Junior Achievement–Rocky Mountain and the University of Iowa Belin Blank Center.
Experience
Representative Transactions
Mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures
- $1.95 billion enterprise value acquisition of AT&T’s wireless and wireline operations in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, counsel to buyer, a leading telecommunications company
- $200.0 million cash-for-shares acquisition of 84% of a leading U.S.-based ice cream ingredients business, counsel to buyer, a Norwegian-based, leading supplier of branded consumer goods
- Formation of a U.S. boxing joint venture between a U.K.-based, leading international direct-to-consumer sports streaming service and a U.K.-based sporting events promoting company
- Formation of a venture between a leading telecommunications company and a private investment firm, counsel to the telecommunications company
- $585.0 million enterprise value acquisition of a Puerto Rico cable operator, counsel to buyer
- $422.0 million share-for-share acquisition of the remaining minority stake in Chilean cable television and mobile telephone companies, counsel to majority shareholder buyer
- Acquisition of sales and marketing rights by a US-based pharmaceutical company, counsel to buyer
Lending transactions
- $200.0 million syndicated senior secured term and revolving credit facilities for a U.S.-based pharmaceutical company, counsel to obligors
- Asset backed warehouse credit facilities, counsel to borrower and servicer/sponsor
- First and second lien acquisition financing, counsel to buyer/borrower
- U.S. dollar syndicated unsecured term loan facility for Brazilian, Colombian and Uruguayan borrowers, BVI and Mexican guarantors, counsel for obligors
- €130.0 million construction financing and term loan facility for a German borrower, counsel to borrower
- 50.1 billion and 104.9 billion Chilean peso syndicated senior secured credit facilities for a Chilean company borrower, counsel to borrower
Debt capital markets transactions
- £214.4 million private offering of sterling senior secured variable funding notes and subordinated notes, co-counsel to issuer
- $675.0 million, $250.0 million, €500.0 million, $650.0 million, £600.0 million, €950.0 million, $1.35 billion, £235.0 million, and $265.0 million 144A/Reg S offerings of senior secured notes, co-counsel to issuer and guarantor
- £500.0 million private offering of vendor financing notes
- $346.6 million, $356.1 million, $183.5 million, and $254.2 million 144A offerings of various classes equipment lease receivables-backed notes, co-counsel to issuers and servicer/sponsor
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