Nicholas specializes in (cross-border) M&A transactions and advises companies and financial investors across various industries on corporate acquisitions, including auction processes (on the buyer or seller side), co-investments, and carve-outs.

He represents leading international private equity investors and has recently been involved in advising:

  • Sycamore Partners on the acquisition of Walgreens Boots Alliance

  • Lone Star on the acquisition of the commercial and residential fire protection business from Carrier Global

  • Inflexion on the acquisition of a stake in Tierarzt Plus Partner

  • Investindustrial on the acquisition of CSM Bakery

  • Waterland on a partnership with the Duvenbeck Group

  • Argand Partners on the acquisition of a majority stake in the Cherry Group and the subsequent IPO of the group

  • Blackstone on several single- and multi-asset real estate transactions, particularly on the acquisition of the Canadian Dream Global REIT

Publications

  • Marktsondierung nach dem neuen Marktmissbrauchsrecht, 2019

  • Mängelgewährleistung und Störung der Geschäftsgrundlage beim Kauf von Mitgliedschaftsrechten an einer GmbH (share deal), wenn beide Vertragsparteien bei einem Anteilskauf irrtümlich von einer Solvenz der Gesellschaft ausgehen, Urteilsanmerkung zu BGH 26. September 2018 - VIII ZR 187/17, WuB 2019, 89

Recent Work

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Career

Admitted to bar 2015
Law firm in Montréal, 2023
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Dr. iur.)
Bucerius Law School
Boston University School of Law