Overview
PAUL ADVISES CLIENTS ON MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS, JOINT VENTURES, AND LENDING AND DEBT CAPITAL MARKETS TRANSACTIONS.
Having completed transactions involving over 45 countries, clients benefit from Paul’s global perspective and substantial international corporate transactions experience.
Known as a strategic thinker, a result driven project and team manager, and a proactive problem solver, Paul assists a broad range of clients including:
- the largest international cable television company and its UK, Chile and Puerto Rico subsidiaries
- one of the world’s largest international engineering and construction firms
- a Czech Republic-based international engineering and manufacturing company that provides hydro turbines for small hydroelectric power plants worldwide
- a fully integrated US-based pharmaceutical company focused on the development, approval, and commercialization of specialty pharmaceutical products
- a Canadian financial services company operating primarily in the specialty finance industry and its US equipment leasing subsidiary
Paul has lived and practiced in London for over 10 years and co-chairs Dorsey’s Europe Practice Group and Mergers & Acquisitions Practice Group. He also lives and practices in Denver.
Experience
Client Achievements
Representative Transactions
Mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures
- Formation of Leo Cable LP, a venture between a subsidiary of Liberty Latin America Ltd. and investment funds affiliated with Searchlight Capital Partners, L.P.
- $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
- Limited auction of TV programming channels, counsel to seller
- Cash-for-shares acquisition of a minority stake in a US holding company of a Czech Republic engineering and manufacturing concern, counsel to buyer
- Acquisition of sales and marketing rights by a US-based pharmaceutical company, counsel to buyer
Lending transactions
- $145.0 million syndicated senior secured credit facilities for a US-based pharmaceutical company, counsel to obligors
- U.S. dollar syndicated unsecured term loan facility for Brazilian, Colombian and Uruguayan borrowers, BVI and Mexican guarantors, counsel for obligors
- Amendment and extension of $1.1 billion revolving credit facility for CH2M HILL Companies Ltd, counsel to obligors
- $85.0 million term loan, $40.0 million royalty stream financing, $20.0 million revolver, and $10.0 million construction financing, counsel to borrowers
- €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
- $200.0 million private offering of 10.0% Senior Second Lien Notes due 2020 of CH2M HILL Companies, Ltd., counsel to issuer
- £300.0 million and $500.0 million senior notes due 2024 of Virgin Media Finance plc, co-counsel to issuer
- £430.0 million and $425.0 million senior secured notes due 2025, and £175.0 million and £225.0 million senior secured notes due 2029 of Virgin Media Secured Finance plc, co-counsel to issuer
- $225.0 million convertible senior subordinated notes offering due 2018 of B2 Gold Corp., US counsel to issuer
News & Resources
Articles
January 15, 2019
January 4, 2019
January 02, 2019
News & Press Mentions
March 4, 2022
January 7, 2022
March 9, 2021
January 6, 2021
March 13, 2020
October 9, 2019
March 25, 2019
August 15, 2018
March 26, 2018
August 15, 2017
April 17, 2017
March 16, 2017
July 15, 2016
March 14, 2016
September 18, 2015
August 17, 2015
March 13, 2015
December 22, 2014
March 14, 2014
Legal Writings
- Adjunct Professor, International Corporate Finance, University of Denver Graduate School of International Studies, 2004
- Author, A Single Regulator for the Financial Industry in the United Kingdom: Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, 10C International Capital Markets and Securities Regulation (Harold S. Bloomenthal & Samuel Wolff eds., Clark Boardman Callaghan 2002)
- Author, Doing Business in the EU: An Overview of Common Legal Issues, The Colorado Lawyer (July 2002)
Industries & Practices
Banking & Financial Institutions
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- Capital Markets
- Europe
- Healthcare
- Latin America and the Caribbean
- Lending Transactions
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Mining
- Project Development & Finance
- Technology
- Telecommunications
Professional & Civic
Professional Achievements
- Board of Directors, Junior Achievement – Rocky Mountain, Inc., 2003-present
- National Board of Advisors, Belin-Blank International Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development at the University of Iowa, 2003-present
- Board of Directors, Denver Montclair International School, 2009-2012
- Regional Advisory Board, Institute of International Education Rocky Mountain Regional Center, 2010-2012
- Co-President, Denver Montclair International School Board of Directors, 2009-2010
- President, Montclair Academy Board of Directors, 2005-2008
- Chair, Colorado Bar Association International Law Section, 2005-2006
Accolades
- Contributed more than 100 Challenge pro bono hours, 2021
- Listed as a Best Lawyer in America©, 2014-2022
- Listed in Colorado Super Lawyers, 2006-2022
- Listed in London Super Lawyers, 2014-2015
- Listed as a Top Lawyer in Denver by 5280 The Denver Magazine, 2017 and 2020-2022
- Recognized by Acquisition International's 2016 M&A Advisor Awards for "2016 Excellence Award for International M&A"
- "Excellence in Domestic Divestitures - UK," Corporate Livewire's 2016 International M&A awards
- "M&A Law Firm of the Year – UK," Finance Monthly Global Awards 2016
