Shearman & Sterling represented the initial purchasers in connection with Jiayuan International Group Limited’s offering of $120 million aggregate principal amount of 11.75/% senior notes due 2021.

Shearman & Sterling won “Law Firm of the Year Transportation” at Top Legal Industry Awards Web Edition in recognition of its work on green financing of €1.1 billion for Italo. 

Shearman & Sterling earned top rankings in the latest edition of The Legal 500 – United States guide, attaining 39 practice rankings and 25 partner recognitions, demonstrating our reputation as a go-to firm for highly complex cross-border transactions and high-profile disputes.

Shearman & Sterling represented the underwriters, led by NatWest Markets Securities Inc. and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC in connection with The Royal Bank of Scotland Group’s (RBSG) offering of $1.5 billion aggregate principal amount of 6.000% reset perpetual subordinated contingent convertible additional tier 1 capital notes. The joint bookrunners included Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC and UBS Securities LLC.

Shearman & Sterling represented Synthomer plc on its inaugural high yield bond offering of €520 million 3.875% senior notes due 2025.

IFLR1000 named five of Shearman & Sterling’s top female partners to its Women Leaders 2020 list of “highly regarded” lawyers worldwide.

This LGBTQ+ Pride Month, Shearman & Sterling recognizes the Black pioneers and activists for LGBTQ+ rights whose work has been an example to tens of millions of people. This is an especially poignant time with respect to the dignity of the LGBTQ+ community in the United States. On the one hand, the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Bostock vs. Clayton County earlier this month is cause for hope and celebration. Employment protections are an essential component of the struggle for full LGBTQ+ equality. Yet, the violent discrimination against transgender and gender non-conforming people, particularly trans women of color, persists. It is a reality that is sustained by a pervasive culture of misogyny, homophobia, and racism which inflicts these atrocities, and then denies, minimizes or ignores their existence.

Shearman & Sterling advised Coca-Cola European Partners plc (CCEP) in connection with its issuance of €250,000,000 1.500% senior notes due 2027, to be consolidated and to form a single series with CCEP’s existing €400,000,000 1.500% Notes due 2027 issued on November 8, 2018. The transaction closed on June 23, 2020. CCEP intends to use the net proceeds of this offering to repay maturing debt and for other general corporate purposes.

Shearman & Sterling represented Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. and Banco Atlántida, S.A., as initial purchasers, in connection with a Rule 144A/Regulation S offering by the Republic of Honduras of $600 million aggregate principal amount of its 5.625 percent notes due 2030.

Shearman & Sterling represented the joint lead managers in connection with CNPC Global Capital Limited’s offering of $600 million 1.125% bonds due 2023, $900 million 1.350% bonds due 2025 and the $500 million 2% bonds due 2030, irrevocably and unconditionally guaranteed by China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC). This deal is CNPC's first offshore bond offering within the last five years.