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
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
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
A&O Shearman recruits Travers Smith incentives head
Mahesh Varia exits after nearly 27 years at top UK independent
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
A&O Shearman ‘moving to all-equity partnership’
Merged firm is reportedly adopting a three-level modified lockstep
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
A&O Shearman adds leveraged finance partner in Paris from Latham
Michel Houdayer latest in string of defections from Latham's Europe offices
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
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
A&O Shearman trainee sells AI start-up to Thomson Reuters
Legal publishing giant will use technology to improve its genAI assistant
Davis Polk signals London expansion with partner raid on A&O Shearman
Wall Street leader bolsters private equity bench with hire of Gordon Milne
A&O Shearman expands leveraged finance team with partner hire from Barclays
Filippo Crosara joins A&O Shearman’s debt finance practice in London
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
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
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
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
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
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
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