Alexander Knut Pascall

Mr. Pascall has significant experience advising clients on the antitrust aspects of complex cross-border mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures. He has worked on numerous high profile transactions requiring multijurisdictional antitrust merger control approvals, both in Europe and worldwide. His experience covers a wide range of sectors, including aerospace, chemicals, consumer goods, financial services, industrial manufacturing, life sciences and technology.

Mr. Pascall’s recent representations include:

• KONE Corporation in connection with its pending combination with TK Elevator GmbH at a €29.4 billion enterprise value. This is the largest-ever acquisition by a strategic buyer from private equity in Europe to date and one of the region’s largest takeovers in years
• Mars, Incorporated in its US$35.9 billion acquisition of Kellanova
• ANSYS, Inc. in its acquisition by Synopsys, Inc. at an enterprise value of US$35 billion
• Adobe Inc. in its proposed (but terminated) US$20 billion acquisition of Figma, Inc.
• DuPont in its:
  • US$1.8 billion sale of its aramids business to Arclin
  • US$130 billion merger of equals with The Dow Chemical Company
  • business swap with FMC Corporation, exchanging portions of DuPont’s crop protectionbusiness for FMC’s health and nutrition business
  • US$45.4 billion merger of its Nutrition & Biosciences business with International Flavors and Fragrances Inc.
  • US$11 billion divestiture of a majority of its Mobility & Materials segment to Celanese Corporation
• International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. in the US$2.85 billion sale of its pharma solutions business unit to Roquette Frères S.A.
• Konecranes Plc with the global antitrust aspects of its proposed (but terminated) merger with Cargotec Corporation
• Cloud Software Group, Inc. in its acquisition of Arctera from funds affiliated with The Carlyle Group Inc.
• Air Lease Corporation in its US$7.4 billion acquisition by a new holding company with shares held by Sumitomo Corporation, SMBC Aviation Capital Limited and investment vehicles affiliated with Brookfield Asset Management Ltd. and Apollo Global Management, Inc. managed funds
• Boralex Inc. in its acquisition by Brookfield Asset Management Ltd., Brookfield Renewable Partners L.P. and La Caisse at an enterprise value of US$9 billion
• Becton, Dickinson and Company in its US$24 billion acquisition of C.R. Bard, Inc.
• WABCO Holdings Inc. in its US$7 billion acquisition by ZF Friedrichshafen AG
• Dassault Systèmes in its US$5.8 billion acquisition of Medidata Solutions, Inc.
• Fortress Investment Group in its US$3.3 billion acquisition by SoftBank Group
• PayPal Holdings, Inc. in its US$2.2 billion acquisition of iZettle AB
• Sealed Air Corporation in its sale of Diversey Holdings, Inc. to Bain Capital Private Equity, LP
• Rockwell Collins, Inc. in its US$30 billion acquisition by United Technologies Corporation

Prior to joining Skadden, Mr. Pascall worked in the Brussels and London offices of other leading international law firms.