• Shearman & Sterling has a long and distinguished history of supporting its clients wherever they do business, from major financial centers to emerging and growth markets, for nearly 150 years. The firm’s global presence and deep understanding of its clients' businesses and the industries they operate in, drives the firm’s work to provide outstanding legal service and commercial advice.
• As a global, elite law firm, Shearman & Sterling represents many of the world’s leading corporations and major financial institutions, as well as emerging growth companies, governments and state-owned enterprises, on ground-breaking, precedent-setting matters.
• The firm leverages the use of smart technology in all of its client work through its innovative data management system, Shearman Analytics, which provides a leading edge in staffing matters leanly and effectively. In addition to driving value for clients, the data system also provides powerful predictive insights to help clients achieve their business goals.
• In all matters, Shearman & Sterling is dedicated to serving clients at the highest level. The firm’s lawyers are true business partners to their clients and pride themselves on forming long-standing working relationships, while navigating shifting regulations and market developments, to help clients succeed.

• Banking
• Capital markets: Debt
• Capital markets: Derivatives
• Capital markets: Equity
• Capital markets: High yield
• Financial restructuring
• Financial services regulatory
• Hedge funds
• Investment funds
• M&A
• PPP/PFI
• Private equity
• Private equity funds
• Project bonds
• Project development
• Project finance
• Real estate finance
• Real estate funds
• Restructuring and insolvency
• Securitisation
• Structured finance/securitisation

• Capital Markets: As capital markets have developed and diversified, the firm has helped its clients navigate these important changes and take advantage of opportunities. Over the years, Shearman & Sterling lawyers have had a prominent role in many of the developments that have transformed the capital markets, most notably the growth of the high yield market, the globalization of capital markets and the increase in worldwide privatizations.
• Derivatives & Structured Products: The firm’s practice is widely recognized for representing the full spectrum of market participants across the complete range of derivatives products and asset classes. It is the breadth of our client base, the depth of our product experience and our true cross‐border capabilities that distinguish our practice from others in the market. With significant high-end capabilities in both the United States and the United Kingdom, we advise clients on the full range of structural, legal and documentation considerations that arise in derivatives and structured product transactions across all major asset classes, including credit, equity, fixed-income, currency and commodity-linked instruments.
• Emerging Growth: From the back-of-the-envelope to the opening bell, Shearman & Sterling provides strategic advice for each stage of growth. For a promising idea to grow into a successful company, entrepreneurs need insightful, business-minded counsel that can keep up with the pace of innovation. Collaborating side-by-side, we know our clients’ businesses. Our lawyers provide tailored, cutting-edge solutions to emerging growth challenges, working with our clients as their needs change over time across Capital Markets, Mergers & Acquisitions, Intellectual Property, Litigation, Compensation, Governance & ERISA and other complex areas.
• Finance: The firm’s finance practice helps companies and lenders successfully navigate all aspects of the bank financing process and obtain the best possible outcomes. We routinely handle cross-border financings and provide comprehensive advice to clients who need both bank and bond financings by creating tailored solutions to address particular financing needs, whether asset-based, leveraged or investment-grade. We work closely with our capital markets lawyers, particularly those focused on the high yield market, and have a long tradition of using a variety of securitization structures.
• Financial Institutions Advisory & Financial Regulatory: Shearman & Sterling’s market-leading financial regulatory practice serves our clients' businesses around the world. This focus on regulatory activity across geographies and the excellence of our U.S., U.K. and European practices in particular, make us the international counsel of choice for clients with difficult regulatory challenges in their home jurisdictions that are also seeking to meet global best practices. Backed by clear technical advice and strong relationships with regulators, we advise clients on the laws and regulations of the world’s key financial and commercial centers.
• Financial Restructuring & Insolvency: Shearman & Sterling’s Financial Restructuring & Insolvency practice represents stakeholders across the full spectrum of restructuring matters. Our global team has a wealth of experience advising on complex domestic and cross-border restructurings, including some of the most high-profile transactions of recent years. We combine a commercial approach with technical expertise and work in partnership with our clients to navigate the legal, political and business landscapes in which they operate. We work closely with other practice groups, leveraging expertise across products, sectors and industries to provide innovative and effective advice.
• Investment Funds: The firm’s full-service investment funds team is led by lawyers based in New York, London, Hong Kong, Beijing and Tokyo, with support from a global network of offices. By combining our multidisciplinary knowledge with a globally integrated approach, we provide a comprehensive range of investment funds services to clients on a worldwide basis. We have extensive experience assisting fund sponsors and investors across the Americas, Asia, Europe and Africa in finding innovative solutions to the challenges they face. We are skilled at reconciling complex regulatory and tax regimes with the competing requirements of fund sponsors, their investment strategies and their target investors.
• Mergers & Acquisitions: With M&A lawyers on the ground across the Americas, Europe, Asia and the Middle East, our team advises both principals and their financial advisors on the full spectrum of domestic and cross-border public and private mergers and acquisitions deals, whether negotiated or unsolicited. Clients rely on our team to guide them through transactions that will ultimately transform their organizations. Corporations and financial sponsors trust that we understand their business needs and will offer pragmatic and solutions-oriented advice, negotiate aggressively on their behalf and provide focused execution throughout each deal.
• Project Development & Finance: Shearman & Sterling has a market-leading project development and finance practice. The team has played a leading role at every stage in the procurement, structuring, development, financing, operations purchase and sale of major infrastructure projects globally, including oil and gas (upstream, pipelines, LNG, refineries and petrochemicals), mining and metals, transportation (rail, roads, airports and bridges), thermal, nuclear and renewable (including wind, solar, geothermal and hydro) power, and power infrastructure (including transmission). Clients rely on us to help them achieve their most ambitious goals. Many of these projects are unique, innovative or first-of-their-kind.
• Public International Law: Public international law is increasingly becoming a significant feature in international commerce. Issues that traditionally arose in the context of State-to-State relations, are now raised in the context of international commercial and investment disputes. They may concern, for example, natural resource development, infrastructure programs or project financing. Our practice includes both advisory and advocacy work on all aspects of public international law.
• Real Estate: The firm’s real estate practice assists clients in achieving their strategic goals around the world, partnering with private and institutional investors, developers, owners, lenders and underwriters in real estate joint ventures, financings, development projects, leasing, and acquisitions and dispositions. Our clients value our breadth and depth of experience in regional, national and international markets and through decades of market cycles. Regardless of where our clients are located across the globe, we find innovative ways for them to achieve their objectives.
• Special Situations & Capital Solutions: Shearman & Sterling’s special situations and capital solutions team of partners works across practice groups to develop innovative solutions to capital structure and other complex problems. Each member of our interdisciplinary team—including Capital Markets, Leveraged Finance and Direct Lending, Restructuring, Litigation, Mergers & Acquisitions and Tax—has the experience to address the issues that arise in this unique context and spends a substantial amount of their time working with many of the world’s leading hedge funds, private equity funds, direct lenders, CLOs and other institutional investors.

