Mr Harald Halbhuber > Shearman & Sterling LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile

Shearman & Sterling LLP
599 LEXINGTON AVENUE
NEW YORK, NY 10022-6069
NEW YORK
United States

Work Department

Capital Markets

Position

Partner

Career

Harald Halbhuber is a partner in the Capital Markets practice, where he focuses on complex corporate finance transactions, representing issuers and investment banks in debt and equity offerings, high yield financings, debt restructurings and equity derivatives. He also advises clients on critical disclosure and financial reporting matters, an area on which he has authored several publications.

Harald returned to his practice in 2022 from NYU School of Law’s Institute for Corporate Governance & Finance, where he was a Research Fellow in 2021. Prior to joining the Firm in 2011, Harald was a partner at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP from 2007 to 2009 and an associate from 2000 to 2007. In 2010, Harald was a Visiting Scholar at Columbia Law School.

Languages

English; German

Memberships

New York

Education

University of Vienna

S.J.D., summa cum laude

Harvard Law School

LL.M.

University of Vienna

J.D.

Lawyer Rankings

United States > Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings

Shearman & Sterling LLP continues to build its standing in the high-yield debt arena, with a significant market share of underwriter-side and issuer-side engagements. It represents a long list of banks as underwriters and has a burgeoning issuer client base. Its broader leveraged finance practice provides additional credibility and another source of deal flow for the capital markets team, including acquisition financings and liability management transactions. While much of the core high-yield debt expertise sits in the New York office, a team in Houston is also active in this area. Harald Halbhuber, Jason Lehner (who also manages the Toronto office) and Stephen Gruendel are key partners in New York. Jonathan DeSantis has left the firm.