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Magic circle duo win roles on €8bn loan agreement
Allen & Overy (A&O) and Linklaters have won roles relating to German car part manufacturer Schaeffler’s new €8bn (£6.6bn) credit agreement. A&O is advising the company on the loan as well as a €2bn (£1.7bn) high-yield bond programme, which ...
10 Feb 2012 | 00:00
GDF Suez appoints firms to first global legal panel
GDF Suez has appointed a trio of firms to its inaugural global legal panel in the wake of its £5bn reverse takeover of electricity generator International Power last summer. Linklaters and French leader Bredin Prat, both longstanding advisers to G...
20 Jan 2012 | 00:00 | 
Shearman seals hire of Ashurst energy partner for London office
Shearman & Sterling is set to bulk up its London projects practice with the hire of Ashurst energy partner John Inglis. Inglis, who joined Ashurst from Norton Rose in 2007, is a member of the firm's energy transport & infrastructure team in London,...
10 Jan 2012 | 17:11 |
Shearman's MacRitchie set for GC role at UK Green Investments
Shearman & Sterling London-based project finance partner Kenneth MacRitchie is set to leave the firm at the end of this month to join UK Green Investments as general counsel. MacRitchie, who was a partner in Shearman's London office for 15 years, focu...
22 Dec 2011 | 15:19 |
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Soc Gen names new panel with dozen firms winning places
Societe Generale has concluded a review of its global panel, with firms including Allen & Overy and Herbert Smith appointed. The roster, which will take effect in the New Year (1 January), also sees UK firms Clifford Chance, Hogan Lovells, Norton Ros...
16 Dec 2011 | 15:36 |
Shearman adds four to City partnership in annual promotion round
Shearman & Sterling has become the latest US firm to announce its global partner promotions, with nearly half of new partners joining in the firm's City office. Thomas Donegan is joining the global financial regulatory practice area in London, while P...
15 Dec 2011 | 12:52 |
Shearman reveals London diversity stats, with women making up 20% of partnership
Shearman & Sterling has become the first US firm in London to publish diversity statistics ahead of a controversial requirement from the Legal Services Board (LSB) that will make such reporting compulsory from December 2012.
30 Nov 2011 | 12:07 |
Shearman and Clifford Chance advise on $5.4bn Chilean copper deal
Clifford Chance (CC) and Shearman and Sterling have advised as London mining giant Anglo American agreed to sell a share of its Chilean copper business to Mitsubishi for $5.39bn (£3.38bn).
11 Nov 2011 | 12:24 |
Nabarro, Freshfields win roles as Daimler appoints legal panel and names new GC
Shearman & Sterling, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, Nabarro and Willkie Farr & Gallagher have all won roles on German car company Daimler’s inaugural legal panel. The mandates will see the firms advise the comp...
27 Oct 2011 | 00:00 |
US firms in London to join diversity initiative; more UK firms get on board
PRIME, the ground-breaking social mobility initiative launched by 23 major law firms earlier this month, looks set to be expanded to include the London offices of several leading US firms, with White & Case and Shearman & Sterling among those lining u...
22 Sep 2011 | 00:00 |
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US tech leader Wilson Sonsini to open first European base in Brussels
US firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is set to make its European debut in Brussels after recruiting a team of lawyers from Hunton & Williams and Shearman & Sterling. The firm, which currently has eight bases in the US and two in China, is set t...
20 Sep 2011 | 11:27 |
Latham and Shearman win roles on €600m sports agency buyout
Latham & Watkins and Shearman & Sterling have taken lead roles on Bridgepoint Capital’s €600m (£527m) acquisition of Infront Sports & Media, a Swiss agency that sells media rights for seven national football federations. Infront instructed US ...
15 Sep 2011 | 00:00 |
Slaughters leads alongside US firms on £1.5bn transatlantic takeover bid
Slaughter and May and a number of US firms have won roles on US manufacturing company Colfax Corporation's £1.5bn takeover bid for UK engineering group Charter International. Slaughters has taken the lead role for Charter on the deal, which is con...
13 Sep 2011 | 10:09 |
Macfarlanes signs up Shearman partner to lead real estate practice
Macfarlanes has recruited a new head of real estate with the hire of a senior partner from US firm Shearman & Sterling. Ian Nisse will join Macfarlanes at the end of the month after seven years as a partner at Shearman, where he was international c...
09 Sep 2011 | 09:42 |
Shearman and White & Case act on $20bn Saudi petrochemical project
Shearman & Sterling and White & Case have taken lead roles on a $20bn (£12.3bn) joint venture (JV) that will see Dow Chemical and Saudi Arabia’s Aramco build a petrochemical complex in the Saudi city of Jubail. US law firm Shearman has taken the...
04 Aug 2011 | 00:00 |
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