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...Smart reads Fink’s last dance Larry Fink built BlackRock into the world’s largest asset manager....
...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....
...The rules of engagement Despite the apparent momentum behind divestment, Larry Fink, chief executive of BlackRock, decided this year to make a vocal case for engagement....
...He followed with an eponymous SoHo gallery, representing artists such as Nancy Spero and Lorna Simpson....
...Since BlackRock chief executive Larry Fink and the Business Roundtable endorsed the idea of companies serving a social purpose, the idea of corporate purpose has been “very ambiguous”, notes Amelia Miazad...
...BlackRock’s admission into the group comes ahead of the annual letter to chief executives from Larry Fink, the fund manager’s chief executive....
...He originally practised at the firm before moving to Simpson Thacher Bartlett, and then Mayer Brown....
...“This will reverberate,” said Anne Simpson, head of board governance and sustainability at Calpers, a US pension fund backing the activists....
...Understanding the biggest sources of corporate emissions focuses minds, argues Simpson. “We’re not trying to boil the ocean,” she says....
...Cheers was still calling last orders, The Simpsons was hitting its stride and Seinfeld was master of its domain....
...Larry Fink, who runs BlackRock, the world’s biggest asset manager, expects further consolidation among smaller players and says executives have little choice....
...Law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett has hired Russell Light as a partner at its tax practice. He joins the New York office from Kirkland & Ellis....
...Had Simpson-Bowles been enacted, it would have been a catastrophe for the US economy at that tender stage of its post-2008 recovery....
...COE sekisen-kyoto.com Simpson’s, Sydney A dealer since 1978, Andrew Simpson specialises in early colonial Australian antiques – such as a stately c1795-1800 set of cedar drawers with original brass plate...
...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....
...Jason Glover, a partner at law firm Simpson Thacher said investors in a fund liked to see executives put “skin in the game” as that creates a greater alignment of interest for both groups....
...Four years later her career bloomed as BlackRock chief Larry Fink promoted her to head of Emea and on to the group’s powerful global executive committee....
...Better still, why not create a new version of the bilateral Simpson-Bowles Commission, which proffered some sensible ideas under the last administration?...
...Some of the historical embellishments date back to Larry Lawrence, the late US ambassador to Switzerland and multimillionaire property mogul who owned the hotel from 1963 until his death in 1996....
...It happened to Tom, it happened to Jerry, and it happened to Homer Simpson. It is now also happening to the most powerful men in the fund management industry....
...But despite all the bad experiences with dealmakers, GE still needs them as Larry Culp, the man appointed to replace John Flannery at the helm of the company, vowed to maintain his predecessor’s strategy...
...One of the authors of your letter wrote that the Bowles-Simpson fiscal commission “was very good”, and several other signatories wrote that it should be the “starting point” for fiscal negotiations....
...The tragic loss of Bart Simpson in 2013 ended that cup attempt SoftBank Team Japan skippered by Dean Barker....
...Simpson Thacher & Bartlett has appointed David W Blass as a partner in the Washington DC office....
...His rivalry with the Boston Celtics’ Larry Bird revived a moribund sport and paved the way for Michael Jordan and the stars who followed him....
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