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Keystone Law Offices
48 CHANCERY LANE
LONDON
WC2A 1JF
England
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Ian Taylorson

Position
As a corporate and commercial lawyer, Ian advises small to medium-sized organisations on a wide variety of transactions, both domestically and internationally. He has particularly strong experience of working with companies in the media and entertainment sector. Ian trained at Ashursts before founding a City practice which he managed for 14 years; this practice was merged with Constant & Constant and subsequently TLT in 2007. Ian is currently chairman of the trustees of a company pension fund. Ian s areas of expertise are mergers and acquisitions, assets sales and purchases, company and group restructuring, MBO and MBI transactions, shareholder and investment agreements and advertising and media contracts. Ian s key achievements include: (i) acting for the shareholders of a substantial stationers group in a merger to become the largest independent stationers in the UK; (ii) acting for the shareholders of the leading UK branding company in a sale to WPP; (iii) advising the US shareholders of one of the world s leading motivation and incentive companies in its acquisition by a large UK group; (iv) acting for the management of an MBI in the acquisition of Channel Islands TV; (v) advising a leading freight forwarding company in the oil and gas business on its reorganisation of the worldwide group in eight different jurisdictions; (vi) advising the Government of the Maldives including producing a report on the collapse of its international airline – Air Maldives.
Career
Trained Ashurst, qualified 1975. Martin Hodson & Co 1976-78; Beesley Taylorson 1979-92; Constant & Constant, 1902-2007; TLT, 2007-12; Keystone Law, 2012.
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market
- Insurance > Insurance: corporate and regulatory
- Insurance > Insurance: corporate and regulatory
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Private client > Court of protection
- Corporate and commercial > International business reorganisations
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Licensing
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- Real estate > Residential property
Firm Rankings
- Employment > Senior executives
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Private client > Family
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Gaming and betting
- Finance > Islamic finance
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Film & TV
- Insurance > Product liability: defendant
- Dispute resolution > Professional discipline
- Transport > Travel
- Private client > Art and cultural property
- Transport > Aviation
- Insurance > Clinical negligence: defendant
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech: corporate and commercial
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech: regulatory
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Employment > Immigration: personal
- Insurance > Insurance and reinsurance litigation
- Insurance > Insurance litigation: for policyholders
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Smaller Deals, £10m-£100m
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Music
- Corporate and commercial > Partnership
- Employment > Pensions (non-contentious)
- Insurance > Personal injury: defendant
- Transport > Shipping
- Finance > Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Employment > Employers
- Employment > Immigration
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: patents (contentious and non-contentious)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Real estate > Planning
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Power (including electricity and nuclear)
- Real estate > Property litigation
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Reputation management
- Corporate and commercial > Venture capital
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Insurance > Insurance: corporate and regulatory
- Industry focus > Life sciences and healthcare
- Private client > Court of protection
- Insurance > Professional negligence