Shearman & Sterling is advising the German Government regarding legal matters related to the restructuring of the General Motors Group and Adam Opel GmbH respectively.

The Shearman & Sterling team is being led by Düsseldorf M&A partner Harald Selzner, co-head of the firm's global M&A practice group and also includes partners Rainer Wilke (Dusseldorf-Mergers & Acquisitions), Winfried Carli (Munich-European Finance), Markus Rieder (Munich-Mergers & Acquisitions) and Samuel A. Waxman (New York-Intellectual Property) as well as associates Sebastian Cohnen (Frankfurt-Mergers & Acquisitions), Axel Korth (Munich-European Finance), Lars Neumann (Munich-European Finance), Karen Park (New York-Bankruptcy & Reorganization), Kelly McDonald (New York-Bankruptcy & Reorganization), Gregory Papeika (New York-Bankruptcy & Reorganization), Joachim Grittmann (Frankfurt-Mergers & Acquisitions), Giuseppe Sferrazza (Dusseldorf-Mergers & Acquisitions), Carlos Robles y Zepf (Dusseldorf-Mergers & Acquisitions) and Christoph Neven (Dusseldorf-Mergers & Acquisitions).