Ylan Steiner
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Work Department
Corporate (specialising in private equity).
Position
Ylan Steiner is a partner in the corporate department at SJ Berwin LLP. Ylan qualified in 1997 and has been a partner since 2005. Ylan covers a broad range of corporate and private equity transactions, with particular emphasis on management buyouts, portfolio (direct secondary) transactions), venture and growth financings and a full-range of related exits. Following an earlier career as a computer programmer/software consultant, Ylan has extensive experience within the technology industry, and also advises a number of growth companies on their M&A and financing requirements. Amongst numerous other transactions in 2007, Ylan has advised RIT Capital Partners plc on their participation in the equity financing of the $2.4bn public-to-private acquisition of The Reader’s Digest and their disposal of interests in Asia-Pacific’s leading serviced office network, and headquartered in Hong Kong various financing for technology and life science venture investor, including Kennet Capital, Abingworth Bioventures, Apax Partners, 4D Global Energy, Accel Partners, Softbank Europe, DFJ Esprit and Amadeus Capital Partners. Key highlights in 2006 include advising SGAM/$D Global Energy Development Capital Fund on its participation in a £200m financing of Fairfield Energy, a UK-based North Sea oil exploration and production company; and advising the shareholders of Eclipse Scientific (including RIT Capital Partner Plc and Clearbrook Capital) on the £50m sale of the company. Ylan is a regular speaker at seminars, having led the sessions on legal aspects of management buyout investments at the recent EVCA Insitute – Foundation Course for Investment professionals in Barcelona and Amsterdam. He also spoke on ‘The Evolution of the Secondary Market’ at the 5th Annual Private Equity Saved Forum in Zurcih in January 2008, and participated on the panel at the 2006 IBA conference debating ‘The convergence of private equity and hedge funds as an asset class’.
Career
Qualified 1997; partner 2005. Regular speaker at seminars, having led the sessions on legal aspects of both venture capital investments and management buyout transactions at the recent EVCA Institute – Foundation Course for Investment Professionals in Budapest in October 2005. He also regularly participates in the M&A sessions for the annual Euromoney Corporate Finance School.
