Paul’s representations before joining Davis Polk include the following:

CFIUS

• Leading Middle Eastern and Asian sovereign wealth funds in investments in infrastructure, energy, transportation, life sciences and technology
• Veolia in its bid for Suez
• A family office of a prominent Russian investor in restructuring its U.S. energy and financial services investments
• Alphabet in numerous transactions, including Softbank’s investment in Loon, fundraising for Waymo, the restructuring of DeepMind, and Temasek and OTPP’s investment in Verily
• Honda in its tender offer for Keihin Corp., Showa Corp., and Nissin Kogyo Co., Ltd and subsequent sale to Hitachi
• Alstom SA in its acquisition of Bombardier Transportation and in its merger with Siemens Mobility
• OpenText in its acquisitions of Carbonite, Guidance, the enterprise software business of EMC, and multiple potential transactions
• A Chinese buyer in a post-closing investigation of its acquisition of a major digital advertising provider
• Independent directors of Broadcom in Broadcom’s bid for Qualcomm
• Aerostar and ASUR in Aerostar’s acquisition of majority control of San Juan airport
• Google in the sale of Motorola Mobility’s mobile devices business to Lenovo Group
• Parpública in the sale of a stake in EdP to China Three Gorges

Economic Sanctions

• Various clients with respect to the impact of U.S. sanctions on their non-U.S. operations and exposure to restricted Chinese securities
• Venezuelan Creditors’ Committee in connection with sanctions matters
• Sony Corporation in sanctions, AML, and anticorruption compliance and disclosure matters
• Major financial institution in evaluating U.S. sanctions issues related to its Russian subsidiary
• European bank in its $1.3 billion dollar settlement and guilty plea with OFAC
• An Israeli investment group in sanctions issues arising from its acquisition of assets from an affiliate of Renova
• Clearstream Banking in ongoing matters arising from its 2014 OFAC settlement, Iran-related litigation and compliance matters
• American Airlines in connection with its operations in Cuba
• Orascom in U.S., UK, and UN sanctions issues arising from its participation in a North Korean mobile telephone network
• UBAF in its 2020 $8.6 million settlement relating to over $2 billion in transactions relating to Syria
• Manufacturing company with respect to its 2019 settlement with OFAC