Taylor L. Anderson

tanderson@hbaa.law
801.922.5003

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Taylor L. Anderson is a partner at Hansen Black Anderson Ashcraft. Mr. Anderson is a business lawyer who assists emerging and mature companies with various legal matters, including formation, structure, corporate governance, financings, private offerings, recapitalizations, acquisitions, mergers, joint ventures, other commercial transactions and litigation/dispute resolution. He also assists and counsels individuals and businesses with respect to real estate transactions (including residential and commercial leases) and employment matters (including compliance, preparing employee handbooks and drafting and negotiating employment, separation, proprietary information and noncompetition agreements). 

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Representative Transactions and Engagements

Mr. Anderson has represented various parties in numerous mergers and acquisitions and debt and equity financing transactions involving purchase or investment amounts ranging from a few thousand dollars to millions of dollars, and has processed due diligence, assisted with transaction structuring, and negotiated and drafted substantive transaction documents in connection with such representation. Mr. Anderson has also represented parties in other complex commercial transactions. By way of example, Mr. Anderson has represented:   

Mergers and Acquisitions

• a nationally-recognized restaurant chain in an asset acquisition by a strategic buyer;
  
• an out-of-state school for troubled teens in an asset acquisition by a private equity-funded buyer;
  
• a local software company in an asset acquisition by a national competitor; 
  
• a litigation technology services company in an equity acquisition by an international strategic buyer;
  
• a high-end painting and staining company in an asset acquisition by a local buyer; 
  
• a private equity-funded acquirer of residential treatment centers in the acquisition of treatment facilities in various states;
  
• an industrial hose company in an equity acquisition by a national strategic buyer;
  
• dental offices and dentists in asset and equity acquisitions;
  
• a multi-state steel fabrication company in an asset acquisition by a competitor;
  
• a real estate development company in an equity acquisition by buyers located in several states;
  
• a veterinary clinic in an equity acquisition by a national strategic buyer; 
  
• a heating and air-conditioning company in an asset acquisition by a national competitor;
  

Debt and Equity Financing

• an online education company in multiple leveraged equity financing transactions involving a national strategic buyer;
  
• a food storage company in an equity financing involving a private equity-funded investor; 
  
• a national strategic buyer in an equity financing involving a local civil construction company;
  
• a New York based investment group in debt and equity financing transactions involving an animated film company;
  
• a private investor in debt and equity financing transactions involving a sports apparel company;
  

Other Matters

• a restaurant chain in the buyout of a founder and corporate restructuring;
  
• a real estate development company in a private offering of securities;
  
• partners of an international aeronautics joint venture in the buyout of another partner;
  
• an international equipment manufacturing and leasing conglomerate in a corporate restructuring and private offering of securities;
  
• a nationally recognized fitness company in negotiating and documenting a license with a major television network and an international joint venture; and
  
• an online marketing company ranked as one of America’s fastest-growing private companies by Inc. 500 with respect to various legal matters.
  

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Education

• Willamette University College of Law (J.D., 2003, cum laude)
• Editor in Chief, Willamette Law Review
• Recipient, Trustees’ and Jeannette E. Mowery Scholarship
• Atkinson Graduate School of Management (M.B.A., 2003, with honors)
• Brigham Young University (B.A. English, 1999, cum laude)
• Recipient, Scholarly Academic Achievement Award

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Other Professional Experience and Memberships

• Associate and Partner, Bennett Tueller Johnson & Deere, LLC, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2003-2011
  
• Adjunct Faculty (Business Law), Salt Lake Community College
  
• Member, Beta Gamma Sigma and Pi Alpha Alpha
  
• Member, Utah State Bar Examiner Committee
  
• Member, Utah State Bar Business Law Section
  
• Member, Utah State Bar Labor and Employment Section
  
• Voted by peers as one of Utah’s 2012 “Legal Elite” (corporate law and transactions) as published by Utah Business
  

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Publications

• “Obtaining Interest on an Oregon Construction Contractors Board Final Order: An Experience in Incongruity and Unnecessary Analysis,” 39 Willamette L. Rev. 779 (2003)
  
• “The Priest-Penitent Privilege: A Mormon Perspective,” 41 Idaho L. Rev. 55 (2004)
  

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Personal 

• Married with five children
• Interests include tennis, music and cars