Ashton, Taylor J.

Taylor J. Ashton

Associate

taylor.ashton@lw.com
    Ashton, Taylor J.

    Taylor J. Ashton

    Associate

    taylor.ashton@lw.com

    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.

    In addition to his commercial work, Taylor maintains an active pro bono practice and currently serves as a member of the firm’s Mentoring Committee and as the Orange County office’s leader to the Parent Lawyers Group. Additionally, Taylor is a member of the Board of Directors of the First Tee of Orange County, a nonprofit organization that provides educational and life skills programs to children through the game of golf.

    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 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 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
    • Jefferies LLC as financial advisor to James Hardie, in connection with James Hardie’s US$8.75 billion combination with The AZEK Company.
    • 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

    *Matter handled prior to joining Latham

    Qualifications

    Bar Qualification

    • California

    Education

    • JD, University of Southern California Gould School of Law, 2018
    • BA, University of Arizona, 2015
      magna cum laude

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