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...Rajib Chanda, partner at the law firm Simpson Thacher, said: “What the SEC now seeks to do is, in the guise of ESG regulation, overhaul [a] rule which frankly . . . didn’t need an overhaul.”...
...Each exposure to bureaucracy is as harrowing as what those bastards did to Josef K. Even a meandering or repetitive conversationalist is gently eased out of your life....
...At a recent conference Germany’s K+S said a new floor price of $500 a tonne was possible — half the current spot price but double the average price of the previous decade....
...You can catch the discussion at its launch event between the likes of Calpers’ Anne Simpson and Oxford Saïd’s Colin Mayer here....
...Before joining the US regulator in 2017, he was a senior partner in Simpson Thacher & Bartlett’s Silicon Valley office. KPMG added nine new partners to its deal advisory practice in the UK....
...Both join from K & L Gates....
...Saturday puzzles Crossword 16,425: Bill Stewart, Leicester; R Harpur, Herefordshire; Martyn Abbott, Lincolnshire Polymath 1,065: P Johnson, Berwickshire Crossword 16,419: Paul Rock, Walden, England; James Simpson...
...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....
...In Pioneertown, local agent John Simpson is selling a three-bedroom home designed by architect Frank Garske and rebuilt in 2008 after the original was destroyed by fire....
...I wrote a piece for @NYTimes telling him to go f**k himself.” Ansari shakes his head and tells me that it’s not intentional — he no longer uses the account. “I should take that down.”...
...(WSJ) Trump’s debt to ‘brilliant’ Rachel Maddow Stephen K Bannon, the new CEO of the Trump campaign, picked Maddow as a guiding light. It makes a certain odd kind of sense....
...Key statistics: Team name: VIP (Vaccinate International Programme)Team members: Rui Zhou, Gabriel Wong (team leader), Abdullahi Osman, Samantha Denning, Srihari K.S, Shiv Jagadev, Ankit Gupta, Ingrid Marchal-GerezSchools...
...Linda Sleire, Per Ø Enger, Rolf K Reed, Anne M Øyan and Linda EB Stuhr Letter in response to this article: Vital missing detail / From Daniella Acker...
...Executive, Ataxia Telangiectasia Society Sue Millman Chief Executive, Ataxia UK Jon Spiers Chief Executive, Autistica Dr Edward Hodgkin Chief Executive, Autolus Roy Sutcliffe General Manager, B&K...
...government agencies is sometimes criticised for the potential clubbiness it can create, the practice has also caught on in the UK, with the London offices of US firms such as Covington, Steptoe & Johnson, and K&...
...“You can find the returns elsewhere,” Mr Simpson says....
...Cockfosters, by Helen Simpson, Jonathan Cape, RRP£15.99 Beginning with 1990s Four Bare Legs in a Bed, Simpson’s sharp, witty story collections have largely tracked her own time of life in their preoccupations...
...K. Prahalad’s book, The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid, has given me valuable insights on addressing poverty through means other than hand-outs from developed economies....
...And even scarier, this from O J Simpson: The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuse, that’s the day you start to the top....
...notes: “Of the $1tn in so-called tax expenditures that the plan would attack, the vast majority would come from slashing popular tax breaks for employer-provided health insurance, mortgage interest, 401(k)...
...The international flavour of the most innovative lawyering – such as Simpson Thacher & Bartlett’s work to bring a wealthy Russian investor to help fund a new arena and development for the New Jersey Nets...
...The delay follows a request at the end of last week from the heirs and trusts of a number of authors, including John Steinbeck, Philip K. Dick and Arlo Guthrie....
...Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP is acting as legal counsel to Pinnacle Foods. Kirkland & Ellis LLP is serving as legal counsel to Birds Eye Foods....
...Andrew Simpson, Olympic sailor. Liz Smith, actress. Jamie Staff, Olympic cyclist. David Stone, Paralympic cyclist. Geraint Thomas, Olympic cyclist....
...My wife Ingrid and I moved to Angamaly, a tiny rural town in Kerala, southern India, and rented a house at a point where paddy fields meet banana and rubber plantations....
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