Corporate trust and agency
A&O Shearman’s market-leading corporate trust and agency practice comprises a dedicated team located in the U.S., EMEA and APAC providing English, New York and local law advice.
The team is fully integrated with, and supported by, our wider finance, disputes, regulatory, tax and restructuring practices across our global network. This allows us to provide seamless, specialist advice to our corporate trust and agency clients in all key jurisdictions around the world.
Advice across the full suite of transactions
Our expertise covers the full range of finance transactions, including domestic and cross-border corporate note programs and standalone issuances, digitalized securities issuance, high-yield bonds and leveraged finance, project finance, Islamic finance, securitizations, CLOs and all other forms of asset-backed structured finance transactions and secured lending.
We act for our trustee and agency clients across the full lifecycle of these transactions, including disputes and litigation, restructurings, liability management exercises, defaults and the general exercise of trustee powers and discretions.
Our team also regularly advises trust and agency providers, account banks and custodians on large-scale documentary review programs and has extensive experience of the use of legal technology solutions to deliver these projects efficiently.
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