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.
Shearman & Sterling’s antitrust practice again features in Global Competition Review’s (GCR) 2023 Global Elite rankings.
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Shearman & Sterling's antitrust practice again features
in Global Competition Review's (GCR) 2023
Global Elite rankings. The ranking, part of the extensive
GCR 100 research into the world's best competition
practices, details the work of the world's best 25 global
competition law practices.
GCR highlighted the five former enforcers on the team,
including David Higbee, the representation of JetBlue on its
proposed acquisition of Spirit Airlines creating the fifth-largest
carrier in the U.S., the strength in energy markets, as well as in
antitrust litigation and cartels.
Independently researched, GCR 100 is widely seen as a
guide to the world's top antitrust and competition law
practices. The research relies on quantitative and qualitative
analysis, as well as the insights of GCR reporters in the
United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and Hong Kong.
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.
