To accommodate the considerable expansion of the Antitrust practice earlier this year with the addition of the core group of Howrey’s highly successful Brussels office, Shearman & Sterling is moving into the Winterthur building between the Brussels European Quarter and the Royal Palace.

In March 2011, Shearman & Sterling hired a team of 4 partners and 13 associates from Howrey’s Brussels office, including former practice co-chair Trevor Soames and Stephen Mavroghenis, who currently co-leads the global practice with New York partner Beau Buffier.

The reinforcement of the Antitrust Group in Europe has made Shearman & Sterling one of the leading specialist antitrust practices, dealing with all aspects of EU and national competition law. Shearman & Sterling's Antitrust Group in Europe assists clients with their most critical and complex antitrust matters, from merger control and joint ventures, antitrust litigation, cartel investigations, antitrust compliance and State aid issues, as well as counseling on day-to-day competition law issues. Current clients include American Airlines, Barclays, CAE, Hilton, IATA, ICE, Merck, NASDAQ OMX, Nestlé, Nokia, Qualcomm, Viacom and Sony.

Shearman & Sterling’s Antitrust Group is widely recognized as one of the most sophisticated competition law practices in the world. With more than 60 lawyers, including 16 partners and one consultant, located in Brussels, Düsseldorf, London, New York, San Francisco and Washington, DC, the global Antitrust Group offers clients seamless legal advice in today’s borderless landscape.