• Banking
• Construction and materials
• Consumer goods and services
• Energy
• Financial services
• Gaming
• Healthcare
• Industrials
• Investment management
• Media
• Mining
• Natural resources
• Oil and gas
• Pharm and life sciences
• Real estate
• Shipping
• Social infrastructure
• Tech and telecoms
• Utilities

Austin
300 West 6th Street
22nd Floor
Austin, Texas 78701
United States
+1.512.647.1900

Beijing
Unit 3209
China Central Place Tower 2
79 Jianguo Road, Chaoyang District
Beijing, 100025
China
+86 10 5922 8000

Brussels
Rue Guimard 9
1040 Brussels
Belgium
+32 2 500 9800
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Dallas
2828 North Harwood Street
18th Floor
Dallas, Texas 75201
+1.214.271.5777

Frankfurt
Bockenheimer Landstrasse 2-4
60306 Frankfurt am Main
Germany
+49 69 9711 1000
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Hong Kong
21st Floor, Gloucester Tower
The Landmark
15 Queen's Road Central
Hong Kong, China
+852 2978 8000
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Houston
Bank of America Tower
800 Capitol Street, Suite 2200
Houston, Texas 77002
USA
+1.713.354.4900

London
Broadgate Quarter
9 Appold Street
London
EC2A 2AP
+44 20 7655 5000
www.shearman.com/en/offices/london

Melville
Two Huntington Quadrangle
4th Floor North
Melville, NY 11747

Menlo Park
1460 El Camino Real
2nd Floor
Menlo Park, CA 94025
USA
1.650.838.3600

Paris Office
7, rue Jacques Bingen
Paris
75017
France
+331 53 89 70 00
www.shearman.com/en/offices/paris

San Francisco
535 Mission Street
25th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105
USA
1.415.616.1100

São Paulo
Avenida Brigadeiro Faria Lima, 3400, Floor 17
São Paulo – SP, 04538-132
Brazil
+55.11.3702.2200

Seoul
16F. Tower A, Centropolis
26, Ujeongguk-ro, Jongno-gu
Seoul, 03161
South Korea
+82.2.6320.7800

Shanghai
Jing'An Kerry Center I
2501-2502
1515 Nanjing Road West
Shanghai, 200040
China
www.shearman.com/en/offices/shanghai

Singapore
6 Battery Road #25-03
Singapore, 049909
Singapore
+65 6230 3800
www.shearman.com/en/offices/singapore

Tokyo
Fukoku Seimei Building, 9th Floor
2-2-2 Uchisaiwaicho
Chiyoda-ku
Tokyo, 100-0011
Japan
03 5251 1601
www.shearman.com/en/offices/tokyo

Toronto
199 Bay Street
Commerce Court West
Suite 4405
Toronto, Ontario M5L 1E8
Canada
1.416.360.8484

Abu Dhabi
Etihad Towers
21st Floor, Office Tower 3
Corniche Road
Abu Dhabi, P.O. Box 2948
UAE
+971 2 410 8100
www.shearman.com/regions/middle-east

Washington DC
401 9th Street, NW
Suite 800
Washington, DC 20004
+1.202.508.8000