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 Market Abuse Regulation sets out the EU requirements on insider dealing, the unlawful disclosure of inside information and market manipulation and will apply directly across the EU from July 3, 2016.
On December 18, 2015, a Commission Implementing Directive on the
procedures and requirements for protection of individuals that
report an actual or potential infringement of the Market Abuse
Regulation to a national regulator was published in the Official
Journal of the European Union. The Implementing Directive sets out
the procedures for reporting, record-keeping requirements, measures
for the protection of whistle blowers that are working under a
contract of employment and arrangements for the protection of
personal data of whistle blowers. Member States must transpose the
requirements of the Implementing Directive into their national laws
by July 3, 2016 and apply the new legislation from that date. The
Market Abuse Regulation sets out the EU requirements on insider
dealing, the unlawful disclosure of inside information and market
manipulation and will apply directly across the EU from July 3,
2016.
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