Nick Wolfe

Mr. Wolfe regularly represents clients before the European Commission, the U.K. Competition and Markets Authority and major antitrust regulators around the world. His experience covers a wide range of sectors, including financial services, manufacturing, technology and media, among others. In recognition of his work, he has been repeatedly named to Who’s Who Legal: Competition. Prior to practicing law, he worked as a financial services regulator in London.

Mr. Wolfe’s merger control experience includes advising:

• Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, Inc. in its proposed US$8.3 billion acquisition by The Boeing Company
• International Paper Company in its US$9.9 billion acquisition of DS Smith Plc
• Kaman Corporation in its US$1.8 billion going-private acquisition by Arcline Investment Management LP
• Adobe Inc. with the antitrust aspects of its proposed (but terminated) US$20 billion acquisition of Figma, Inc.
• Activision Blizzard Inc. in its US$75 billion acquisition by Microsoft Corporation
• carsales.com Ltd in its US$624 million acquisition of a 49% stake in Trader Interactive and in the subsequent US$809 million acquisition of the remaining 51% stake
• Wolt Enterprises Oy in its £7 billion acquisition by DoorDash, Inc.
• Netflix, Inc. in its:
  • acquisition of Scanline VFX
  • acquisition of The Roald Dahl Story Company Limited
• Air Canada in its proposed (but later abandoned) US$523 million acquisition of Transat A.T. Inc.
• PayPal, Inc. in its US$2.2 billion acquisition of iZettle AB, including in the related Phase 2 U.K. Competition and Markets Authority inquiry
• ABB Ltd with the antitrust aspects of its US$2.6 billion acquisition of the industrial solutions business of General Electric Company
• Nokia Corporation in its US$16.6 billion combination with Alcatel-Lucent
• Yahoo! Inc. in the US$4.5 billion sale of its operating business to Verizon Communications Inc.
• DH Private Equity Partners in its US$1.65 billion sale of LM Wind Power A/S to General Electric Company
• EMC Corporation in its US$67 billion acquisition by Dell Inc.
• SanDisk Corp. in its US$19 billion acquisition by Western Digital Corporation
• Nikkei Inc. in its US$1.3 billion acquisition of Financial Times Group Ltd. from Pearson plc
• XL Group plc in its US$4.2 billion cash-and-stock acquisition of Catlin Group Limited