North America - United States • Tax
A&O Shearman
A&O Shearman’s non-contentious tax offering has a particularly strong reputation for advising multinational companies on cross-border M&A and financial offerings. The team also has considerable experience representing private equity clients and sovereign wealth funds, including China Investment Corporation, in relation to the acquisition and tax-efficient structuring of portfolio companies. Larry Crouch, dividing his time between the firm’s New York and Menlo Park offices, leads the practice. His broad experience covers M&A, capital markets, and joint venture transactions, particularly those involving private equity sellers and buyers. Washington DC’s Todd Lowther offers expertise handling private equity funds and petroleum industry taxation issues. Ryan Bray in Dallas regularly advises emerging growth companies and their founders on choice-of-entity decisions, while New York’s Derek Kershaw handles M&A, private equity and hedge fund investments and structuring, and REITs transactions, among other matters.
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Testimonials
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‘The tax lawyers at Shearman & Sterling with whom I work are outstanding in every respect. They are extremely responsive to my questions, ask great questions, keep me posted on their progress if there is the potential for not meeting a deadline, exhibit their expertise in all of their work product provided to me, are very easy to work with and come up with creative ideas to solve issues.’
‘I work mostly with Ryan Bray and Lorenz Haselberger, and both of them continuously display the outstanding characteristics I described above. ’
‘Very deep technical and industry expertise with practical approaches to solving business issues.'
‘Team is extremely responsive and professional.'
Key clients
- SAP SE
- Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.
- CVS Health and CVS Pharmacy
- JetBlue Airways Corporation
- Mubadala Investment Company
- Azul S.A.
- Paramount Global
- J.F. Lehman & Company LLC
- Carbon Engineering Ltd.
- Chesapeake Utilities Corporation
- Flatrock Energy Advisors, LLC
- Worldwide Acquisition Corp.
- Boston Scientific Corporation
- DT Midstream, Inc.
- Celanese Corporation
- Investcorp
- Flat Creek Holdings, LLC
- Frontier Midstream Solutions IV, LLC
- Glatfelter Corporation
- Dycom Industries, Inc.
- Fenway Sports Group
Work highlights
- Advised SAP SE in connection with the pending sale of Nasdaq-listed Qualtrics International Inc to Silver Lake Management and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board in an all-cash transaction valued at $18.15 per share, which corresponds to an equity value of approximately $12.5 billion.
- Advised Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. in its acquisition of Black Knight for an aggregate value of the consideration of approximately $11.9 billion.
- Advised CVS Health in a definitive agreement to acquire Oak Street Health in an all-cash transaction valued at $39 per share, representing an enterprise value of approximately $10.6 billion.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Larry Crouch