Practice Expertise

  • Capital Markets and Securities
  • Corporate
  • Corporate Governance
  • Corporate Strategic M&A

Areas of Practice

  • Capital Markets and Securities
  • Corporate
  • Corporate Governance
  • Corporate Strategic M&A
  • Debt and Equity Financing
  • Energy Investment Funds and MLPs
  • Family Office
  • Financial Regulatory
  • Fund Formation and Management
  • Investment Banking and Broker Dealer
  • Investment Management
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Prime Brokerage and Equity Lending
  • Regulatory Compliance
  • Venture Capital and Emerging Company
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Profile

Taylor H. Wilson joined Haynes and Boone in 1990 and currently serves as managing partner of the firm. Taylor focuses his practice on corporate/securities, private equity, mergers and acquisitions and general corporate matters, and regularly advises investment advisers to both domestic and offshore funds with respect to fund formation and investment management activities. Taylor has been recognized as one of The Best Lawyers in America, Woodward/White, Inc., for Securities Law/Capital Markets Law 2007-2012; and for Corporate Law, 2013-2021. He has also been recognized as a Texas Super Lawyer, Thomson Reuters – Securities and Corporate Finance 2003-2013.

Taylor received his B.A. at Amherst College and his J.D. from Southern Methodist University.

Bar Admissions
Texas

Education
J.D., Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, 1990, Associate Senior Editor of The International Lawyer, 1989-1990
B.A., Amherst College, 1985, cum laude

Areas of Practice

  • Capital Markets and Securities
  • Corporate
  • Corporate Governance
  • Corporate Strategic M&A
  • Debt and Equity Financing
  • Energy Investment Funds and MLPs
  • Family Office
  • Financial Regulatory
  • Fund Formation and Management
  • Investment Banking and Broker Dealer
  • Investment Management
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Prime Brokerage and Equity Lending
  • Regulatory Compliance
  • Venture Capital and Emerging Company

Professional Career

Significant Accomplishments
The registration of numerous clients as both investment advisers (state and federal) and commodity pool operators, and assistance with ongoing regulatory compliance matters

The formation of multiple master/feeder hedge fund structures with a wide range of investment strategies

The formation of domestic and offshore funds focused on investments in credit default swaps and similar derivative instruments

The formation of domestic and offshore funds focused on investments in energy-related assets and securities

The formation private equity funds focused on investments in domestic and international real estate

The formation of funds focused on investments in domestic hedge funds and private equity funds

The sale of an interest in a hedge fund management company to a third-party investor

Multiple acquisitions by private equity firms of portfolio companies and the documentation of related equity ownership structures

The representation of special committees of independent directors in connection with interested party transactions




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