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Adeeb Fadil is Senior Counsel at Simpson Thacher, where he is a member of the Firm's Corporate Department and Environmental Practice Group. He focuses on environmental aspects of transactions including acquisitions, divestitures, loans, securities offerings, and bankruptcies and restructurings, for a wide range of the firm’s clients, as well as on environmental liability management, compliance counseling, and dispute resolution.
His experience covers transactions, often with significant cross-border aspects, in many industries, including: electrical power, oil and gas exploration, coal and other mining, oil refining, chemicals and specialty chemicals, steel, pulp and paper, equipment and parts manufacturing, plastics, glass, pharmaceuticals, textiles, transportation including airlines and railroads, publishing, telecommunications, food raising and processing, food services, home building, property development and brownfield re-development, hospitality, health care, and retail and other service industries. He recently handled environmental aspects of the firm’s representation of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and TPG, in their acquisition of TXU and related financings; The Blackstone Group, in its investment in China National Bluestar, its acquisition of Pinnacle Foods Group Inc., and its buyout of Hilton Hotels Corporation; ITT Corporation, in its merger with EDO Corporation and in the sale of its switches business; Owens-Illinois, in the sale of its plastics business to Rexam PLC; Barr Pharmaceuticals, in its acquisition of Pliva, d.d.; JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank, and Goldman Sachs in their financing the reorganization plan of Mirant North America (notes offering and senior secured credit facilities); and Royal Bank of Canada, in its financing the reorganization plan of Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel Corporation (secured credit facilities). He was also involved in the firm’s successfully obtaining the dismissal recently, in federal district court, of a suit challenging construction of the Longview power plant in West Virginia, financed by firm client First Reserve.
Mr. Fadil has been recognized for environmental law in Chambers & Partners’ Chambers USA (since 2003), Woodward/White’s The Best Lawyers in America (since 2005), Practical Law Company’s Cross-border Environment Handbook (since 2006), Law Business Research’s The International Who’s Who of Environment Lawyers (since 2007), and other publications. He currently chairs the International Environmental Law Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. For many years he has served on the Board of Directors of American Friends of Neve Shalom/Wahat al-Salam and also served two terms as the corporation's president.
Following graduation from the Yale Law School in 1984, Mr. Fadil clerked for the Hon. Robert R. Merhige, Jr., in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. He joined the firm in 1989 and became Counsel in 1994. His B.A. is from the University of Virginia (with highest distinction), where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Prior to attending law school he served in VISTA (now AmeriCorps VISTA) in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Honors/Associations
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American Bar Association |
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Association of the Bar of the City of New York |
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New York State Bar Association |
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Publications
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Admissions
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New York 1986 |
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U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York 1986 |
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U.S. District Court Northern District of New York 1986 |
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U.S. District Court Southern District of New York 1986 |
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Hon. Robert R. Merhige, Jr., U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia, 1984-1985 |
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Education
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Yale Law School, 1984 J.D. |
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University of Virginia, 1980 B.A.
With Highest Distinction; Phi Beta Kappa; Echols Scholar |
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