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Location: Market Square West Tower
AKA: Shearman & Sterling LLP
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Child Custody and Visitation
Social isolation measures have exacerbated child custody disputes, domestic abuse, care for children with unmet educational or other needs, and seniors confined or isolated as they shelter in place. Shearman & Sterling’s lawyers and business services professionals address family issues compounded by the pandemic by providing assistance to low-income individuals and the charities supporting them.
Adoption
Annulment
Ad hoc committee for the annulment of the $250 million award and in subsequent enforcement proceedings in multiple jurisdictions (including the United States, the United Kingdom and France) of the award.

Criminal Defense
Such challenging times demand litigation attorneys with the experience to counsel clients through difficult problems and the fortitude to bring a case to trial if that is the necessary course. Our lawyers have experience in a wide range of substantive areas including securities, criminal law enforcement, antitrust, commercial disputes, intellectual property and arbitration. We are trial-ready and trial-tested. Our litigation partners include several former prosecutors who have tried dozens of jury trials in United States courts. The Shearman & Sterling Litigation Group has regularly represented parties in major trials in state and federal courts. We are equally strong in the arbitration area, handling numerous contested proceedings every year.
Fraud
Securities: Investigations and enforcement proceedings brought by the U.S. Department of Justice and SEC, as well as financial regulators in Europe and Asia. Our experience includes matters relating to insider trading, false statements, market manipulation, market abuse and accounting fraud. Our related experience in private securities class actions ensures that we can cover all aspects of a securities problem.
White Collar Crimes
Partner Katherine Stoller has been named by the Euromoney Legal Media Group as a 2021 and 2022 “Rising Stars” in the white collar crime category.
Money Laundering
Shearman & Sterling provides a wide range of anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorist financing (CTF) services to global banks, securities broker-dealers, mutual funds, investment advisors, private equity funds, insurance companies, FinTech companies, and corporations throughout the world. We represent clients in compliance program design and implementation; law enforcement and regulatory investigations and internal investigations; and related civil and criminal litigation. Our roster includes lawyers who have had wide-ranging government experience, and leadership roles at leading financial institutions. Our team has the breadth and depth of experience to provide clients with the technical, strategic and practical assistance that they require, wherever and whenever issues arise.

Business and Corporate Law

Corporate Law
Our practice covers a wide range of financial regulatory reforms, day-to-day regulatory/compliance issues, transactional structures, trading and markets issues, regulatory investigations and enforcement proceedings. We have extensive experience advising on bank regulation, bank insolvency, recovery and resolution planning and corporate governance, bank capital markets transactions, including Dodd-Frank implementation, related rulemaking (such as the Volcker Rule), EU legislation (such as EMIR, MiFID II and CRD IV) and international initiatives.
Mergers and Acquisitions
Companies of all sizes, investors, private equity firms and investment banks rely on the significant experience of Shearman & Sterling’s Retail team — in mergers and acquisitions, capital-raising, corporate, tax and litigation matters
Business Disputes
Legal Media Group: Women in Business Law Asia Awards (2021); Recognized in IFLR Asia Future Leaders for Banking in South Korea by
Business Transactions
International arbitration has become one of the most popular methods of resolving disputes arising out of international business transactions. With respect to mining and natural resources, we have handled commercial arbitrations arising from construction projects, purchase and supply agreements and joint ventures as well as investment disputes on behalf of investors and states.
Construction Contracts
Our clients are some of the world’s largest owners and contractors, involved in some of the highest value, complex international projects, including in power (conventional, nuclear, hydroelectric and renewable), oil & gas facilities across the energy value chain, industrial plants, civil infrastructure, metals and mining and real estate development. Many of our projects and arbitrations involve bespoke EPC and other construction contracts, though we also have deep familiarity with all of the key industry standard documentation packages, such as FIDIC.
Trade Secrets
Intellectual Property
Shearman & Sterling’s intellectual property litigation group has the technical expertise to explain complex scientific concepts to judges and juries. The team includes attorneys with degrees in electrical engineering, physics (including one Ph.D.), computer science, chemical engineering, and industrial engineering. We have litigated cases relating to semiconductors, telecommunications equipment, automotive components, cell phones (including wireless communication standards), battery chemistry, medical devices and instruments, power tools and aerospace equipment.
Unfair Competition
A competitor’s false advertising can do more than rob a company of business; it can damage or even destroy a company’s brand. Shearman & Sterling’s advertising litigation team has vast experience helping clients protect their reputations and businesses against false advertising and unfair competition. We represent global and domestic clients from diverse industries in litigation under the Lanham Act and state law to stop false advertising and recover damages and unjust enrichment for the harm caused by unfair competition. Our life sciences clients include biopharmaceutical companies offering branded prescription drugs and biologics, medical device companies offering advanced diagnostic tools and personal protective equipment, and nutraceuticals companies offering medical foods, functional foods, and supplements, to name just a few. We also represent companies in the consumer product, food and beverage, agricultural, and financial services industries, as well as the manufacturing and high-tech sectors, among others. We have litigated and tried cases in federal courts throughout the United States, as well as in arbitrations and in proceedings before the Better Business Bureau’s National Advertising Division.
Antitrust
Law360 as a “Practice Group of the Year” in the Competition/Antitrust category. Winning practice groups are selected based on the breadth and significance of the matters highlighted and the complexity of the firm’s work during the past year. The antitrust practice was recognized for its work on a variety of matters, including: 1-800 Contacts on its important victory in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, against the Federal Trade Commission (FTC); JetBlue in obtaining voluntarily dismissal with prejudice of antitrust litigation lawsuit brought by an online travel agent, in New York federal court; SS&C Technologies, leading fintech software company in in two major litigation matters; and ViacomCBS on its definitive agreement to sell its publishing business Simon & Schuster to Penguin Random House.

