A&O Shearman > Global (2024)

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Avv. Andrea De Pieri is a partner in the Corporate Group of the Milan office. Mr. De Pieri focuses primarily on assisting corporate clients, investment banks and private equity funds in both public and private mergers, acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, sales and joint ventures as well as corporate finance and real estate transactions.

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Global Head of Corporate and a partner in the Derivatives & Structured Products practice

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Global Co-Head of International DCM, Derivatives & Securitization and Financial Institutions Sector Lead

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Avv. Trucco is apartner in Shearman & Sterling’s Capital Markets and M&A Groups who has considerable experience in Italian and U.S. transactions including public and private mergers and acquisitions, private equity and capital markets transactions.

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Gemma is an experienced patent specialist with a focus on advising clients in the chemical and life sciences sector in relation to patent disputes and strategy. She has experience before the English Patent Courts and in the worldwide coordination of patent portfolios.Gemma is an experienced and trusted advisor for some of the world’s leading life sciences and chemical companies. She has more than ten years’ experience advising clients in patent litigation matters before the English Courts and providing strategic advice in relation to complex, multi-jurisdictional patent portfolios. He advice is technically excellent but also takes into account the wider commercial implications. Gemma’s focus is on the life sciences and chemical sectors and her 1st in biochemistry provides her with a sound understanding of such disputes. Her experience involves small molecule pharmaceuticals, molecular diagnostics, biologics, antibodies, antibody technology and industrial chemical processes. Gemma has experience of litigating patents before the English Courts (including obtaining preliminary injunctions) and extensive experience of cross-border litigation within Europe and elsewhere in the world, including India and China. Gemma also coordinates worldwide litigation, working closely with multi-disciplinary teams in the defence and enforcement of patent portfolios. Gemma has developed innovative and successful strategies, often combining patent and regulatory law, to assist pharmaceutical companies in the enforcement of their rights. Gemma has considerable experience in domestic and international arbitrations (including ad hoc arbitration and before the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce). Gemma specialises in arbitration involving technical subject matter and many of her arbitration cases involve very substantial damages claims. Gemma is an experienced presenter and panel member. She is a co-editor of the EPO reports Bristows produces for the CIPA Journal, co-authored the UK chapter of AIPLA’s International Patent Litigation guide and writes on UK and EPO case law for a number of IP blogs.

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Igor Gorchakov is a partner in Banking and Dispute Resolution practices. He is an experienced and versatile Russian lawyer specialising in banking and dispute resolution, including domestic and cross-border litigations and arbitrations. His wide ranging banking and finance expertise includes general lending, syndicated lending, project finance, real estate finance, securitisation, derivatives and bank regulation. Igor also practises in the areas of international capital markets and M&A.

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Mei Lianis a partner in the Financial Restructuring practice, based in London. She has a broad and extensive practice with years of experience across a wide spectrum of high-end finance transactions, which often involve cross-border features.Ms. Lian focuses her practice on representing institutional investors, as well as corporate borrowers, issuers, private equity funds and sponsors on a wide range of finance transactions. She has particular expertise navigating complex stressed and distressed situations, advising across the entire capital structure, and utilizing various finance instruments. Ms. Lian also represents hedge funds and alternative credit providers in connection with bespoke financing transactions and distressed and restructuring investment opportunities.

Merritt Johnson is a partner in Shearman & Sterling’s Capital Markets practice. He focuses on high-yield and investment grade debt offerings, initial public offerings, secondary equity offerings, leveraged buy-outs and liability management transactions. Merritt has worked on transactions in a wide range of industries, including cannabis, healthcare, mining and metals, oil and gas, media and telecommunications, consumer retail products, technology and general industrials. He represents financial institution clients, including Morgan Stanley, Jefferies, and Goldman Sachs, and corporate issuers. Merritt’s recent representations include advising on the initial public offerings and U.S. listings of Sundial Growers and Landcadia Holdings II; an offering of common stock of Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation by General Electric Company; investment-grade notes offerings by Williams Companies, American Tower Corporation, Kansas City Southern, McCormick & Company, Steel Dynamics, and S&P Global; high-yield bond offerings by Jefferies Finance, LPL Financial Holdings, FXI Holdings, Sensata Technologies and SS&C Technologies; a PIPE transaction by Neptune Solutions; and a direct lending transaction for sponsor BC Partners Advisors.

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Sergey Blinov is a counsel in Banking practice. He is an all-round finance lawyer with substantial experience in a broad range of banking and finance transactions, covering trade finance, export credit finance, project finance, acquisition finance, subordinated loans, syndicated lending, restructurings (both consensual and contentious), and debt capital markets transactions. He has also advised various financial institutions on major insolvency proceedings and related litigation.

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Europe and Middle East Regional Managing Partner

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