Chris Taylor

Chris Taylor

Partner · Mills Oakley

Melbourne, VIC

Doyle’s Guide Recommended 2025 · Business & CommercialSolicitorMills OakleyMelbourneRegister-checked 17 September 2026

Quick answer

Chris Taylor is a partner at Mills Oakley in Melbourne, working in mergers and acquisitions, cross-border transactions and foreign investment into Australia. Doyle’s Guide listed Chris Taylor as Recommended among Victoria’s business and commercial lawyers in 2025, and Chris Taylor does not appear in that list’s 2026 edition. The Victorian register of lawyers lists Christopher Taylor as a current practitioner (Principal with Trust).

Firm

Mills Oakley

Role

Partner

Office

Melbourne

Doyle’s Guide

Recommended 2025

Register

Principal with Trust

About Chris Taylor

Chris Taylor is a partner in Mills Oakley's Corporate Advisory practice in Melbourne, working mainly on private and public M&A and unlisted capital raising. He has advised on numerous cross-border matters and works across a broad mix of industries, with clients ranging from early-stage companies to ASX-listed corporations and overseas investors. He is a member of FINSIA and is recognised in Best Lawyers Australia for mergers and acquisitions, corporate law and commercial law.

Doyle’s Guide listed Chris Taylor as Recommended among Victoria’s business and commercial lawyers in 2025, and Chris Taylor does not appear in that list’s 2026 edition.

Doyle’s Guide rankings

Chris Taylor’s most recent listings. Every edition we could verify is set out in the ranking history below.

About Doyle’s Guide rankings. Doyle’s Guide produces annual tier rankings of individual lawyers from peer, client and referrer surveys. Tiers run Market Leader / Preeminent / Leading / Recommended. We report Doyle’s published rankings with attribution; we do not produce these tiers ourselves. Read Doyle’s methodology →

Doyle’s ranking history

Every Doyle’s listing we could verify for Chris Taylor. Each list page was opened individually on doylesguide.com, one edition at a time, on 17 September 2026; no run of years has been inferred from a single page.

Years are the edition years Doyle’s publishes. Chris Taylor is not in the Victorian business and commercial lawyers list for 2021–2023, 2026, which we confirmed by searching each of those pages; that list was first published in 2021. We searched Doyle’s Victorian and national lawyer lists for commercial, corporate, property, leasing, insolvency, technology, employment, construction and estates work from 2015 to 2026.

What Chris Taylor handles

As listed by Mills Oakley:

Sectors. Start-ups; ASX-listed companies; Offshore investors.

Career and background

Other recognition

Listings in other directories, as published by the source shown. We have not independently verified these.

Register details

Chris Taylor is listed on the Victorian register of lawyers kept by the Victorian Legal Services Board + Commissioner. The entry is reproduced below as it appeared on 17 September 2026 (the address field is omitted).

About the register. The register records every person entitled to practise law in Victoria. A principal certificate is held by a partner or director of a law practice; “with trust” means the practitioner may receive trust money. Areas of practice are nominated by the practitioner. View the register entry →
Not to be confused with. A barrister at the New South Wales Bar, Christopher P Taylor, has a separate page on this site. This page is about the Mills Oakley partner.

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Chris Taylor?

Chris Taylor is a partner at Mills Oakley in Melbourne, working in mergers and acquisitions, cross-border transactions and foreign investment into Australia.

Is Chris Taylor ranked by Doyle’s Guide?

Doyle’s Guide listed Chris Taylor as Recommended among Victoria’s business and commercial lawyers in 2025, and Chris Taylor does not appear in that list’s 2026 edition. Each edition is linked in the ranking history on this page.

What does Chris Taylor specialise in?

According to Mills Oakley: Mergers and acquisitions; Cross-border transactions; Foreign investment into Australia; Joint ventures; Warranty and indemnity insurance; Securities law; Restructuring; Commercial contracting; Corporate governance.

How do I contact Chris Taylor?

Through Mills Oakley. This profile is editorial; Chris Taylor has not claimed it and has no commercial relationship with Lawyer Reviews.

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