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.