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 Senior Partner and Chair Adam Hakki has been named to the inaugural Forbes list of the Top 200 Lawyers in the United States.
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Shearman & Sterling’s Senior Partner and Chair Adam
Hakki has been named to the inaugural Forbes list of the
Top 200 Lawyers in the United States.
The Top Lawyers list is the product of
“rigorous, multi-stage process” conducted by
Forbes to identify the “best in the business”
among lawyers involved “in the most consequential cases,
deals or legal trends in recent years.” Adam is one of only
200 lawyers nationally selected for this list across all fields and
one of only 11 lawyers in New York selected for the category of
“Litigation.”
Adam is an award-winning trial and investigations lawyer with
decades of experience representing corporations, directors,
executives, special committees and financial institutions in high
stakes matters in the courtroom, in internal investigations and
before government enforcement agencies. In both 2023 and 2021,
The American Lawyer named Adam "Litigator of the
Year,” and Adam is the only U.S. lawyer recognized by
Chambers USA in the practices of Securities Litigation,
Antitrust Litigation and Financial Services Enforcement and
Investigations.
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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.
