Hints and tips:
...One is energy giant TotalEnergies, where Patrick Pouyanné’s dual role is being challenged by investors wanting a faster shift away from fossil fuels....
...Among them: Simpson Thacher; Kirkland & Ellis; Latham & Watkins; Cravath; Debevoise & Plimpton; Freshfields; and Akin Gump....
...Skadden has hired Sebastian FitzGerald as a partner in London with its banking group. He was previously at Willkie Farr & Gallagher....
...Riyadh-based lawyers Noor Al-Fawzan of Latham & Watkins and Manal Al-Musharaf of White & Case have joined as partners....
...Strive’s financial backers include billionaire investor Peter Thiel and Howard Lutnick, the Cantor Fitzgerald chief executive. Both are big donors to Republican candidates....
...Citigroup has promoted Linos Lekkas and Patrick Frowein as co-heads of its banking, capital markets and advisory unit for continental Europe....
...Latham & Watkins has hired Sidley Austin’s Mateja Maher and Adrian Grocock as partners in its private equity and investment funds practice, based in London....
...Christopher Clark, who counts Elon Musk as a past client and currently represents Hunter Biden, has left Latham & Watkins....
...Davis Polk has poached M&A partner Thomas Malone and finance partner David Penna from Latham & Watkins. They are based in New York and Washington, respectively....
...It’s 50 years since Ireland joined the EU, and John FitzGerald and Patrick Honohan have written a blissfully succinct and clear book about how the country’s economy has been transformed by membership....
...Linklaters has hired Latham & Watkins’ John Guccione as a corporate partner in London....
...The team of scientists from the UK, US and Singapore was selected by a panel chaired by Sir Patrick Vallance, chief scientific adviser to the UK government....
...Olaf Storbeck Additional reporting by Patrick Jenkins in London....
...Patrick McGee, San Francisco Correspondent Among the best and most original features I read all year was this profile of a professional stone skipper — Stone Skipping Is a Lost Art....
...With the ball in their court, the funds are negotiating with Trump and Patrick Orlando — head of the blank-cheque company taking TMTG public — to tilt the financing further in their favour, DD’s Antoine...
...Companies that went public via Spac deals spearheaded by tech investor Chamath Palihapitiya and Cantor Fitzgerald chief executive Howard Lutnick performed worse than the average blank cheque deal in 2021...
...(Patrick Temple-West) Fiona Hill: Do you really want to have your money invested in Russia right now?...
New targets and regulations led to unprecedented activity in the past year
...Latham & Watkins has hired David Sherman as a partner in its investment funds and private equity practices in New York. He joins from Kirkland & Ellis....
...“The game has changed phenomenally,” says Mike Turner, a partner at law firm Latham & Watkins....
...These qualities feature in the set pieces of the great 20th-century party laureates — F Scott Fitzgerald, Evelyn Waugh, Henry Green....
...“Some of the problems will be expensive to solve,” Fitzgerald said....
...(Patrick Temple-West) Litigation risk: the latest ESG threat facing companies We write a lot in this newsletter about the risks of ignoring ESG, but one big issue has largely flown under the radar....
...One thing to start: Latham & Watkins posted record revenues of $4.3bn last year, among the highest-ever for a law firm. Read more here....
...While Orléans-Braganza has a small stake in the Spac, the real beneficiary is an obscure Florida-based businessman called Patrick Orlando....
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