Practice
Robert Treuhold is a partner in Shearman & Sterling’s Capital Markets and Mergers & Acquisitions Groups. He focuses primarily on U.S. and international capital markets, corporate and financial transactions. Mr. Treuhold has extensive experience in initial public offerings and other equity offerings, investment grade debt and convertible bond offerings, privatizations, international joint ventures and mergers and acquisitions. He joined the firm in New York in 1984 and has also practiced in the firm’s Paris, London and Abu Dhabi offices. He has served as Managing Partner of the Paris office and as the firm’s worldwide Managing Partner.

Mr. Treuhold is cited as a “leading capital markets lawyer” in the IFLR1000 - Guide to the World’s Leading Capital Markets Lawyers published by Euromoney Publications LLC, in the Chambers Global – Guide to the World’s Leading Lawyers for Business, published by Chambers & Partners as well as in The Best Lawyers guide.

• BNP Paribas, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, RBS Securities Inc. and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC as joint bookrunning managers in connection with a US$2 billion 33 Act registered shelf takedown of investment grade notes and debentures by Time Warner Inc.
• Quest Diagnostics Incorporated in connection with its US$1.25 billion registered shelf takedown of investment grade senior notes and floating rate senior notes
• Banc of America Securities LLC and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC as joint bookrunning managers in connection with the registered shelf registration and takedown of $300 million of investment grade notes by Sigma-Aldrich Corporation
• Eton Park Fund, L.P. as purchaser from Repsol SA in connection with an offering of YPF SA American Depositary Shares
• Numerous privatizations including: Air France, Crédit Lyonnais, EDF, ENEL, France Télécom, Pechiney, Rhône-Poulenc, Snecma, Thomson and Usinor
• Initial public offerings, issuance of bonds, convertible bonds, private placements and financings U.S. and European companies

• STMicroelectronics in connection with the sale by Areva of its 10.9% stake in the company to the Fonds Strategique d'Investissement (FSI) and the sale by Cassa di depositi e prestiti (CDP) of its 13.7% stake in the company to the Italian State
• Deutsche Bank and Lazard as financial advisors to Honeywell International and as presenting banks in connection with the acquisition by Honeywell of all the shares of Sperian Protection
• Atos Origin in the reorganization of the activities of its joint venture with NYSE Euronext, Atos Euronext Market Solutions (AEMS)
• Lazard and Merrill Lynch as financial advisors to Gaz de France (GDF) in connection with its merger with SUEZ
• STMicroelectronics in connection with the creation of Numonyx, a semiconductor joint venture with Intel Corporation and Francisco Partners focusing on flash memory solutions
• IXIS Corporate & Investment Bank, a subsidiary of Groupe Caisse d’Epargne, in its acquisition of an interest in Lazard Group in connection with Lazard Group’s initial public offering
• The Permal Group in its restructuring and sale to Legg Mason, Inc.
• Groupe Danone in its sale of interest in DS Waters Enterprises, LP with DS Waters, LP and DS Waters Enterprises General Partner, LLC to Kelso & Company and in its acquisition of interest in DS Waters, LP from Suntory International Corp.

• American Bar Association
• International Bar Association
• American Society of International Law
• David Rockefeller Fellow
• French American Foundation