Stuart Fleischmann joined Shearman & Sterling in 1982 and has spent his entire career at the firm. He is currently a partner in the firm’s Capital Markets Group and spends time in both the New York and Sao Paulo offices focusing principally on debt and equity offerings by Latin American companies, sovereign nations and quasi-governmental entities. He regularly represents underwriters and issuers, primarily in the oil and gas, steel, telephone, electricity and financial institution industries, on a wide range of SEC registered, 144A/Regulation S and private placements of debt and equity securities. He is also regularly involved in such novel transactions as toll road financings and securitizations involving credit cards, residential mortgages, international oil payments, money transfers and electronic remittances, loan pools, auto and farm equipment loans and leases and franchise revenues.