A&O Shearman Johannesburg team heads for Bowmans after office closure Alex Ryan[email protected]3 October 2024Strategic recruitmentAfrica African firm Bowmans announced today (3 October) that it has hired all the lawyers from A&O Shearman’s shuttered Johannesburg office, including eight partners and a further six lawyers who are set to join as partners.Your limit of 1 article in 30 days is up. Please login for full access or subscribe. Corporate users - click here for simple access (no password needed). For more information, please contact [email protected] Related ContentMore in this categoryUS firms top UK and global rankings in record year for M&A megadealsRevolving Doors: Quinn poaches Milbank partner as S&C adds to City structured finance teamLatham taps A&O Shearman for three-partner London finance hirePaul Hastings infra pair head to Freshfields after two yearsGibson Dunn takes heavyweight Sullivan & Cromwell duo in major London playWhite & Case snaps up A&O Shearman IP trio as post-merger exits continue‘It was never a marriage made in heaven’- what Norton Rose Fulbright’s exit means for South AfricaNorton Rose Fulbright becomes latest firm to pull out of South AfricaAshurst opens in Casablanca: how firms are betting on an investment boom in Morocco