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
Jeremy Dickens (New York-Private Equity) recently contributed a
chapter titled "The Evolving Private Equity Market: Changing
Players and Concerns" to Inside the Minds—Understanding
Legal Trends in the Private Equity and Venture Capital Market,
published by Thomson Reuters/Aspatore.
The chapter takes a retrospective look at 2014 and discusses
projected private equity activity in 2015. In Dickens's view,
the increased activity in the private equity market witnessed in
2014 is likely to continue at an even greater level in 2015.
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