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Simpson Thacher was honored with the 2022 South Asian Bar Association of New York (SABANY) Partners in Diversity Award. An inaugural distinction, the award was presented at the organization’s annual Leadership Awards Gala on September 13. Partner Sandy Qusba, former Co-Chair of the Firm’s Diversity Committee and an active member of Simpson Thacher’s South Asian Affinity Group, accepted the award on the Firm’s behalf. The award recognizes a leading law firm with an office in New York that has achieved significant success in the areas of recruiting, retaining and promoting attorneys from underrepresented backgrounds while also demonstrating a commitment to raising awareness of, and influencing the legal community to address, the challenges faced by underrepresented attorneys in the industry.

Founded in 1996, SABANY is an organization of South Asian attorneys practicing in the New York City metropolitan region. Its mission is to enhance the professional development of the South Asian legal community and act as a resource to the South Asian community at large by increasing access to justice, upholding the rule of law and improving the justice system. To learn more about SABANY, please click here.