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 24 August 2018, the SEC announced that in fiscal year 2019
the fees that public companies and other issuers pay to register
their securities with the SEC will be set at $121.20 per million
dollars of securities registered.
Effective 1 October 2018, the Section 6(b) fee rate applicable
to the registration of securities, the Section 13(e) fee rate
applicable to the repurchase of securities and the Section 14(g)
fee rates applicable to proxy solicitations and statements in
corporate control transactions decreased from $124.50 per million
dollars to $121.20 per million dollars.
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