Law 360 M&A

MARCH 1, 2023

A longtime Sidley Austin LLP partner who co-led that firm's antitrust and competition practice has joined Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's litigation department.

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Law 360 M&A

JANUARY 31, 2023

Goodwin Procter LLP has added a Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP counsel to its antitrust and competition practice, the firm announced Monday.

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Law 360 M&A

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Centerbridge Partners and Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC will acquire logistics and industrial real estate firm INDUS Realty Trust in an all-cash deal worth $868 million announced Wednesday, with guidance from Simpson Thacher, Skadden and Latham.

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Law 360 M&A

DECEMBER 2, 2022

billion) acquisition by a private equity firm has gained regulatory approval to proceed, in a deal guided by Slaughter and May and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. Renewable energy business ContourGlobal said Friday that its £1.75 billion ($2.15

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Law 360 M&A

JULY 8, 2022

Global investment firm KKR & Co. has chosen a former outside counsel from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP to lead its legal department.

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Law 360 M&A

MAY 20, 2022

With so much mergers and acquisitions news this week, you may have missed several deals announced in the last several days helmed by firms such as Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP.

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Law 360 M&A

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP partner Anthony Vernace has helped close major acquisitions this year while working in the firm's corporate team, bringing home deals like Microsoft's $68 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard and its $19 billion purchase of Nuance Communications last April, earning him a spot as one of Law360's 2022 Mergers & Acquisitions (..)

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Harvard Corporate Governance

JUNE 2, 2023

Rosenthal, and Christopher Soares, Dechert LLP, on Friday, May 26, 2023 Tags: Beneficial owners , Disclosure , Monetary policy , Risk , SEC enforcement , Securities Exchange Act of 1934 Florida Passes Farthest-Reaching Anti-ESG Law to Date Posted by Leah Malone and Emily B.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

portfolio companies Posted by John Galloway, Vanguard, Inc., on Tuesday, February 7, 2023 Tags: Accountability , Audit committee , Board of Directors , Corporate governance , Proxy voting , Shareholder rights Boardwalk Pipeline v.

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Law 360 M&A

JANUARY 19, 2023

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP represented clients involved in some of the highest-profile deals of the year, including longstanding client Microsoft in its $68.7

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Law 360 M&A

JULY 15, 2022

With so much mergers and acquisitions news this week, you may have missed several deals announced in the last several days helmed by firms such as Cooley and Simpson Thacher.

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Law 360 M&A

AUGUST 1, 2022

PerkinElmer on Monday agreed to sell businesses focused on applied sciences and food to private equity firm New Mountain Capital for $2.45 billion in an agreement shaped by the companies' respective legal advisers, WilmerHale and Simpson Thacher.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Ho, Mike Delikat, and Bobby Bee, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, on Sunday, August 27, 2023 Tags: dei , EEOC , Supreme Court , Wal-Mart Special Committee Report Posted by Gregory Gooding, Maeve O’Connor, and Caitlin Gibson, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, on Monday, August 28, 2023 Tags: corporate transactions , Delaware articles , Delaware cases (..)

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Law 360 M&A

APRIL 12, 2022

KKR will buy cloud security and data protection company Barracuda Networks from fellow private equity firm Thoma Bravo, the companies said Tuesday, in a transaction that values the target at nearly $4 billion and was shaped by Simpson Thacher and Kirkland & Ellis.

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Law 360 M&A

APRIL 5, 2022

Simpson Thacher, Bech-Bruun and Hengeler Mueller were among more than a dozen firms that landed work on the 10 largest real estate mergers and acquisitions of the first quarter, a period that saw five deals north of the $5 billion mark.

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Law 360 M&A

APRIL 6, 2022

Simpson Thacher and Jones Day were among the half-dozen law firms that handled the largest hospitality mergers and acquisitions of the first quarter, a slow period that saw only three transactions north of the $300 million mark amid concerns over the omicron wave and the war in Ukraine.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

APRIL 29, 2022

Posted by Lynn Neuner, Jonathan Youngwood, Janet Gochman, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, on Wednesday, April 27, 2022. Tags: Innovation , Institutional Investors , Labor markets , Reputation , Tech companies , Venture capital firms. Posted by Ting Xu (University of Virginia), on Monday, April 25, 2022.

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Reynolds Holding

JANUARY 16, 2023

This post comes to us from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP. It is based on the firm’s memorandum, “Second Circuit Curtails Title 18 Insider Trading Liability,’ dated January 4, 2023, and available here.

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MAY 16, 2023

This post comes to us from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP. It is based on the firm’s memorandum, “Tracking the SEC’s Climate and ESG Task Force,” dated April 26, 2023, and available here. [6] Based on the SEC’s settlement announcement and order. The company did not admit or deny the findings of the order.

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Harvard Corporate Governance

MARCH 22, 2024

Tong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, on Tuesday, March 19, 2024 Tags: CEO turnovers , Executive Compensation , Executive performance , Firm performance , recession , Stock performance , stock prices Investment Stewardship 2023 Annual Report Posted by John Galloway, Vanguard, Inc.,

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Harvard Corporate Governance

APRIL 15, 2022

Posted by Nicholas Goldin, Karen Hsu Kelley and Shanice Hinckson, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, on Tuesday, April 12, 2022. SEC Proposes Cybersecurity Risk Management, Strategy, Governance and Incident Disclosure Rules. Gözlügöl (Leibniz Institute for Financial Research), on Thursday, April 14, 2022. Posted by Theodore N.

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Reynolds Holding

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

This post comes to us from Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett LLP. It is based on the firm’s memorandum, “Supreme Court: Grants Certiorari to Determine Whether Purchasing Shares in a Direct Listing Creates Standing Under the Securities Act,” dated January 31, 2023, and available here. . § 77 l (a). [3]

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Reynolds Holding

OCTOBER 10, 2023

5] As one commenter explained, “permitting buyers to make a profit from their asymmetric information is often needed to induce them to invest effort to discover firms that are mismanaged.” [6] 22] Moreover, the costs of speedier filings for these investors, some of whom are small and not financial firms, are likely to be high. [23]

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Reynolds Holding

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Proxy Advisory Firms. This post comes to us from Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP. It is based on the firm’s memorandum, “DOL Issues Final Rule on ESG Investing and Proxy Voting,” dated December 8, 2022, and available here. 72846, 72848 (Nov.

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