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.
Partner Kris Ferranti moderated a discussion with fellow lawyers from Shearman & Sterling's Real Estate, Tax, Financial Restructuring & Insolvency and Environmental practices about the opportunities
within Insolvency/Bankruptcy/Re-Structuring, Consumer Protection and Insurance topic(s)
Partner Kris Ferranti moderated a discussion with fellow lawyers
from Shearman & Sterling's Real Estate, Tax, Financial
Restructuring & Insolvency and Environmental practices about
the opportunities that exist for investors in distressed commercial
real estate assets and the legal issues and considerations they
must keep in mind.
The lawyers who joined Kris in this timely conversation are
partners Malcolm Montgomery, Lisa Brill and John Opar, counsel
Michael Pettingill and Jocelyn Redman and associates Jonathan
Newman, Eric Felcher, Horton McKinney and Helen Quigley from the
firm's Real Estate practice; partner Michael Shulman and
counsel Derek Kershaw from the Tax practice; partner Ned Schodek
from the Financial Restructuring & Insolvency practice and
counsel Jason Pratt and Mehran Massih of the Environmental
practice.
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