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Paul Foote
 

Paul Foote

Partner
 
CityPoint | One Ropemaker Street
London EC2Y 9HU EN
 
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Paul Foote is a Partner in Simpson Thacher’s Mergers and Acquisitions Practice. Based in London, Paul advises private equity and infrastructure funds on a wide range of complex domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, dispositions, joint venture and consortium transactions, restructurings, leveraged buyouts and take private transactions, among other corporate matters.  Prior to joining Simpson Thacher, Paul was a senior associate in a Magic Circle firm in London, and spent time on secondment to Blackstone and Antin Infrastructure Partners.

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Work Highlights
  • Blackstone Energy Transition Partners in its acquisition of SEVES Group

  • Blackstone Capital Partners in its investments in Civica, Esdec Solar Group, Desotec, Huws Gray and Bourne Leisure

  • EQT in its agreement to acquire Statera Energy Limited

  • EQT in its acquisition of InstaVolt

  • Blackstone Infrastructure Partners in partnership with the Benetton family, in its acquisition of Altantia SpA valuing the company at approximately $59 billion

  • Stonepeak on its €2.1 billion equity recapitalization of euNetworks, a Western European bandwidth infrastructure company

  • KKR in its acquisition of Refresco

  • Blackstone Infrastructure Partners in the acquisition, alongside CDP and Macquarie, of a controlling stake in Autostrade per l’Italia, one of Europe’s leading toll road operators

  • H.I.G. Capital, LLC in its acquisition of KPMG’s U.K. restructuring business

Education
  • College of Law - London, 2013 LPC
  • BPP Law School, 2012 GDL
  • London School of Economics, 2007 MSc
  • Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge, 2005 M.A.
Admissions
  • England and Wales 2015

Paul Foote is a Partner in Simpson Thacher’s Mergers and Acquisitions Practice. Based in London, Paul advises private equity and infrastructure funds on a wide range of complex domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, dispositions, joint venture and consortium transactions, restructurings, leveraged buyouts and take private transactions, among other corporate matters.  Prior to joining Simpson Thacher, Paul was a senior associate in a Magic Circle firm in London, and spent time on secondment to Blackstone and Antin Infrastructure Partners.

Paul’s experience includes the representation of:

  • Blackstone Energy Transition Partners in its acquisition of SEVES Group

  • Blackstone Capital Partners in its investments in Civica, Esdec Solar Group, Desotec, Huws Gray and Bourne Leisure

  • EQT in its agreement to acquire Statera Energy Limited

  • EQT in its acquisition of InstaVolt

  • EQT’s portfolio company evidia on its acquisition of the 4Ways Group

  • Blackstone Infrastructure Partners in partnership with the Benetton family, in its acquisition of Altantia SpA valuing the company at approximately $59 billion

  • Stonepeak on its €2.1 billion equity recapitalization of euNetworks, a Western European bandwidth infrastructure company

  • KKR in its acquisition of Refresco

  • Blackstone Infrastructure Partners in the acquisition, alongside CDP and Macquarie, of a controlling stake in Autostrade per l’Italia, one of Europe’s leading toll road operators

  • H.I.G. Capital, LLC in its acquisition of KPMG’s U.K. restructuring business

  • Blackstone Tactical Opportunities in its investment in Lazeo

  • Bourne Leisure, a portfolio company of Blackstone, in its agreement to sell Butlin’s, the British chain of seaside resorts

Paul’s representations prior to joining Simpson Thacher include:

  • Blackstone on its £1.1bn sale of Armacell, a Luxembourg/Germany-based global business manufacturing and distributing insulation and fibre products
  • Blackstone on its €1bn public takeover bid for NIBC Bank NV
  • Blackstone on its successful €3 billion public takeover bid for Hispania Activos Inmobiliarios SOCIMI SA (Hispania)
  • BlackRock on the disposal of an interest in a Bulgarian telecommunications business
  • Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan on the acquisition and the sale of its 40% interest in Koole Terminals
  • Antin Infrastructure Partners on its acquisition, with the Borletti Group and ICAMAP, of Grandi Stazioni Retail
  • Cinven on its acquisition of Envirotainer, a leading global provider of temperature-controlled air cargo containers
  • CVC on the acquisition of a 30% stake in Cosan Lubes Investments Limited, the Latin American manufacturer and distributor of specialty lubricants

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