Hervé Ekué

Managing Partner A&O Shearman | Executive Committee/Board member | Fifty Most Influential Lawyers in Europe 2025 - Financial News | Deeply committed to corporate and social responsibility

Greater Paris Metropolitan Region

About

I am Global Managing Partner for A&O Shearman following my time as Managing Partner for A&O Paris from 2018 through 2024. I joined A&O in France in 2001 and have been a member of A&O's global executive committee since 2020. I specialise in debt capital markets and derivatives, including derivative transactions across a broad range of asset classes, structured repurchase transactions and securities lending. I also advise financial institutions and corporates on financial law and financial restructuring, with a focus on the structuring and issuance of debt, hybrid, digital and derivative securities. I am honoured to have been Chambers’ top-ranked lawyer in Debt Capital Markets in France for many years and the only ranked “Star Individual”. "Hervé is available and has a perfect knowledge of the market. He has a very sensible and commercial approach." - Chambers Global France (Capital Markets: Debt), 2023 "He is an extraordinary partner and expert in his field. He is very skilled to manage diverse groups of clients, finding commercially sensible solutions for the parties under very tight calendars and under very stressful conditions." - Legal 500 EMEA - France (Capital Markets: Debt), 2023

Experience

  • Managing Partner at A&O Shearman
    May 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Allen & Overy (23 yrs 4 mos)
    • Partner / Avocat Associé
      Jan 2001 - Apr 2024 · 23 yrs 4 mos

    • Partner / Avocat Associé
      2001 - Apr 2024 · 23 yrs 4 mos

  • Avocat at Clifford Chance
    Jan 1998 - Jan 1999 · 1 yr 1 mo