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4 unusual facts about Shearman & Sterling


Mitch Caplan

From 1984 to 1990 Caplan was an associate of the law firm Shearman & Sterling.

Operation Dreamseed

Major Schmidt worked with the law firm of Shearman & Sterling, LLP, to incorporate Operation Dreamseed in the State of New York.

Sterling Memorial Library

It was designed as a memorial to John William Sterling (Yale 1864), name partner in the New York law firm Shearman & Sterling, who donated around US$29 million to Yale upon his death.

Thomas F. Fennell

An expert in labor arbitration, Fennell was first an associate and then a partner beginning in 1943 at Shearman & Sterling, a law firm in Manhattan.


Albert Theodore Powers

He served as Asian Managing Partner for several of the world’s leading law firms, including Shearman & Sterling and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.

David Kershaw

Kershaw qualified as a Solicitor at Herbert Smith, London and practised corporate law in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group of Shearman & Sterling in New York and London.

International Business Companies Act

The Act was drafted principally by five people: Lewis Hunte, the then Attorney General of the British Virgin Islands; Neville Westwood, Michael Riegels and Richard Peters, who were partners at the law firm, Harneys; and Paul Butler, a partner from the U.S. law firm of Shearman & Sterling.

Lexington Community Unit School District 7

John A. Sterling — Lexington superintendent 1881–1883; Congressman 1903–1913 and 1915–1918

Sterling Law Building

The building is named after Yale alumnus and benefactor John William Sterling, name partner of the New York law firm Shearman & Sterling.


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