Ed Ford

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP provides legal services. Its areas of practices include corporate, litigation, banking and credit, capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, real estate, private funds, intellectual property, restructuring and bankruptcy, and tax. The firm serves the energy, financial services, healthcare, insurance and reinsurance, technology, retail, defense, education and transportation industries. The company operates through its offices located in Beijing, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Los Angeles, New York, Palo Alto, São Paulo, Seoul, Tokyo and Washington, DC. Simpson Thacher & Bartlett was founded in 1884 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Mercantile Group Ltd. provides real estate asset protection services. It offers property inspections, property preservation, property estimates and repairs, property registration, reo and rental property management, insurance claims and field service audits and reimbursement services. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.