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.
Of Counsel Robert Mundheim (New York- Capital Markets) received The New School’s Honorary Degree of Doctor of Humane Letters
United States
Of Counsel Robert Mundheim (New York- Capital Markets)
received The New School's Honorary Degree of Doctor of Humane
Letters for his distinguished law career and extraordinary record
of service to the profession, education, and civic and cultural
life.
Robert has served in the U.S. Air Force and as General Counsel
in the U.S. Treasury Department where he played a substantial role
in negotiating the release of U.S. hostages in Iran in 1981. He
also served as Dean of the School of Law at the University of
Pennsylvania from 1982 to 1989.
As a refugee from Nazi Europe, Robert has felt a deep connection
to The New School's University in Exile – a safe haven
established for European scholars fleeing oppression. He has served
the university as a trustee and member of the Board of Governors of
The New School for Social Research for many years and continues to
make invaluable contributions to the institution.
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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.
