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...Law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett has named 32 new partners.* Law firm White & Case has named 42 new partners....
...Here is Shelley Simpson, president of the trucking company JB Hunt, commenting on a 7 per cent year over year decline in revenue in the first quarter: We’re in a challenging freight environment where there...
...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....
...Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and Willkie Farr & Gallagher have both introduced the new rank in the past few years....
...“This sense of a sea change is profound but there’s a huge amount of uncertainty,” echoes Simpson, flashing back to Cadbury’s maxim. What this report provides is “a navigation guide”....
...But an analysis by the law firm Simpson Thacher found that the arrangement would lower the taxes on the income going to an LLC partner in an Up-C — relative to a shareholder receiving dividends — by 7 percentage...
...Job moves Simpson Thacher is opening an office in Brussels to be led by Antonio Bavasso, who joins from Allen & Overy, where he was co-head of the firm’s global antitrust and telecoms, media and technology...
...She joins the firm’s San Francisco Bay Area office from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in Palo Alto....
...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....
...(FT) A grim history The tontine, a centuries-old financial instrument that Bill Ackman’s latest special purpose acquisition company is based on, inspired grim storylines in The Simpsons and Agatha Christie...
...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....
...By 2020 Disney+ would offer more than 500 films and 75,000 television episodes, including all six original Star Wars films, 18 Pixar films and the full library of The Simpsons....
...Qatalyst Partners and law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett advised Hellman & Friedman. Shares of Ultimate Software rose 19 per cent in pre-market trading on Monday to $330.25....
...Marni Lerner, a partner at law firm Simpson Thacher, said those efforts are fuelled by cash inflows from pensions, endowments and sovereign wealth funds, as well as a $1.2tn stockpile of committed capital...
...Perella Weinberg Partners, Simpson Thacher and Munger, Tolles & Olsen advised Oaktree, while Weil Gotshal and Tory’s advised Brookfield....
...Over my three adult decades there must have been things I thought were “awesome”, but having never been a character in The Simpsons, I would never have described them as such....
...Goldman Sachs and Allen & Co are serving as financial advisers to Best Buy, and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett is serving as legal adviser to the company....
...Job moves Simpson Thacher & Bartlett has hired Amy Mahon to join its London-based M&A practice as a partner. She joins from Clifford Chance....
...“The current speed of fundraising is in my experience unprecedented,” said Jason Glover, a London partner at Simpson Thacher, the law firm....
...John Simpson of Consumer Watchdog, a consumer advocacy group, said that Alphabet’s driverless car unit, Waymo, has not been open about how its AI has been taught to behave when an accident is imminent and...
...“We really don’t know, based on any meaningful data, what’s actually going on,” said John Simpson of Consumer Watchdog, a US advocacy group....
...Simpson Thacher & Bartlett acted as legal adviser to Red Ventures....
...Jason Simpson, a UK rates strategist at Société Générale, said the announcements by the rating agencies would not immediately affect investor behaviour because investors were already aware of the reasons...
...That may also explain why our toilets flush backwards to the US (that’s a Simpsons reference)....
...Anthony Simpson, meanwhile, has joined as European head of client portfolio management for multi asset solutions after spending almost a decade in the hedge fund industry....
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