Sentences with phrase «company law practice»

We had long had an idea that BC needed a company law practice manual, but we didn't want to undertake a significant effort on the eve of an entirely new statute.

As it turned out, we published the BC Company Law Practice Manual in 1997.

Kate has an expanding Company Law practice, which compliments and sits alongside her Insolvency practice.

Not exact matches

In their dealings in Canada, as with international transactions generally, Chinese companies have been scrupulously observant of prevailing laws and practices, but this is not their way at home.

Failing to hit its projections in its first few quarters as a public company would trigger shareholder lawsuits and cripple Spotify's ability to raise further capital, said Steve London, a partner in the securities practice of law firm Pepper Hamilton.

Lauren X. Topelsohn, a member of the Labor and Employment Practice at the law firm Mandelbaum Salsburg, says companies shouldn't cancel their parties.

Uber also released the recommendations of a months - long investigation led by the law firm of former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder who was retained by Uber to look into company culture and practices.

Despite having access to all the money in the world, they have written novels, started companies, edited magazines, and practiced law.

Legal experts said Berkshire Hathaway's mortgage companies were carrying out the very practices outlawed by the Fair Housing Act, a 50 - year - old law that banned racial discrimination in lending, by locating their branches in white neighborhoods, employing mortgage consultants who - from their websites - appear to be overwhelmingly white and lending mostly to white borrowers.

But increasingly, companies outside of finance are using blockchain technology to replace long - held authentication practices in law, real estate, and shipping.

The plunge of those notes began in earnest on September 6, when it became known that the company had hired law firm Kirkland & Ellis, whose bankruptcy - and - restructuring practice is considered a leader in the industry.

We protect consumers from unfair, deceptive, or abusive practices and take action against companies that break the law.

He is a Certified Specialist both in Taxation Law and in Estate Planning, Trust & Probate Law (The State Bar of California, Board of Legal Specialization) admitted to practice law in California, Hawai'i and Arizona (inactive), specializing in Federal and state civil tax and criminal tax controversy matters and tax litigation, including tax - related examinations and investigations for individuals, business enterprises, partnerships, limited liability companies, and corporatioLaw and in Estate Planning, Trust & Probate Law (The State Bar of California, Board of Legal Specialization) admitted to practice law in California, Hawai'i and Arizona (inactive), specializing in Federal and state civil tax and criminal tax controversy matters and tax litigation, including tax - related examinations and investigations for individuals, business enterprises, partnerships, limited liability companies, and corporatioLaw (The State Bar of California, Board of Legal Specialization) admitted to practice law in California, Hawai'i and Arizona (inactive), specializing in Federal and state civil tax and criminal tax controversy matters and tax litigation, including tax - related examinations and investigations for individuals, business enterprises, partnerships, limited liability companies, and corporatiolaw in California, Hawai'i and Arizona (inactive), specializing in Federal and state civil tax and criminal tax controversy matters and tax litigation, including tax - related examinations and investigations for individuals, business enterprises, partnerships, limited liability companies, and corporations.

Before starting her own employment law practice, Ms. Kow practiced employment law and litigation at leading California and national law firms, and served as the sole employment lawyer and Senior Counsel at a Silicon Valley based company with 75 locations worldwide.

This practice raised questions about whether the company complied with federal election law that limits the roles played by non-U.

Paradis said both companies had «made significant commitments to Canada in the areas of: governance, including commitments on transparency and disclosure; commercial orientation, including an adherence to Canadian laws and practices as well as free market principles» and «employment and capital investments, which demonstrate a long - term commitment to the development of the Canadian economy.»

He is the author of Oklahoma Business Organizations: Formation and Representation (Lexis / Matthew Bender Publishers, 1990 - supplemented annually), a highly successful practice manual for lawyers concerning material specific to Oklahoma corporate, partnership, limited liability companies and securities law.

Since the U.K. eliminated its tax on income earned outside the country several years ago, it's become increasingly popular for so - called corporate inversions, a controversial practice in which a foreign company buys a U.K. company, primarily to lower its tax bill, says Andrew Needham, a tax partner at law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore, which specializes in private equity and hedge funds.

The Company is an equal opportunity employer committed to complying with all state and federal fair employment practice laws, as well as maintaining a workforce that reflects the diversity of the community.

In doing so, he called on Congress to pass a new law that would require companies to improve their security practices and disclose breaches — something that lawmakers, even in the face of major cyber attacks, have long failed to do.

She is currently co-chairwoman of the STEP Swiss & Liechtenstein Federation and has qualifications in company law and practice, international trust management, trust administration and accounts, and trust creation.

His appointment follows significant growth and development of the real estate practice in the Kyiv office of Eterna Law and in accordance to the company's strategy aimed to strengthening of international opportunities to respond to the growing demand of Ukrainian and foreign customers for services in support of major transactions in the real estate sector.

They can't be the only bank providing working capital financing to a mid-size manufacturing company, are too small to finance a successful new car dealer and really shouldn't take on a mid-sized medical, accounting or law practice.

He has over 19 years of experience working with early - stage companies, particularly in the technology field, concentrating his practice on corporate formation and structure, joint ventures, licensing, intellectual property protection, corporate governance, shareholder agreements, employee incentive plans, securities laws and private placements.

