News About A&O Shearman

Willkie builds in Dallas with PE partner trio from Akin, A&O Shearman

PE-focused office has doubled partner headcount since opening 14 months ago

16 Jul 2025

A&O Shearman bolsters Italian leveraged finance team with Linklaters partner hire

Diego Esposito joins A&O Shearman in Milan after 17 years at Magic Circle rival

8 Jul 2025

Quartet of firms guide Apollo-backed Athora’s £5.7bn takeover of UK pension insurer PIC

Sidley Austin and A&O Shearman advise Athora as HSF Kramer guides PIC and Slaughter and May advises PIC shareholders including CVC

4 Jul 2025

Macfarlanes, Uría Menéndez line up opposite A&O Shearman to advise on Santander’s £2.7bn TSB acquisition

Top UK and Spanish independent firms guide seller Sabadell as A&O Shearman counsels buyer Santander

3 Jul 2025

Sullivan & Cromwell adds regulatory heavyweight in London from A&O Shearman

Barnabas Reynolds joins having co-led A&O Shearman’s financial services regulatory group, in rare London lateral for US firm

16 Jun 2025

‘Absurd’: Judge overturns executive order against WilmerHale

Ruling follows similar orders against Perkins Coie and Jenner & Block being struck down earlier this month

28 May 2025

A&O Shearman rehires M&A partner from Skadden to boost London deals team

George Knighton returns after just under six years at US rival in the capital

20 May 2025

Reed Smith hires A&O Shearman trio across Singapore, Hong Kong

A&O Shearman’s joint Singapore managing partner Tim Beech moves over with newly-minted partner Regina Lui and an associate to boost US firm’s global corporate trust team

19 May 2025

BCLP adds London partners from A&O Shearman, Taylor Wessing

Legacy Shearman & Sterling’s London tax head Simon Letherman joins as corporate finance specialist Lerika Le Grange moves over from Taylor Wessing

14 May 2025

Paul Weiss hits A&O Shearman for London restructuring, infrastructure partners

US firm continues rapid London buildout with Tom Levine and Nick Charlwood

9 May 2025

Sidley hits A&O Shearman for nine lawyers in New York, DC

Hires include A&O Shearman’s US head of financial services regulatory, a finance partner, two counsel and five associates

2 May 2025

Linklaters lines up A&O Shearman partner as public international law head

Matthew Hodgson joins Magic Circle rival after more than two decades at A&O

1 May 2025

Wong adds Magic Circle heft to McDermott’s City credentials

Finance and restructuring partner spent more than 20 years at legacy A&O

28 Apr 2025

A&O Shearman rings in first post-merger partner promotions round

Thirty-three make the grade in round that sees M&A and energy practices gain most new partners

22 Apr 2025

A&O Shearman signals Chicago debut with hire of Mayer Brown duo

Arrival of energy and infrastructure partners sparks launch of Magic Circle UK firm’s 10th US office

7 Apr 2025

A&O Shearman IP teams depart for White & Case and Clifford Chance in London and Paris

Former A&O IP head David Stone joins White & Case in London with two more lawyers as IP partner David Por moves to CC in Paris with a two-lawyer team

14 Feb 2025

A&O Shearman, Slaughters shepherd American Axle’s £1.16bn acquisition of UK car parts group Dowlais

Cravath also called in for deal that continues exodus of companies from London Stock Exchange

30 Jan 2025

EU competition law ‘pathfinder’ and former IBA president Michael Reynolds has died, aged 75

Tributes led by IBA president Jaime Carey and former A&O senior partner David Morley

29 Jan 2025

King’s Counsel appointments rise to 105 in largest cohort for four years

A&O Shearman partner among tally; Bar Council expresses concern over absence of Black appointees

24 Jan 2025

Gearing leaves Fountain Court to build on Singapore connections

Former co-head of arbitration to go solo in London but continue at Singapore’s Duxton Hill Chambers

20 Jan 2025