"Advice Is Judged by Results, Not by Intentions"
Ian Taylor
Public and Private Corporate Finance
Large offerings to small investments
Our work has included complex securities offerings as well as venture capital and smaller private equity financings.
United States, Australia and Globally
Our clients have included publicly held multi-national corporations as well as smaller, privately held entities and investors in the USA, Hong Kong and China, the United Kingdom, Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands, Australia, Germany, Switzerland, France and other countries around the world
Specialist partners
As needed, we work with local experts and specialist advisors. We match transaction requirements with the proper resources for effective execution.
General Commercial in Multiple Jurisdictions
Finding Solutions
We have gained a generalist knowledge of corporate laws and processes from numerous countries. This enables us to match up requirements in various jurisdictions and help find solutions to meet the client's objectives.
Tax driven planning
It can be about setting up tax efficiency or restructuring a business on a tax-free basis. Tax is often a key driver. For this we work closely with experts from various jurisdictions. We work to integrate such advice into the corporate, contractual and other commercial elements of the transaction.
Solutions focus
We typically take the role of overall management of the project. From the early proposal stages to the documentation and implementation requirements, we integrate and coordinate input from experts as needed to identify the best solution and drive the process with efficiency.
Global and Domestic Corporate Structures
Finding the right structures
Our personnel have advised on numerous fund structuring alternatives for closed-end and open-end funds, onshore and off-shore. These have involved jurisdictions such as the United States, Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands, Hong Kong and China, Thailand, Singapore, Japan and other countries around the world.
Finding the right outcomes
We work closely with tax advisors and local experts in various jurisdictions on a needs basis to ensure tax treatment and commercial outcomes consistent with investor expectations.
Managing project completion
We specialize in complex, multi-jurisdictional projects from a solutions focus, not just as professional advisors. Our experience drives efficiency in coordinating and integrating local experts and specialist advisors to meet completion requirements.
General Commercial
Business objectives
We believe there is great value in understanding the client's business and general industry (client's help clearly needed). We are committed to engage, as needed, in our clients’ general commercial transactions.
Enhancing enterprise value
We approach each transaction as a task in itself, but undertaken pursuant to an overall plan to build out standard templates for our clients’ internal structure. Our goal is to develop consistent culture and firm identity.
Building customized strategies
We create, over time and one transaction at a time, a customized library of template forms and strategies specific for each country where the client is most active.
