Practice Experience
Allan Taylor is a partner in the Corporate Department in the London office and has experience in UK and international mergers and acquisitions, equity capital markets, joint ventures and private equity transactions.  Allan has also advised generally on UK corporate governance matters.  Allan regularly acts for both issuers and underwriters on initial public offerings, including London and dual exchange listings.  He has written extensively on matters relating to listing companies on the London Stock Exchange and is a contributing editor to the materials prepared by Practical Law on the Alternative Investment Market.

Examples of representations include:

• Representing Ablon Group, a Central and Eastern European real estate development company, on its initial public offering and admission to the Alternative Investment Market;
• Advising JSC KazMunaiGas Exploration and Production on its US$2 billion initial public offering and listing on the Kazakh and London Stock Exchanges;
• Acting for Tau Capital plc, an investment fund, on its admission to the Alternative Investment Market and US$250 million placing;
• Acting for Luvata, a company owned by Nordic Capital, on its acquisition of Eco, a heating controls business;
• Representing IdaTech plc, a fuel cells business, on its initial public offering and admission to the Alternative Investment Market;
• Advising Starwood Capital in its public tender offer, together with Kerzner International and Waterford Group, for Wembley plc and subsequent acquisition of Wembley Inc.;
• Representing SAS AB on the investment by Carlson Hotels Worldwide Inc in the Radisson SAS Hospitality Group;
• Acting for Kalahari Diamond Resources plc on the sale of Kalahari Diamonds Limited to Petra Diamonds Limited;
• Acting for BMO Nesbitt Burns as placing agent on the $60 million placing of new shares and admission to AIM of UraMin Inc;
• Representing Aurora Russia Limited on its AIM listing which raised £75 million.  Aurora is an investment vehicle focused on making equity or equity related investments in small or mid-sized Russian private companies within the financial, business and consumer services sectors
• Representing Aurora Russia on its acquisitions of interests in Unistream (a Russian money transfer business), OSG Records Management and Invest Variant (a Russian DIY stores business).

Education
B.A. (Hons), Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 1992
C.P.E., College of Law, Chester, 1994
L.P.C., College of Law, Chester, 1995

Languages
English

Citizenship
British