Hints and tips:
...— Turkey’s increasing balance sheet risks (Brad Setser, CFR) — Money, inflation and the CFS — New York legislature considers three proposed sovereign debt laws (Cleary Gottlieb) — China’s rural influencers...
...Among them: Simpson Thacher; Kirkland & Ellis; Latham & Watkins; Cravath; Debevoise & Plimpton; Freshfields; and Akin Gump....
...Wachtell Lipton had perhaps ironically not received a role on the original M&A contract (which went to Wilson Sonsini and Simpson Thacher)....
...In a memo seen by the Financial Times, chair Brad Karp said the law firm had “been extraordinarily busy and we are on pace to have the strongest year in our history”....
...Isaka’s novel was a considerable hit in Japan (with a Brad Pitt film in the offing), but whether or not you enjoy it will depend on your taste for pitch black humour — and characters who are markedly divorced...
...Simpson Thacher & Bartlett has hired Benjamin Rippeon as a partner in its tax practice. He joins the Washington office from Gibson Dunn....
...She joins the firm’s San Francisco Bay Area office from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in Palo Alto....
...Cheers was still calling last orders, The Simpsons was hitting its stride and Seinfeld was master of its domain....
...At the opening of LA’s Frieze art fair I’d seen sophisticates sidle up to ask Brad Pitt for a selfie, or go slightly slack-jawed at the sight of Jodie Foster. Fame evolves, of course....
...Guests included the heads of the Gates and Rockefeller Foundations, heads of several investment trusts, a former producer of The Simpsons, and agri-businessman Sunny Verghese....
...I have booked a table at Simpson’s-in-the-Strand for noon, opening time at the grand London restaurant, and arrive early....
...One of Mr Smith’s supporters, Brad Christensen, says Washington is stirring up a lot of “hyperbole” around the debt ceiling. “If you look at what’s radical, it’s the spending endowments....
...In the Financial Review, David Carter, Betty Simkins and W Gary Simpson found a correlation between firm value and diversity on the board....
...Mr McClendon remains a member of the board along with Louis Simpson, named by Southeastern last year, and Merrill “Pete” Miller Jr....
...This is the most desirable shape for a top hat,” explains Simpson....
...Indeed, as Brad DeLong and Lawrence Summers have recently argued, whatever is invested at these rates is likely to pay for itself in higher growth and revenues....
...Nevertheless, he has a cult following among fans – including Brad Pitt – prepared to pay more than £1,000 for a coat, and the majority of each new collection sells out on arrival....
...Moneyball is Brad Pitt in a dugout. Oh dear; oh dear. Here is baseball, reel upon reel and inning upon inning....
...In what Lee Meyerson, a partner at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, calls the “new normal”, lawyers have to see the “big picture” to be able to achieve successful outcomes for business....
...It has also agreed film development deals with Hollywood stars, including George Clooney, Brad Pitt and Tom Hanks....
...For instance, when he took a set of pictures of the reality TV star Jessica Simpson for Vanity Fair earlier this year, he knew how to make her look good....
...Wells on speed, the actor Brad Dourif impersonates an alien who has come to Earth to warn us about the vanity of space travel....
...Tony Blair appeared in The Simpsons; Brad Pitt in King of the Hill; David Letterman in Beavis and Butt-head 40....
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