Taylor J. Ashton

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
• Inari Medical in its cross-border acquisition of LimFlow S.A.
• 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

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham