Robert Ellison, Managing Partner of Shearman & Sterling’s São Paulo office, focuses his practice on financings for non-US companies and cross-border M&A transactions. He speaks English, French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. Mr. Ellison, who joined Shearman & Sterling in 1994, was Managing Partner of the firm’s Rome office for six years, and practiced in the Paris office for seven years in addition to practicing in New York. He is ranked as a “leading lawyer” by both Chambers Guide to the Global Legal Profession and IFLR 1000 Americas – 2012 Edition, was named as a “Latin America Legal Star” in 2014 and 2012 by Latin Business Chronicle, and was listed as “first class” in Who’s Who Legal – Brazil 2010.