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.
On 27 July 2017, the Pre-Emption Group issued a statement confirming that it does not intend to change the pre-emption thresholds set out in the 2015 Statement of Principles.
On 27 July 2017, the Pre-Emption Group issued a statement
confirming that it does not intend to change the pre-emption
thresholds set out in the 2015 Statement of Principles.
The current pre-emption thresholds allow for two resolutions for
disapplication authority – the first five per cent for
general corporate purposes and, when applied for, the second five
per cent for use only in connection with an acquisition or
specified capital investment. No change to the flexibility
permitted by the guidelines is expected as a consequence of the new
Prospectus Regulation.
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