News About A&O Shearman

‘Trump Bump’ may boost US M&A activity next year, A&O Shearman report says

UK-listed companies are increasingly being targeted by US acquirers, according to Magic Circle firm

19 Dec 2024

Simpson Thacher adds partners from A&O Shearman, Clifford Chance for Luxembourg launch

Firm second in as many days to announce Luxembourg debut with hires from A&O Shearman

27 Nov 2024

White & Case lands ‘elite’ M&A partner from A&O Shearman in London

Richard Browne arrives after more than 30 years at the Magic Circle firm

20 Nov 2024

A&O Shearman recruits Travers Smith incentives head

Mahesh Varia exits after nearly 27 years at top UK independent

8 Nov 2024

Linklaters secures top-flight A&O Shearman finance team in New York

A&O Shearman’s financial markets co-head David Lucking moves across with three more partners

28 Oct 2024

A&O Shearman ‘moving to all-equity partnership’

Merged firm is reportedly adopting a three-level modified lockstep

18 Oct 2024

Bowmans absorbs A&O Shearman’s South Africa legal team team in Johannesburg

Group including eight partners moves over as A&O Shearman winds down Johannesburg office

3 Oct 2024

A&O Shearman adds leveraged finance partner in Paris from Latham

Michel Houdayer latest in string of defections from Latham's Europe offices

16 Sep 2024

A&O Shearman, Baker McKenzie score roles on Methanex’s $2.05bn OCI deal

Reed Smith also called in for sale of OCI’s methanol business alongside McCarthy Tétrault and Loyens & Loeff

9 Sep 2024

A&O Shearman to axe 10% of partnership and close Johannesburg office

Consulting arm will also close as UK giant takes ‘difficult but necessary’ step to ‘reshape’ business

6 Sep 2024

A&O Shearman trainee sells AI start-up to Thomson Reuters

Legal publishing giant will use technology to improve its genAI assistant

21 Aug 2024

Davis Polk signals London expansion with partner raid on A&O Shearman

Wall Street leader bolsters private equity bench with hire of Gordon Milne

6 Aug 2024

A&O Shearman expands leveraged finance team with partner hire from Barclays

Filippo Crosara joins A&O Shearman’s debt finance practice in London

23 Jul 2024

A&O grows revenue, profit in pre-merger year

Profit before tax jumps 17.2% to £1.0bn as PEP hits £2.2m ahead of tie-up with Shearman & Sterling

11 Jul 2024

Proskauer scoops two partners apiece from A&O Shearman and Cahill in London

A&O’s former banking co-head Philip Bowden among banking and finance quartet

4 Jul 2024

A&O Shearman follows Magic Circle rivals in raising NQ pay to £150k

Transatlantic firm equals Clifford Chance, Linklaters and Freshfields but still lags US firms at the top of the market

31 May 2024

Bayer loses appeal at UK court over its blockbuster blood thinner drug

Decision upholds earlier ruling revoking patent covering the drug Xarelto, further clearing way for generic manufacturers to enter the lucrative market

29 May 2024

Memorial service announced for international ‘legal ambassador’ Stephen Denyer

Ceremony at London’s Temple Church to be held in honour of former director of strategic relationships at Law Society of England and Wales

17 May 2024

Hausfeld doubles down on antitrust with hires in London, Germany

Joanna Christoforou joins from Morgan Lewis & Bockius’s London office as René Galle moves over in Hamburg from A&O Shearman

15 May 2024

Skadden recruits SoFi GC, Shearman fintech co-chair to lead financial institutions regulatory group

Adam Cohen and Mark Chorazak join in New York and Washington DC respectively amid increasing US bank regulation

9 May 2024