• Solicitor qualified in England & Wales

Advising:

• CME Group Inc. (CME), in relation to a binding agreement entered into with Saudi-exchange listed Saudi Tadawul Group Holding Company (STG), for STG to acquire a 32.6 percent stake in Dubai Mercantile Exchange (DME) – January 2024
• Development Partners International on its US$230m acquisition of a fertiliser distribution and marketing business, Solevo Group, from Helios Investment Partners – April 2023
• J.P. Morgan on a $700m multi-year stop-loss transaction with Swiss Re – March 2023
• Etrading Software and shareholders on an investment by Lloyds Banking Group’s private equity arm in Etrading Software, a global provider of technology-led solutions to global capital markets – December 2022
• Ares Management on its £178m debt facilities to alternative network broadband provider, Brsk – October 2022
• RiverStone International on the acquisition of Endurance at Lloyd's (EAL) from Sompo International, a leading global provider of commercial and consumer property and casualty (re)insurance – September 2022
• Titan Trust Bank in relation to Titan Trust Bank’s acquisition (by an auction sale process) of Union Bank of Nigeria including assisting with pre-sale restructuring – June 2022
• Modern Times Group on the sale of ESL Gaming, the world's largest independent esports company, to the Savvy Gaming Group (SGG) – January 2022
• Taylor Maritime Investments Limited on $253m IPO of UK listed shipping investment fund – June 2021
• Europa Capital on the £1bn sale of the former Ford stamping plant in Dagenham in the UK to the Peabody Group – May 2021
• Sonangol on US$600m sale of shares in Puma Energy to Trafigura and its acquisition of Puma Energy's strategic assets in Angola – April 2021
• TortoiseEcofin on the IPO of UK listed investment trust investing in renewable energy sustainable infrastructure assets – January 2021
• TPAY MOBILE (TPAY) on its acquisition of 100-percent of the shares of leading Turkish FinTech company Trend Ödeme Kuruluşu A.Ş., known in the market as Payguru – June 2020
• Kaefer on the acquisition of John Wood Group industrial services business - February 2020
• The sale of Charles Taylor Managing Agency to Premia Holdings – September 2019
• Unily on a growth investment in a provider of digital workplace platforms – June 2019

Tier 3, Corporate and commercial: Corporate tax, The Legal 500, 2023
“Michael Alliston – incredibly detail-orientated, easy to work with and efficient in getting to the right answer.”

Tier 3, Corporate and commercial: Corporate tax, The Legal 500, 2022
"Michael Alliston – dogged in getting to the bottom of the point. Friendly and relaxed to work with."

Tier 3, Corporate and commercial: Corporate tax, The Legal 500, 2021
"Clients praise Michael Alliston for being 'technically brilliant' with a broad transactional tax and cross-border M&A practice."
"Michael Alliston is technically brilliant and can perform thorough research and analysis at speed."

Michael is a contributing author to Lexis Nexis' Guide to FATCA and CRS Compliance.