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A&O Shearman LLP

  • Friday, 16 May, 2025
    Special ReportAsia-Pacific Innovative Lawyers
    Practice of law: case studies

    Featuring the most innovative services that lawyers have developed for clients

    Two women are passing next to graffiti about gender equality outside a women’s college in Kolkata, India
  • Wednesday, 30 April, 2025
    Due Diligence
    Big Law’s big merger test Premium content

    Plus, KKR on Europe and the drama gripping Italy’s banks

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  • Tuesday, 29 April, 2025
    News in-depth
    A&O Shearman wrestles with Trump and culture one year post-merger

    Twelve months after its transatlantic tie-up, the law firm found itself in the US president’s sights

    Adam Hakki, Khalid Garousha and Herve Ekue of A&O Shearman
  • Sunday, 6 April, 2025
    A&O Shearman unveils AI tool to speed up senior legal work

    Law firm’s model focuses on time-intensive work that requires input of senior associates or partners

    A glass window displays the words ‘One Bishop's Square A&O Shearman’
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    Special ReportInnovative Lawyers: Europe
    Business of law: best examples in legal work

    Law firms are changing how they manage their people and are reinventing their services and delivery models

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  • Sunday, 28 July, 2024
    News in-depthLegal services
    Dealmaking revival hands bumper profits to UK ‘magic circle’ law firms

    London’s legal elite post surge in profits despite growing threat from US rivals in the capital

  • Thursday, 11 July, 2024
    Allen & Overy partner pay reached £2.2mn before blockbuster merger

    ‘Magic circle’ firm posts 17% jump in profits in year before transatlantic tie-up

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  • Friday, 31 May, 2024
    Law
    A&O Shearman matches junior lawyer pay rises to £150,000

    ‘Magic circle’ law firm latest to wade into fresh war for talent

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  • Friday, 17 May, 2024
    Legal services
    Asia-Pacific Innovative Lawyers Awards 2024: the winners

    Awards highlights include: digital tools, deal making and the most innovative law firms and individuals

  • Friday, 17 May, 2024
    Legal services
    Business of law: case studies

    Examples of how firms are changing how they manage their own people and are reinventing their services and delivery models

    An young Asian man wearing casual clothes holding a digital tablet
  • Friday, 17 May, 2024
    Legal services
    Practice of law: case studies

    Featuring the most innovative services that lawyers have developed for clients

    An Asian college student is making a presentation in front of a projector screen
  • Friday, 17 May, 2024
    Legal services
    Practitioners: persuasion with a dash of comedy

    Whatever their area, practice lawyers who stand out for legal expertise have usually made a mark by challenging preconceived ideas and doing something a bit different

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  • Thursday, 21 December, 2023
    Allen & Overy rolls out AI contract negotiation tool in challenge to legal industry

    Law firm works with Microsoft and AI start-up Harvey in attempt to ‘disrupt the legal market before someone disrupts us’

    Allen & Overy offices in London, England
  • Tuesday, 5 December, 2023
    Legal services
    How big should a US law firm be? Plus: top 35 innovative firms

    Growth, the ideal size and generative AI are key questions for US law firm leaders

  • Thursday, 9 November, 2023
    Allen & Overy data hit by hackers in ransomware attack

    The London-headquartered law firm is the latest major corporate targeted by cyber criminals

    Allen & Overy offices in London
  • Monday, 30 October, 2023
    Allen & Overy sells legal tech unit to private equity groups

    UK law firm is latest business to take PE money to help expand non-core units

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  • Friday, 13 October, 2023
    Allen & Overy and Shearman partners vote through merger

    Tie-up between ‘magic circle’ law firm and US rival creates $3.5bn transatlantic law firm after 99% of votes cast in favour

    Entrance to Allen & Overy offices in London
  • Friday, 22 September, 2023
    Legal services
    Generative AI: a legal revolution is coming — eventually

    The new tech is not just a tool, it is a ‘game-changer’ for law firms. Plus: Pinsent Masons tops the FT 50 most innovative law firms in Europe

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  • Monday, 31 July, 2023
    Legal services
    Profits stall at London’s ‘magic circle’ law firms during US expansion

    Rising salary costs and decline in dealmaking hits earnings at City’s international law firms

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  • Thursday, 13 July, 2023
    Allen & Overy warns of headwinds as profits drop

    Fall comes as firm embarks on merger with New York’s Shearman & Sterling

    The London headquarters of Allen & Overy
  • Friday, 26 May, 2023
    News in-depthLegal services
    Wim Dejonghe: the Belgian rainmaker sealing A&O’s deal with Shearman

    The magic circle law firm’s senior partner has long held ambitions for a transatlantic merger

    Wim Dejonghe
  • Tuesday, 23 May, 2023
    News in-depthLegal services
    Allen & Overy closes in on American dream with $3.4bn Shearman deal

    Merger between US and UK firms would create a legal giant with almost 4,000 lawyers worldwide

    Montage of London and New York in the background with logos of Allen & Overy and Shearman & Sterling
  • Monday, 22 May, 2023
    LexMergers & Acquisitions
    Shearman/A&O: legal megamerger would be more huddle than cuddle Premium content

    The firms may need each other so much that they have to combine

    Allen & Overy’s building in Amsterdam
  • Sunday, 21 May, 2023
    Mergers & Acquisitions
    Allen & Overy and Shearman plan merger to create $3.4bn law firm

    Deal is first tie-up between a ‘magic circle’ group and an American rival in more than 20 years

    Allen & Overy’s headquarters in London
  • Friday, 5 May, 2023
    Legal services
    Practice of law: best practice in legal work

    Featuring examples of the most innovative services that lawyers have developed for clients

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