International law firm Taylor Wessing today announces a major new hire to its market leading corporate technology team. Partner Mike Turner will join Taylor Wessing as head of the firm’s UK TMT industry group, covering advertising and marketing, broadcasting and film, gaming, interactive media, music, press and publishing, social media, sports and sponsorship, technology and telecoms. He joins from Osborne Clarke, where he was international head of the Digital Business group.
Mike has more than twenty-five years of experience advising private and publicly held clients on corporate transactions in the technology, telecoms, AMS, traditional media and digital media sectors. As well as handling mergers, acquisitions and disposals and venture capital and private equity financings, he has advised clients in the UK and overseas on joint ventures, restructurings and governance.
Taylor Wessing has a reputation as a leading adviser to the TMT sector internationally, with more than 100 lawyers dedicated to tech sector clients. The firm undertakes a full range of legal services for clients throughout their life-cycle, supporting start-ups to tech giants with advice on corporate transactions, funding arrangements, intellectual property, commercial contracts, employment issues and disputes. In October 2010, Taylor Wessing launched an office in Tech City dedicated to supporting the high concentration of fast-growing digital technology start-ups in the area.
