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Practice Experience

Allan Taylor is a partner in the Corporate Department in the London office. Allan has experience in UK and international mergers and acquisitions, equity capital markets, joint ventures and private equity transactions. He 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 Strauss Group Limited on the acquisition by TPG of 25.1% of Strauss Coffee NV.
Representing Hoare Govett and Merrill Lynch International as underwriters on the US$600 million rights issue by Imperial Energy Corporation plc;
Advising BMO Nesbitt Burns and Canaccord Adams as placing agents on the US$160 million secondary offering by Polo Resources Limited on the Alternative Investment Market;
Representing Zhaikmunai LP on its US$100 million initial public offering and listing of GDRs on the London Stock Exchange;
Representing Aurora Russia, an AIM listed private equity company, on its acquisitions of interests in Unistream (a Russian money transfer business), OSG Records Management and Invest Variant (a Russian DIY stores business);
Representing IdaTech plc, a fuel cells business, on its initial public offering and admission to the Alternative Investment Market;
Acting for Luvata, a company owned by Nordic Capital, on its acquisition of Eco, a heating controls business;
Acting for Tau Capital plc, an investment fund, on its admission to the Alternative Investment Market and US$250 million placing;
Acting for BMO Nesbitt Burns as placing agent on the US$60 million placing of new shares and admission to AIM of UraMin Inc and subsequent US$230 million secondary offering;
Representing Ablon Group, a Central and Eastern European real estate development company, on its initial public offering and admission to the Alternative Investment Market; and
Advising JSC KazMunaiGas Exploration and Production on its US$2 billion initial public offering and listing on the Kazakh and London Stock Exchanges.

Bars and Courts
England and Wales, 1997

Education
LPC, College of Law in Chester, 1995
CPE, College of Law in Chester, 1994
BA (Hons), Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 1992

Languages
English

Citizenship
British