Taylor Lewis is a partner in the Corporate and M&A team at Mercier & Valez, advising large corporates and financial sponsors on high-value transactions with a cross-border dimension. He grew up in Hong Kong before reading PPE at Oxford, subsequently training as a solicitor in London and spending three years on secondment to the firm's Frankfurt office, an experience that gave him a fluency in continental European deal structures that remains central to his practice today. William has acted on a significant number of public takeovers, private acquisitions, and joint venture arrangements over the course of his career, often in situations involving multiple regulatory regimes and compressed timescales. He is known for the clarity of his thinking under pressure and for his ability to anticipate where a transaction is likely to encounter difficulty, helping clients get ahead of problems rather than manage them reactively. He has been recognised by the leading legal directories for a number of consecutive years and is a regular speaker at corporate law conferences in London and Brussels.
