Taylor J. Ashton

taylor.ashton@lw.com

+1.714.755.8208

Profile

Taylor Ashton is an associate in the Orange County office of Latham & Watkins and is a member of the firm's Corporate Department.

Taylor focuses on corporate representation, with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance matters.

He routinely advises public and private companies and financial institutions on a range of strategic transactions and related corporate matters, including:

Mergers and acquisitions
Public company representation
Takeover defense and shareholder activism
Corporate governance

Clients that Taylor has worked with have included public and private companies in the technology, entertainment, hospitality, life sciences, and healthcare industries.

Taylor graduated from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, where he was a finalist in the Hale Moot Court Honors Program. Prior to law school, Taylor graduated magna cum laude with Honors from the University of Arizona.

Experience

Taylor's public and private mergers and acquisitions experience includes advising:

Tapestry, Inc. in its pending US$8.5 billion acquisition of Capri Holdings
Skrewball Whiskey in its sale of a majority stake to Pernod Ricard
Galaxy Gaming in its pending acquisition by Evolution
Landsea Homes in its US$242.5 million acquisition of Antares Homes
Truepill in its acquisition by LetsGetChecked
Inari Medical in its cross-border acquisition of LimFlow S.A.
Syntiant Corp. in its pending US$150 million acquisition of Knowles Corporation’s Consumer MEMS Microphone Division
Ironwood Pharmaceuticals in its US$1 billion cross-border all-cash tender offer for VectivBio
American Advisors Group in its sale to Finance of America Companies Inc.
Obagi in connection with its US$1.2 billion business combination with Waldencast and Milk Makeup
Lions Gate Entertainment in connection with its acquisition of the majority of Spyglass Media Group’s feature film library and minority investment in Spyglass*
Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. in its sale of certain Southeast Asian networks*
Lakeshore Entertainment in the sale of its film library to Vine Alternative Investments*
A publicly traded sales and marketing company in the sale of its collection of foodservice businesses
A publicly traded capital equipment and services company in its acquisition of a technology supply and manufacturing company
Centerview Partners and J.P. Morgan Securities as financial advisors to Global Blood Therapeutics, in connection with Global Blood Therapeutics’ US$5.4 billion sale to Pfizer
J.P. Morgan Securities as financial advisor to Pzena Investment Management, in connection with Pzena’s transaction to become a private company
Perella Weinberg Partners as financial advisor to Orthofix Medical, in connection with the merger of equals between Orthofix and SeaSpine Holdings
Centerview Partners and PJT Partners as financial advisors to Blucora, Inc., in connection with Blucora’s sale of Tax Act to an affiliate of Cinven Group Ltd.
Piper Sandler as financial advisor to Syros Pharmaceuticals, in connection with the merger of equals between Syros and TYME Technologies