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Elliot Michaelson Taylor

Elliot Michaelson Taylor

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Elliot is a senior associate in the Tax and Incentives group, specialising in employee incentives.

Elliot advises on a full range of employee incentive and employment tax matters, and has particular experience with takeovers, mergers and acquisitions, structuring of tax-favoured and non-tax favoured equity arrangements, and equity incentivisation for management and start-ups.

Elliot is joint secretary of the Share Plan Lawyers Tax Committee.

Elliot is a member of Taylor Wessing's multidisciplinary Israel Group.

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Since 2023 Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing
2017 - 2023 Associate, Charles Russell Speechlys
2015 - 2017 Trainee Solicitor, Kirkland & Ellis
2017 Admitted as a lawyer, England and Wales
2015 LPC, BPP University
2014 LLB, University of Manchester

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Since 2023 Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing
2017 - 2023 Associate, Charles Russell Speechlys
2015 - 2017 Trainee Solicitor, Kirkland & Ellis

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2017 Admitted as a lawyer, England and Wales
2015 LPC, BPP University
2014 LLB, University of Manchester

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Advising Chambers in £400 million sale to Abry Partners

We have advised the management team of Chambers and Partners on the sale of Inflexion's investment in the firm to Abry Partners, a leading middle market private equity firm headquartered in North America.

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