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.
Jeremy Dickens (New York-Private Equity & Hedge Funds) was
recently profiled in Financier Worldwide's Private Equity
& Venture Capital Annual Review.
Among other topics, Dickens comments on trends in U.S. private
equity dealmaking during the past year, significant legal and
regulatory developments, and private equity fundraising in the
coming months. He is optimistic about the overall amount of capital
available to private equity sponsors in the near term and notes
that "with the increasing level of direct investment activity
by sovereign wealth funds, large pension plans and large family
offices ... the private equity industry continues to showcase its
ability to adapt ...."
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