Shearman & Sterling received two significant awards—“M&A Deal of the Year” and “Restructuring Deal of the Year”—at the IFLR Americas Awards ceremony held in New York on March 31.

The M&A Deal of the Year recognizes the firm’s work on Dow Chemical Company’s $5 billion spinoff of its chlor-alkali and derivatives business and merger of the new entity with Olin Corporation, which acquired the assets using a Reverse Morris Trust tax structure. This complex and unique transaction included a carve-out, equity and debt exchanges and a public company merger.

The Restructuring Deal of the Year recognizes the firm’s representation of the ad hoc bank steering committee in connection with the $4.5 billion restructuring of Corporación GEO, a Mexican-based home builder, and certain of its subsidiaries in Mexico. This transaction was the first pre-packaged restructuring after the implementation of the new restructuring laws (Concurso Mercantil) under the Mexican financial reforms. The Shearman & Sterling team was led by of counsel Jeanne Olivier.

The firm was also shortlisted in the categories of “Debt and Equity-Linked Deal of the Year,” “High-Yield Deal of the Year,” “Debt and Equity-Linked Team of the Year,” “High-Yield Team of the Year,” “M&A Team of the Year,” “Restructuring Team of the Year” and “Americas Firm of the Year.”

The Team