Shearman & Sterling advised IG4 Capital (IG4) on the successful final close of IG4 Capital Private Equity Investment II, structured as a series of English limited partnerships, that collectively focuses on making control, co-control and influential minority private equity investments in special situation opportunities in Latin America.  The fund has raised $231.5 million in capital commitments.

Shearman & Sterling partners with UK-based charity Human Rights at Sea to jointly develop a system aimed at facilitating, through the use of international arbitration, the redress of human rights abuses occurring at sea.

George Casey, Global Managing Partner of Shearman & Sterling, chaired a conference moderated by Chief Justice Leo Strine and Penn Law Prof. Larry Hamermesh titled "Comparative Deal Architecture: Are U.S. and European Deals Built the Same Way; Cross-Border Deal Dynamics in a Fragmenting World."

Partner Philip Stopford (London-Finance) and associate Maria Cornilsen (London-Finance) hosted a podcast with Debtwire in which they discussed cross-border anti-net short trends. This podcast explores the topic of anti-net short investor protections and how this relatively new mechanic to leveraged finance transactions has evolved over a short period of time.

Shearman & Sterling advised BBVA Bancomer, S.A., Institución de Banca Múltiple, Grupo Financiero BBVA Bancomer, as administrative agent and sole lead arranger and bookrunner, on the $470 million refinancing of a credit facility for Mexican automotive company Rassini.

Further to the recent Shearman & Sterling event about the future of subsidy control State aid in the U.K., held on Wednesday 4 March 2020.