Global 20: Shearman & Sterling

By Sindhu Sundar (July 24, 2012, 10:36 PM EDT) -- Years of legwork preceded Shearman & Sterling LLP's sprawling global expansion, a strategy most emblematic in the decades the firm spent working with Brazilian companies before opening in Sao Paolo and eventually representing underwriters in the historic $1.95 billion initial public offering by Brazilian investment bank Banco BTG Pactual in 2012, keeping the firm on Law360's Global 20 list since 2011....

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