Shearman Beefs Up CapM, Litigation Practices in Houston

Shearman & Sterling announced two new partner hires in Houston this week.Litigator Samuel Cooper and capital markets attorney Taylor Landry have joined Shearman, Cooper from Paul Hastings and Landry from Hunton Andrews Kurth.Cooper’s disputes practice encompasses corporate governance and transaction litigation, complex commercial litigation, commercial arbitration, securities and shareholder litigation, antitrust litigation, as well as enforcement and internal investigations. He is the fourth Texas litigation partner Shearman has added in the last eight months.In 2020 Cooper and Shearman worked together to defend a breach-of-fiduciary-duty lawsuit brought by an institutional investor in Delaware Chancery Court stemming from the 2017 merger of…