Partners Antonia Stolper (New York-Capital Markets), Grissel Mercado (New York-Capital Markets), Alexandro M. Padrés (New York-Project Development & Finance) and Roberta Berliner Cherman (São Paulo-Capital Markets) authored an article titled, “ESG’s Undeniable Influence on Investment in Latin America,” for Legal 500’s Latin America GC Survey.

Shearman & Sterling represented BofA Securities, Inc., China Renaissance Securities (Hong Kong) Limited, ICBC International Securities Limited and A.G.P./Alliance Global Partners, as joint-bookrunners, and The Benchmark Company, LLC, as co-manager, in connection with the SEC-registered follow-on offering of 8,500,001 American Depositary Shares (“ADSs”) representing 4,250,000.5 Class A ordinary shares of iClick Interactive Asia Group Limited (“iClick”) for a total consideration of $72.25 million (“Offering”). Of the ADSs sold in the Offering, 6,877, 214 ADSs were sold by iClick, and 1,622,787 ADSs were sold by a selling shareholder.

Shearman & Sterling attorneys, in collaboration with Barclays Bank PLC and Coalition for Green Capital, drafted model green bank legislation for state and local governments and accompanying model green bank bylaws for the Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization in the United States Project (Environmental Law Institute; Columbia Law School Sabin Center for Climate Change Law), which provides model laws that legislatures can customize and adopt to drastically reduce fossil fuel use and greenhouse gas emissions.

Shearman & Sterling is representing ViacomCBS in the sale of CNET Media Group to Red Ventures, a portfolio of more than 100 digital brands, for $500 million.

Diversity Lab today announced that Shearman & Sterling has successfully achieved Mansfield Certification after completing the Mansfield Rule 3.0 certification program.

Tsegaye Laurendeau was named “ADR Personality” by the Lagos Chamber of Commerce Arbitration Centre (LACIAC).

Global Law firm Shearman & Sterling today announces the appointment of Simon Marchant as a Senior Advisor.

Shearman & Sterling advised EMZ Partners (EMZ) on the financing of the acquisition of a stake in Ankerkraut GmbH (Ankerkraut), a German spice manufacturer. In addition to EMZ, the Management team of Ankerkraut also becomes a shareholder. The founding family Lemcke remains majority owner of the business and the incumbent minority shareholders Freigeist Capital and Knälmann Ventures stay on board.

Shearman & Sterling won “M&A Deal of the Year: North Asia” for its work on the business integration of Yahoo! Japan and Line Corporation at ALM’s The Asia Legal Awards 2020. The firm advised Line Corporation in what was one of the most significant deals in terms of nature and size in Japan in 2019.

Shearman & Sterling won “Capital markets: Debt Deal of the Year” for its work on the Greenko Solar bond offering at the inaugural IFLR1000 India Awards 2020. The firm advised Greenko Energy Holdings and Greenko Solar (Mauritius) Limited on that deal, which was the largest green bond in Asia and the largest high yield bond from India in 2019.