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.
Attorneys from Shearman & Sterling's New York, London and Paris Capital Markets and Mergers & Acquisitions practices have contributed to Global Legal Insights: Initial Public Offerings Laws and Regulations 2019.
Attorneys from Shearman & Sterling's New York, London
and Paris Capital Markets and Mergers & Acquisitions practices
have contributed to Global Legal Insights: Initial Public
Offerings Laws and Regulations 2019. The guide covers common
issues in initial public offerings, including the IPO process,
regulatory architecture, public company responsibilities, potential
risks, liabilities and pitfalls in 27 jurisdictions, featuring
different authors for each jurisdiction.
Partners Harald Halbhuber and Ilir Mujalovic (both New
York-Capital Markets) and associate Ana Aur (Toronto-Capital
Markets) contributed a chapter on the regulatory framework and
capital markets process for IPOs in the U.S. Harald and Ilir also
acted as contributing editors and penned the preface for the
book.
Partner Hervé Letréguilly, counsel Séverine
de La Courtie and associates Amandine Souin and (all Paris-Capital
Markets) wrote the chapter on France.
Partner Pawel Szaja (London-Capital Markets), counsel Michael
Scargill and associate Brian Butterwick (both London-Mergers &
Acquisitions) authored the chapter on the U.K.
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