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A&O Shearman Offices
A&O Shearman
599 LEXINGTON AVENUE
NEW YORK, NY 10022-6069
NEW YORK
United States
599 LEXINGTON AVENUE
NEW YORK, NY 10022-6069
NEW YORK
United States
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Mr John Cannon
Work Department
Compensation, Governance & ERISA
Position
Partner
Career
John Cannon is a partner in the Compensation, Governance & ERISA practice of Shearman & Sterling LLP.
He has extensive experience in executive compensation, management succession and general corporate governance matters, Dodd-Frank and Sarbanes-Oxley, and the employee issues implicated in the mergers and acquisitions context. He also has experience in advising startup companies in the biotechnology sector regarding corporate and compensation matters.
John represents corporate and financial institution clients including Boston Scientific, Citigroup, Corning, Danone, ICE (Intercontinental Exchange), State Street, Textron, Thomson Reuters and Viacom.
Languages
English; French; Spanish
Memberships
- New York
Education
New York University School of Law
J.D.
Harvard College
A.B.
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Tax > Financial products
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Dispute resolution > International litigation
- Tax > International tax
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Finance > Project finance
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Finance > Fintech
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Advertising and marketing: litigation