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...Job moves Simpson Thacher & Bartlett has hired a team of five partners from Skadden, including Sven Mickisch, who formerly co-headed its financial institutions group....
...While ValueAct is backing standard corporate turnarounds, Jeff Ubben, its founder, went in a different direction....
...Two other prominent activists, Jeffrey Smith’s Starboard Capital and Jeff Ubben’s Inclusive Capital, also hold stakes....
...And here’s a smart watch: OneWeb and Eutelsat are joining forces to take on Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk in the satellite race....
...That’s precisely what attracted playwright Mike Bartlett to the genre....
...He originally practised at the firm before moving to Simpson Thacher Bartlett, and then Mayer Brown....
...Simpson Thacher & Bartlett has hired Gregory Klein and Michael Kaplan as partners in its mergers and acquisitions practice in Los Angeles. They both join from Irell & Manella....
...In his annual shareholder letter, Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos on Thursday levelled a challenge to rivals, without naming any in particular....
...Bartlett Sher’s staging also suffers from conventional dramatic weaknesses....
...Simpson Thacher & Bartlett has hired Caroline Fatchett as head of the law firm’s global communications. Fatchett was formerly the global public relations manager at Skadden....
...Jeff DiModica, president of Starwood Property Trust, one of the lenders, called it “a really smart trade on a really beautiful building”....
...Jeff Bezos' company has pledged to invest $5bn in the world's largest democracy to secure market dominance....
...One-third of the engraved landscapes that featured in English artist WH Bartlett’s American Scenery, published between 1837 and 1839, were images of the Hudson Valley, the region which became famous a few...
...The proposal from Mr Naylor is unlikely to win broad support, said Jeff Harte, analyst at Sandler O’Neill in Chicago....
...Solomon and received legal counsel from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett....
...Dear Chairman: Boardroom Battles and the Rise of Shareholder Activism, by Jeff Gramm, HarperCollins, RRP£20/$29.99 A book on US corporate governance built round a series of letters from shareholders to...
...… Boyhood Island, by Karl Ove Knausgaard, translated by Don Bartlett, Harvill Secker, RRP£12.99 This third instalment in the Norwegian sensation’s six-volume My Struggle focuses on the anxieties and...
...… Annihilation, by Jeff VanderMeer, Fourth Estate, RRP£10/FSG Originals, RRP$13 A four-woman expedition into a mysterious disaster zone ends in chaos, paranoia and madness....
...Silver Lake was advised by Simpson Thacher & Bartlett....
...KKR was advised by Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett. The deal is expected to close in the third quarter of 2011. Pfizer’s shares rose 0.8 per cent to $20.54 on Monday in New York....
...Bartlett, Northampton, MA CB: That’s a persuasive line of argument to me....
...Next to go was Dan Bartlett, another long-serving Texan confidant, who was replaced by Mr Gillespie....
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