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Paul Taylor

Partner

Paul is a partner in our Corporate department and advises clients on a broad range of business areas including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity, banking and insolvency.

Paul graduated with an honours degree in law from the University of Hull in 1988. He then completed his Law Society finals at Chester Law School. Paul was articled at Lovells (including secondments to Esso and Clayton Utz in Australia) and qualified in 1991.

After 14 years with Hobson Audley (latterly Faegre & Benson), he joined Fox Williams LLP as a partner in its corporate group in March 2008. His clients include AIM listed companies, partnerships, licensed insolvency practitioners, property investors and emerging companies.

Representative transactions include:

Banking

• Negotiating trade finance facilities for SuperGroup from HSBC as part of SuperGroup's full market list
• Negotiating £130m facility from Barclays Bank and £14m facility from Lloyds Bank for Greenergy International Limited

M&A

• Acquisition and disposal of a £130m property portfolio
• Sale of three separate IT training/networking companies to the National Computing Centre (Impact, CIO Connect and PMP)
• Representing Tikit plc (AIM listed) on its acquisition of various UK and international companies
• Advising the management of Apollo Lifts on a secondary management buy out

Insolvency

• Advising on the pre-pack acquisition of the business of Washington Green Art galleries

Start-ups

• Advising on the establishment of Blue Hackle (a security business)
• Advising Trinity Mobile Limited (a company specialising in e-ticketing services)

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