A&O Shearman was formed in 2024 via the merger of two historic firms, Allen & Overy and Shearman & Sterling. With nearly 4,000 lawyers globally, we are equally fluent in English law, U.S. law and the laws of the world’s most dynamic markets.
This combination creates a new kind of law firm, one built to achieve unparalleled outcomes for our clients on their most complex, multijurisdictional matters – everywhere in the world. A firm that advises at the forefront of the forces changing the current of global business and that is unrivalled in its global strength.
Our clients benefit from the collective experience of teams who work with many of the world’s most influential companies and institutions, and have a history of precedent-setting innovations.
Together our lawyers advise more than a third of NYSE-listed businesses, a fifth of the NASDAQ and a notable proportion of the London Stock Exchange, the Euronext, Euronext Paris and the Tokyo and Hong Kong Stock Exchanges.
. The referral follows a request in May 2015 by the Commission to 11 Member States, including the above six Member States, to fully implement the BRRD.
On October 22, 2015, the European Commission announced that it
had referred the Czech Republic, Luxembourg, the Netherlands,
Poland, Romania and Sweden to the Court of Justice of the EU for
failing to transpose the BRRD into national legislation. The BRRD
was due to be transposed by all EU Member States by December 31,
2014. The referral follows a request in May 2015 by the Commission
to 11 Member States, including the above six Member States, to
fully implement the BRRD.
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