Paul Gerstle
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Paul Gerstle

Associate

Email

paul.gerstle@aoshearman.com

Phone

+17133323572

Offices

Houston

V-CARD

Paul’s practice focuses on representing issuers and underwriters in a broad range of capital markets matters, including equity offerings, debt offerings, and other domestic and international public capital markets transactions.

He also advises public companies on general corporate governance and securities law compliance matters.

Expertise

Experience

Representative matters

  • The sole book-running manager on the upsized $276 million IPO and NYSE listing of units of SilverBox Corp V, a U.S.-based SPAC.
  • The underwriters in connection with a $800 million notes offering by Steel Dynamics, Inc.

Pro bono

  • Provided legal assistance to veterans seeking to upgrade their discharge characterization in partnership with the National Veterans Legal Service Program.
  • Assisted Amicus-ALJ in ensuring that individuals on death row receive proper legal representation by supporting pre-trial matters.

Published Work

  • Paul Gerstle, A Unicorn No More? The No-Trade Clause and its Potential to Reshape NBA Contractual Negotiations, 27 VANDERBILT JOURNAL OF ENTERTAINMENT AND TECHNOLOGY LAW 523 (2025)

Qualifications

Admissions

Attorney-at-Law, Texas, 2025

Academic

B.A., History and Political Science, Washington University in St. Louis, 2022

J.D., Vanderbilt University Law School, 2025

Disclaimer
A&O Shearman was formed on May 1, 2024 by the combination of Shearman & Sterling LLP and Allen & Overy LLP and their respective affiliates (the legacy firms). Any matters referred to above may include matters undertaken by one or more of the legacy firms rather than A&O Shearman.