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...Law firm Simpson Thacher has hired media deals lawyer David Hernand as a partner in its Los Angeles office from Paul Hastings. White & Case has hired Keith Hallam as an M&A partner in New York....
...Kasoff was previously a partner and senior portfolio manager at Elliott Management....
...Law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett has named 32 new partners.* Law firm White & Case has named 42 new partners....
...Simpson Thacher has hired Stephanie Biggs as a partner in London, where she will co-lead the firm’s European financial services and funds regulatory team. She joins from Travers Smith....
...Simpson Thacher & Bartlett has hired Paul Weiss’s Tracey Zaccone and Latham & Watkins’ David Teh to co-lead its alternatives and private credit practice....
...Simpson Thacher & Bartlett has hired Stephanie Biggs as a partner in London, where she will co-lead the firm’s European financial services and funds regulatory team. She joins from Travers Smith....
...Elliott’s Nabeel Bhanji joined Toshiba’s board last year and has a vested interest in getting the best price....
...“At some point during the year . . . we’ll start building up again,” said Eric Swedenburg, a partner at the law firm Simpson Thacher. “It won’t be right out of the gate in January....
...Job moves Heidi Mayon has joined Simpson Thacher & Bartlett as a partner in its capital markets practice. She was previously at Goodwin Procter....
...In the US, activist fund Elliott Management led the take-privates of media ratings group Nielsen for $16bn and software company Citrix for $16.5bn....
...Meyrick Chapman is the principal of Hedge Analytics and a former portfolio manager at Elliott Management and bond strategist at UBS....
...Alden Millard has been elected chair of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett’s executive committee....
...The compromise included Elliott’s Cohn joining the board of the social media platform....
...As a partner at New York powerhouse law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, he had helped Henry Kravis prevail in the $25bn brawl for RJR Nabisco in 1989....
...Andreessen Horowitz has named Arianna Simpson as general partner for the a16z crypto investment fund. She previously ran her own fund called Autonomous Partners....
...One thing to start: the activist hedge fund Elliott Management has built a multibillion-pound stake in the UK drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline, setting up a potential battle over the company’s future after GSK...
...But with the US government, foreign bad actors, and the activist hedge fund Elliott Management on his list of worries, to name a few, it’s time to hop in the driver’s seat....
...Baker McKenzie has hired Marcela Robledo as an IP transactional partner in San Francisco from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett....
...Holo joins from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. K&L Gates has added a team of lawyers from Holding Redlich to its corporate practice in Melbourne, led by Harry Kingsley....
...(FT) Holdout heroes Elliott Management, the king of holding out until it gets what it wants, scored itself a nice Christmas bonus....
...Squire Patton Boggs has added former KPMG executive Stephen Ball and Simpson Thacher associates Charles Leeming and Ben Squires to its global corporate practice in London....
...Founded by Paul Singer and known for its brash style, Elliott is raising $2bn to fund outright takeovers....
...Rupert Murdoch had long preferred selling the Fox cable TV and film studio — behind The Simpsons and X-Men franchises — to Walt Disney....
...Job moves Simpson Thacher & Bartlett has hired Amy Mahon to join its London-based M&A practice as a partner. She joins from Clifford Chance....
...And there are scores of often comic fan artworks and memes putting famous figures in the sweater and shades, from Papa Smurf and Bart Simpson to Marilyn Monroe and Donald Trump....
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