David Stevenson assesses Shearman’s hopes of regaining its potency
‘The work that’s been done over the last few years is bearing fruit. Like a tree blossoming,’ observes Laurence Levy, head of European M&A at Shearman & Sterling. Long-time Shearman watchers have, of course, become familiar with variations on the revival rhetoric that Shearman has used several times before. But has this once celebrated Wall Street name really rediscovered its winning ways?