Employment Litigation
We have an integrated group of international lawyers with a high level of experience in U.S. and European investigations, criminal and administrative antitrust enforcement, white collar defense and counseling, and civil litigation. We regularly advise on all cartel-related issues, including grand jury investigations; U.S. DOJ prosecutions and plea agreements; U.S. class action proceedings; EU and national administrative enforcement proceedings; “dawn raids” by the European Commission and national agencies; antitrust litigation before European national courts; leniency advice and applications; securities and stock exchange disclosures; labor and employment issues; U.S. government contracting debarment actions; national criminal investigations; and appellate proceedings.

Real Estate Litigation
Construction Litigation
Our construction arbitration lawyers, drawn from the firm’s market leading International Arbitration practice, work with clients from early dispute management and avoidance, to conducting the advocacy at the arbitration hearings. Members of our team also sit as arbitrators in engineering and construction disputes.
Real Estate Transactions
Partnering alongside institutional investors, developers, owners, lenders and underwriters, our cross-functional team has led some of the most challenging and complex real estate transactions across the globe. Regardless of where our clients are located, we find innovative ways to help them achieve their strategic objectives. And in doing so, we help maneuver the political, regulatory, economic and technological challenges our clients may face.

Immigration Law

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Trusts and Estates

Estate Planning
Shearman & Sterling’s multidisciplinary team of family office lawyers deeply understands the complexities and the challenges – legal, business and personal – involved in family ownership. We are experienced in advising single- and multi-family offices, private clients and family-run businesses on all of their legal, tax, regulatory, compliance, trusts and estates, and business needs across the globe.
Wills
We also work with principal trade organizations on comment letters, such as the proposed regulations related to living wills and the Orderly Liquidation Authority and the Financial Stability Board’s proposal on key attributes of effective resolution regimes.
Trusts
We provide guidance to families and their investment teams as they navigate decisions related to their investment portfolios, domestic and international estate and tax planning, wealth management, philanthropy, family governance, trust administration and multi-generational issues. Serving as trusted advisors to our clients, we offer a highly responsive and comprehensive service that helps enterprising families navigate the new economy and achieve multigenerational success.

Bankruptcy
Citibank, N.A. | in its capacity as administrative agent and lender under a revolving credit agreement in connection with the chapter 11 bankruptcy cases of Valaris plc and certain of its subsidiaries, including in intercreditor litigation in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas.
Foreclosure
Cosmopolitan Resort and Casino | representation of one of the world’s largest banks in the workout and consummation of a mortgage foreclosure on the $3.9 billion Cosmopolitan Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. Industry sources referred to this matter as the largest commercial loan foreclosure in the U.S.
Tax Law
Working with our clients across the sector, Shearman & Sterling's global, multidisciplinary team has deep knowledge and experience in advising the funds and investors which comprise the private capital industry. Our integrated global platform is uniquely positioned to assist our clients with formation, compliance, transactional, regulatory and tax matters worldwide, including complex cross-border matters.

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