Four out of five respondents agree that Canada's laws for dealing with companies involved in unethical or corrupt corporate practices should be similar to those in other developed countries, so that Canadian companies are operating on a level playing field with their foreign competitors.

As I remember it (and I don't practice a lot of corporate law so I'm going on memory here), companies can't, for example, authorize dividends when it would starve them of cash to pay their debts.

The Yale Law School graduate is seen as showing genuine concern about others at the company, which raises the question: Why did he stay at a company that has come under fire for its questionable and sometimes illegal practices?

NELP is working with allies to ensure accountability by lead companies that structure their businesses without responsibility for their workers, by drafting legislation, enforcing broadly scoped labor and employment laws, and promoting employer best practices.

After Harvard Law School, he clerked for the federal court, practiced law in Boston and Washington, and ran such biotechnological companies as Biogen in CambridLaw School, he clerked for the federal court, practiced law in Boston and Washington, and ran such biotechnological companies as Biogen in Cambridlaw in Boston and Washington, and ran such biotechnological companies as Biogen in Cambridge.

I am going to weigh in, being a catholic and the whole shabang... First of all this is not infringing on anyone's right to practice their religion... Requiring insurance companies to provide contraception for women does not mean the woman has to use it or purchase it... Catholic hospitals take federal funds for their patients, therefore they are not exempt from employment laws... If the Catholic Diocese doesn't want to provide the insurance claiming religious beliefs, then they can no longer accept federal funded patients... They also know that they will be subjected to discrimination lawsuits based hiring and religious discrimination — non-catholics work there, and therefore are being denied healthcare due to catholic beliefs... Majority if not all Catholic women do, have, or had used contraception in their lifetime... God does not nor does the bible say anything about contraception, since it had not been invented yet — so this is a man - made law, made by a bunch of men, who have never had a menstrual cycle — and the pain that comes with it....

Its companies use them to browbeat and potentially bankrupt governments that introduce environmental or health - related laws they don't like, a practice Australia's productivity Commission refers to as «regulatory chill»».

For example, could a company come to the ACCC and say: «We're not sure if this particular practice falls within the law.

Prior to practicing law, Regis worked as a claims adjuster and litigation supervisor for major insurance companies.

Rubina Bhatti, project coordinator for The Network, told IRIN: «Despite laws to promote breastfeeding, companies continue unethical practices.»

The Brennan Center, alongside a coalition of law firms, state lawmakers and others on Tuesday announced they had filed a suit against the Board of Elections to end the practice of a network of limited liability companies contributing endless cash to political candidates.

He served as Law Clerk to Judge Edgar C. NeMoyer in the New York Court of Claims before entering private practice in 1985, serving as house counsel for Kemper Insurance Company until 1993.

«We have spent millions of dollars to combat the problem through law enforcement, treatment and prevention, and if those efforts have been unfairly impacted by the improper practices of pharmaceutical companies and others, we owe it to the tax payers to leave no stone unturned in recovering any unjustified costs.»

Start - Up NY specifically prohibits retail, law firms, medical billing companies, real estate brokers and management companies, medical and dental practices, restaurants, utilities and power plants from benefiting.

I do miss it, but it's not a good time for me to be in Albany,» said the father of three, who now works as the CEO of a biomedical company and still practices law.

The purchase suggests the state's top prosecutor is using software to map datasets for investigations, a common practice in both law enforcement and the private sector, though the Oct. 2 payment marks the first appearance of the French company, Linkurious, on the Open Book New York website.

Howe's testimony on Tuesday, his second day as the government's star witness, drew back the curtain on the Cuomo campaign's fundraising practices and how some donors were instructed to skirt donor laws by funneling money through limited liability companies.

In addition, the complaint claims Glenwood has a «pattern and / or practice» of failing to comply with the federal law in its design and construction of multifamily dwellings — citing several other apartment buildings built by the company, such as the Brittany on the Upper East Side and the Paramount Tower on East 39th Street, as examples.

After several years practicing law in Boston, she returned to the family business in 2004 and took on a leadership role within the company.

«It's rare to have a market that large open itself in this day and age,» said Carlos Solé, co-chair of the Latin America practice at Baker Botts LLP, a law firm that represents many energy companies.

A new study suggests that U.S. antitrust laws could hamper the efforts of companies to collaborate on sustainable and socially - responsible business practices, even as consumers and businesses increasingly value them.

Laurence Rubin, Identitas CEO and a practicing rheumatologist at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, says that his company is now shifting gears from demonstrating the utility of SNP - based microarrays for analyzing forensic samples to into more of an advocacy role, introducing law enforcement agencies to the power of these genomic technologies.

These powerful companies spend billions to ensure you will be buying their products by using dishonest business practices, rigged clinical studies showing their products in a favorable light, public relations campaigns (like the fraudulent Breast Cancer Awareness Month — started by the manufacturer of mammogram machines), articles from paid «experts» on the internet and news clips to make you believe their products are healthy and safe, and lobbying Washington to enact laws ensuring you don't have healthy alternatives to their products.

Lead the Company to embrace best practices in corporate governance and remove shareholder unfriendly By - laws.

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