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We are delighted to welcome back this year's alumni stream Avvoka, Enigio, Hunit, helping to increase tech adoption and ensure our lawyers get all the benefits of LegalTech at their desks. “Fuse remains the premier sandbox for LegalTech, globally. The feedback we receive from A&O Shearman lawyers immeasurably advances our software.” - Eliot Benzecrit, Founder of Avvoka. Hear more from Avvoka, and other Fuse alumni to learn why they wanted to be part of this year’s cohort: https://ow.ly/e3SF50Saz32 #FuseAOShearman #LegalTech #FuseCohort8

I am thrilled that this year, our client-nominated A&O Shearman Fuse Cohort is focused on digital assets. Being at the heart of an ecosystem where our lawyers, clients, and a hand-picked group of talented companies come together to learn and lead in this area is hugely exciting. Led by nominations from Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Citi, SC Ventures, ABN Amro, Deutsche Börse, Laser Digital and Richemont, the trailblazers shaping our digital assets stream are Ava Labs, BlockchainyourIP ClearToken, Digital Asset, FundsDLT, HQLAᵡ, KUMO, Oasis Pro, SWIAT, Zodia Markets. https://lnkd.in/d8gEQP4W If you want to know more about the companies paving the way, do get in touch. #FuseAOShearman #DigitalAssets #FuseCohort8

Fuse Cohort 8 sparks one-of-a-kind collaboration. A community of technology companies, clients and lawyers, Fuse offers a unique environment for clients to gain market insights into top-of-mind issues for them, where ambitious minds accelerate digital change. This year’s focus on digital assets will help clients to drive operational efficiencies and access new markets. We’ve included ten digital assets companies, each nominated by clients, and we’re building on our LegalTech foundations - six new companies beat 225 others to be selected to join this year’s cohort. We also welcome back three companies to our alumni stream. Meet the new cohort here: https://ow.ly/6rRe50RTMnC Committee members: David Griffin, BT Group; Russell Johnstone, BT Group, Oli Harris, Goldman Sachs; Christine Poli, Google Cloud, Hannah Seal, Index Ventures and Emmanuelle Brissaud, Meta. #FuseAOShearman #DigitalAssets #FuseCohort8

From San Francisco to Sydney - our people raise a toast to A&O Shearman.   #BelongExcel #Merger #AOShearman

The future isn’t something we respond to, it’s something we create right now.   Unparalleled outcomes start with A&O Shearman... and A&O Shearman starts today.   The future is here: https://ow.ly/acEC50Rt34K   #AOShearman

On the cover of the latest issue of Tax Notes Federal, partner Lorenz Haselberger co-authored “Holding Nothing Back: Everything We Know About Withholding on Derivatives.” The report examines the application of U.S. withholding taxes to cross-border financial derivatives, focusing on long-standing areas of uncertainty. Read the article here: https://lnkd.in/eFY5CuzG

From December 2022 to April 2024, USRowing engaged Shearman & Sterling to conduct an independent investigation on a pro bono basis. Today our report was released to the public. It is our hope that this report will be helpful to USRowing in determining what actions, if any, should be taken in response to these allegations, and that other potential victims of abuse within the rowing community will come forward, knowing that they are not alone and that USRowing will take any such allegations seriously. Read more: https://lnkd.in/exNRxdme. 

We advised J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Santander US Capital Markets LLC, as initial purchasers and dealer managers, in connection with Corporación Financiera de Desarrollo S.A.’s (COFIDE) offering of $300 million 5.950% Notes due 2029 and cash tender offer for any and all of its 5.250% Fixed-to-Floating Rate Subordinated Notes due 2029. The bond offering closed today and the cash tender offer is expected to expire on May 9, 2024. COFIDE plans to allocate an amount equal to the net proceeds from the bond offering to finance or refinance, in whole or in part, one or more new or existing eligible social projects pursuant to its Thematic Bond Framework. COFIDE is a state-owned development bank established in 1971 by the government of Peru, and a key participant in the government of Peru’s economic and social development programs. The #ShearmanLaw team was led by partner Alejandro A. Gordano alongside associate Gabriela Laufer and visiting attorney Moises Gonzalez Arroyo, as well as partner Lorenz Haselberger and associate Daniel Kachmar.  

On the eve of our historic merger with Allen & Overy to become A&O Shearman, the Shearman & Sterling International Arbitration team is pleased to not only have retained its GAR30 ranking, but to have climbed 10 places since the 2023 edition. The GAR ranking takes into account both the value and the volume of the work we carry out across the globe, in construction, energy, aviation and many other sectors. It is our privilege to advise some of the world's most sophisticated companies in relation to their most complex and intractable disputes, where billions are at stake and careful consideration must be given to commercial and political relationships.   The #ShearmanLaw International Arbitration team consists of partners Alex Bevan, David Hume, Emmanuel Jacomy, Christopher Ryan, Jesse Sherrett, Matthew Skinner, Edward M Taylor and Jennifer Younan.   As we prepare to combine two market leading arbitration teams as one, we are confident that the trust placed in us by our clients will continue to be reflected in our future recognition and rankings as A&O Shearman.   The full ranking can be viewed here: https://lnkd.in/eCxq5-Ue