News About A&O Shearman
‘The biggest business risk is being too slow to start’: general counsel navigate the future of luxury
A&O Shearman/Luxury Law Summit roundtable explores themes including changing consumer behaviour, brand collaboration and partnerships, employment reforms and the impact of agentic commerce
A&O Shearman posts flat revenue as PEP returns to pre-merger levels
Turnover holds steady at $3.7bn as profit per equity partner rises 12% to $2.9m following period of partner cuts and departures
A&O Shearman unveils latest Fuse innovation accelerator programme cohort
A total of 18 legaltech and digital asset firms make the cut for the programme’s 10th cohort
A&O Shearman cuts business services roles in London
Up to 20 roles affected as transatlantic firm becomes latest in string of international players to axe jobs
Mayer Brown builds in Tokyo with seven-lawyer A&O Shearman team
Arrival of partners Toshiro Mochizuki and Kana Morimura follows recent hire of A&O Shearman’s Tokyo head
Paul Hastings adds London high-yield partner from A&O Shearman
Brad Weyland to help plug gap created when Paul Hastings partner duo exited in February for Sullivan & Cromwell
McDermott hires former A&O Shearman partner to boost European antitrust team
Kristina Nordlander brings more than two decades of experience on EU competition matters
Weil, A&O Shearman lead Rio Tinto’s $260bn merger talks with Glencore
Weil guides Glencore as A&O Shearman acts for Rio Tinto in what could be largest-ever M&A deal
Sullivan & Cromwell continues London buildout with A&O Shearman finance hire
Patrick Clancy reunites with former A&O Shearman partner Barney Reynolds as S&C continues to expand rapidly in the City
Latham adds trio of real estate finance partners from A&O Shearman in London
Team includes A&O’s global real estate finance head David Oppenheimer
Gibson Dunn hits A&O Shearman for London disputes partner
Employment specialist Robbie Sinclair joins as US firm focuses on building City disputes bench alongside its already strong deals team
Morgan Lewis debuts in Saudi Arabia with hires from A&O Shearman, Al Tamimi
Former A&O Shearman Riyadh co-lead to spearhead launch of six-lawyer office, the latest in a procession of Saudi openings by international law firms
Top executives from A&O Shearman, Baker McKenzie, Gibson Dunn and White & Case to speak at Law Firm Marketing Summit
London conference chaired by BCLP’s Alessandra Almeida Jones will address growth in ‘Age of Chaos’
Reed Smith, A&O Shearman see trio of German partners exit Big Law for independent practice
FGvW gains two real estate partners from Reed Smith in Frankfurt, while A&O loses arbitration partner to newly minted disputes boutique in Hamburg
Reed Smith hires regulatory partner in China from A&O Shearman
Jieni Ji joins leading US firm to bolster regulatory offering in Shanghai and Hong Kong
Paul Weiss, A&O and Stibbe advise on Keurig Dr Pepper’s €16bn purchase of coffee giant JDE Peet’s
Paul Weiss and Dutch firm Stibbe are advising Keurig Dr Pepper, while A&O is counselling JDE Peet’s
A&O Shearman restocks Luxembourg funds bench with Clifford Chance duo
Hires follow funds lawyers exiting for Simpson Thacher, legacy Herbert Smith Freehills’ Luxembourg launches
A&O Shearman, Slaughter and May guide Brookfield’s £2.4bn Just Group acquisition
A&O Shearman reps Brookfield in deal that deepens Canadian investment giant’s push into UK pension risk transfer market
A&O Shearman New York partners exit, launch litigation boutique
David Esseks and Gene Ingoglia launch firm specialising in trials, high-stakes litigation, investigations and white-collar defence