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...Simpson Thacher has hired Javad Asghari as a partner on the energy and infrastructure team in Los Angeles. He joins from Milbank....
...Simpson Thacher & Bartlett has added Paul Hibbert and Emma Serginson to its London office as partners focused on financing and credit across the infrastructure sector....
...Among them: Simpson Thacher; Kirkland & Ellis; Latham & Watkins; Cravath; Debevoise & Plimpton; Freshfields; and Akin Gump....
...Simpson Thacher has appointed Alexandra Kaplan and Brian Steinhardt as co-heads of the firm’s banking and credit practice. They succeed Patrick Ryan, who led the team since 2009....
...In today’s edition, Kenza reports on how carbon “insetting” may be catching on in the UK pension sector (following on from Patrick’s recent piece on that theme)....
...Explaining it in simple terms, bots are like a more sophisticated version of the drinking bird from The Simpsons....
...Angus Lennox is set to join Simpson Thacher & Bartlett as a real estate private equity partner in London. He is currently a managing director in Blackstone’s European real estate business....
...SVB Capital’s former deputy general counsel Jennifer Albrecht has joined Simpson Thacher & Bartlett’s alternative capital and private credit practice as a partner in New York....
...“Some people have adopted a wait-and-see view,” said Patrick Ryan, head of the global banking and credit practice at law firm Simpson Thacher....
...Patrick Temple-West How philanthropic capital can fuel billions for low-carbon development The UN climate summit in Glasgow in November underscored the vast amounts of capital that will be needed to drive...
...But in Anthony Simpson-Pike’s staging, the effect becomes wearing and monotonous over the course of two hours and 40 minutes (with an interval)....
...(The others are Balfour, Biddenden, Simpsons, Chapel Down, Squerryes, Gusbourne and Westwell.)...
...Disco sells electronic discovery, document review and case building services to Simpson Thacher, Wilson Sonsini and other law firms hungry for more efficiency in discovery tasks....
...(Patrick Temple-West and Gillian Tett) Prepare for the purpose-driven pay package Sir Adrian Cadbury, the British corporate governance reformer, used to remind Anne Simpson that the word “governance” derives...
...You can catch the discussion at its launch event between the likes of Calpers’ Anne Simpson and Oxford Saïd’s Colin Mayer here....
...I also checked in with Paul Simpson, chief executive of CDP, the global environmental disclosure system....
...Although the US is miles behind Europe on ESG, 75 per cent of the S&P 500 sent data to CDP, said Mr Simpson....
...Understanding the biggest sources of corporate emissions focuses minds, argues Simpson. “We’re not trying to boil the ocean,” she says....
...Additional reporting by Patrick Temple-West and Robin Wigglesworth...
...Jane Simpson, Riba chartered architect, member of the National Register of Access Consultants Opinions in this column are for general information purposes only....
...Simpson isn’t the only one enamoured with the easy elegance of the 1950s....
...Companies such as MasMovil and KCom have been taken private and this month Patrick Drahi, the billionaire, offered to buy out Altice, his listed telecoms acquisition vehicle....
...Patrick Temple-West will be at the Carbon Disclosure Project and World Benchmarking Alliance meeting to assess progress on the Paris climate agreement....
...“The value to us of SASB is the effort to identify potentially material issues on environmental and social issues,” said Anne Simpson, director of board governance and strategy at Calpers, one of the world...
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