A&O Shearman was formed in 2024 via the merger of two historic firms, Allen & Overy and Shearman & Sterling and has nearly 4,000 lawyers globally.

Highlights

The firm has a strong practice across the rankings in the UK achieving tier 1 status in multiple sectors including in M&A, financial services regulatory, project development and multiple capital markets among others. Within these areas one particular area of focus is on capital markets transactions which is corroborated by the volume of feedback they received in these areas.

Testimonials

Bank lending: Borrower side

“Professional, customer orientated and knowledgeable people.”

Capital markets: Debt

They are client oriented and always have innovative solutions to the questions raised by our team

“Their technical expertise, knowledge of the client and how we like to interact; availability of the partner in charge; responsiveness.”

“The team we work with, headed by Theo Trayhurn, has a high level understanding of the market with a helicopter view of what players in the market are doing and future trends. Theo and his team have a very good commercial sense and work pragmatically to find solutions, also across various jurisdictions. They work really well together as a team. The lawyers communicate well, are incredibly responsive, and absolute top professionals.”

“A&O service is top notch (from response time to user experience and understanding the various needs to make everything easy to understand).”

Capital markets: Structured finance and securitisation

“Excellent technical and product knowledge.  Close market intelligence and commercial approach.”

“Excellent technical knowledge and insight into the market.  A deep bench with true industry experts.”

“Ease of dealing with them.  Knowledge of and good relationship with partner contacts.”

“As this product is highly structured, the client often has bespoke requests. A&O are able to provide commercial solutions to the client's bespoke requests.”

“Always very rounded, commercial advice with elevated attention to detail, even on repeat transactions. Partners are available and plugged into all layers of a transaction, at appropriate levels. Full suite of advice available at short notice.”

Sirae Chen

“Relationship management, expertise, precision work, achieving deadlines.”

Jamie Durham

“Jamie is a skilled practitioner and is very approachable.”

Daniel, Hill, Industry knowledge, relationship management, knowledge of our buisness.

Lachlan Hopwood

“Quick response and is very thorough in his work (taking off the load and when needed make a very good explanation of what's need to be done).”

Tanya O'Hagan

“Tanya is top class.  Always available to chat, great technical and industry knowledge.  Excellent pragmatic, commercial approach.”

“Excellent market knowledge and always happy to share insights.”

“Tanya is very hands on and is able to provide commercial solutions in response to the requirements of our clients. She is also very friendly and easy to deal with.”

Sally Onions

“Industry knowledge, client relationship, knowledge of our business.”

“Her sector knowledge is stand-out excellent. You can cold call her and ask her anything securitisation related and she'll not just know the answer but know most recent developments/potential changes as well. She's approachable, organised and very commercial too.”

Niels de Ru

“Organizing a great team, understand questions and requirements client and translates that into solutions.”

Amanda Thomas

“In Amanda's role as Head of International Capital Markets Know-How & Training, she interacts with Theo and feeds her suggestions to him to be implemented in our projects. She is incredibly easy to work with.”

Key clients

Key clients of the firm include CAB Payments, Noventiq, Kerogen Capital, Irish Department of Finance, Roads Transport Authority, Danske Bank, Nordea, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan and Deutsche Bank.