Sentences with phrase «against a firm based»

Chinese online retail giant Alibaba has filed a lawsuit against a firm based in Dubai accusing it of causing confusion by making use of its trademarked name and brand to raise over $ 3.5 million in an Initial Coin Offering of a digital currency called Alibabacoin (ABBC).

A Louisville resident has filed a lawsuit against a firm based in the UK in a federal court, claiming he was swindled by a cryptocurrency scam investment scheme organized by the company.

Not exact matches

• Audax Group, A Boston - based investment shop, held talks to sell a stake of itself to other PE firms, but ultimately decided against it, the Wall Street Journal reports citing sources.

Paulson & Co surged to fame a decade ago when a winning bet against the overheated housing market helped the New York - based firm pull in billions in new money to manage roughly $ 38 billion at its peak.

«We are inclined to view it as posing greater trade risk for all types of energy, particularly if other nations establish new trade barriers against U.S. products,» Washington - based research firm ClearView Energy Partners LLC said in a report Monday.

BISMARCK, N.D. — A North Carolina - based private security firm hired by Texas - based pipeline developer Energy Transfer Partners won't be banned from North Dakota, though a judge is still weighing whether TigerSwan operated illegally in the state during protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline and might be subject to fines.

«The most you can charge in Washington is $ 25,» explains lawyer Matt Zuchetto, whose firm launched a class - action lawsuit against the company on that basis.

It competes against recruiters, such as San Francisco - based Hired.com, which is looking for as many as 200 Canadian software engineers for Silicon Valley firms to hire.

In August, the investment firm Richard Bernstein Advisors compared the performance of the average investor — based on the monthly flows of money in and out of mutual funds — against a variety of stock indexes, commodities and other asset classes over a 20 - year period ending Dec. 31, 2013.

Various law firms filed a class action lawsuit last week against Westminster - based brake company Knorr - Bremse AG and its local Pennsylvania rival Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corp. on behalf of employees affected by their «no poach» agreements.

Earlier this month, Minneapolis - based law firm Nichols Kaster filed suits against American Century's $ 600 million plan and the $ 1.3 billion plan at Fujitsu Technology and Business of America, Inc..

The firm's proprietary Organizational Health Index, for example, allows companies to benchmark their own performance against a massive database of McKinsey's 600 clients worldwide — on a confidential basis, of course.

«We are disappointed to see that Uber has selected a team of insiders to investigate its destructive culture and make recommendations for change,» they wrote in an Medium post published on Thursday, referring to the fact that Holder's firm has close ties to Uber and he previously advocated against fingerprint - based background checks for Uber drivers.

On Monday, for example, news surfaced that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a complaint against a Dallas - based financial firm seeking to launch what might be the largest initial coin offering (ICO) in history.

Detroit school students, represented by the Los Angeles - based public interest firm Public Counsel, filed suit last month against the state of Michigan, claiming a legal right to literacy based on the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.

A favorite strategy that has been deployed successfully by many investors to trade indices utilizing binary options entails hedging an option based on the shares of a chosen firm against another whose underlying asset is the index that includes that company.

On March 26, a group of New York — based lawyers headed by Edward D. Fagan, who spearheaded successful suits on behalf of Holocaust survivors against European firms that collaborated with the Nazis in using concentration camp inmates as laborers, filed suit in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn against FleetBoston Financial, the insurance giant Aetna, and railroad conglomerate CSX Corporation, on the grounds that these corporations are the successors of companies that profited from slavery before the Civil War.

«I hope that my lawsuit against Chartwells and the settlement announced today will help improve the food programs for D.C.'s school children, which has always been my goal,» Mills said in a statement issued Friday by Phillips & Cohen, a District - based law firm that filed Mills's whistleblower lawsuit in 2013.

A Rochester - based law firm has filed a lawsuit against Wegmans, claiming the grocery store chain has made a series of fair credit violations.

The Staten Island congressman who was the Election Day winner for another term against Democrat Mark Murphy, has incurred $ 677,966 in legal fees from the Washington, D.C. - based law firm Patton Boggs.

He ran free or low - fare bases on local routes to push other firms out the market — a practice deemed «predatory, deplorable and against the public interest» by the Monopolies Commission.

Execs at a Brooklyn - based finance firm that fronts people cash against potential legal settlements have been spreading their own money around in Albany — with state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman...

On Wednesday and Thursday, defense attorneys hammered Howe for his years of misdeeds, including for embezzlement committed against his former employers, the Albany - based law and legal firm Whiteman Osterman & Hanna, to stiffing a long list of creditors ranging from lawyers and home contractors to a health club and even his family's dog walker.

The Joint Commission on Public Ethics settled its case against Fred Hiffa, formerly of Ostroff, Hiffa, & Associates, Inc., following allegations that he had violated the state's lobbying gift ban in 2006 by hiring Matthew Libous in 2006, retaining the Binghamton lawmaker's son for $ 4,166 a month for one year to a Westchester County - based law firm.

Elizabeth Smith of the South Carolina - based Motley Rice law firm speaks about a lawsuit against pharmaceutical companies for their alleged role in the opioid epidemic.

A Lagos - based human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, whose law firm was handling the matter, had said the actions of the security agency were against all known laws of a democratic society.

«They're now looking at how to create mixed - use developments that would include self - storage and manufacturing space,» said Michael Woloz, a lobbyist with the firm Connelly McLaughlin & Woloz who is working on behalf of a Bronx - based self - storage company to push back against the proposal.

The D.C. - based firm has been sending out fund - raising requests for Schneiderman and other emails touting actions he's taken, including against the Trump administration.

Seaman is represented by a North Carolina law firm and also by Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein (no relation to this reporter), the San Francisco - based legal powerhouse that won a $ 415 million settlement against tech giants Google, Apple, Intel, and Adobe for colluding to keep wages down by not hiring each other's workers.

«We should be standing firm against these changes before they are made and demanding that there is transparency, accountability, and a thorough evidence based assessment made of public service alternatives to this proposed dispersal of public assets into private hands,» he concludes.

On the basis of HERS and other secondary prevention trials, the American Heart Association recommended against initiating postmenopausal hormones for the secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease.43 The American Heart Association made no firm recommendation for primary prevention while awaiting the results from randomized clinical trials such as WHI, and stated that continuation of the treatment should be considered on the basis of established noncoronary benefits and risks, possible coronary benefits and risks, and patient preference.

Straighten the arm by firming the triceps muscle, and press the base of the index finger firmly against the floor.

Press your fingertips against the floor beside your hips, firm your shoulder blades against your back torso, and lift the top of your sternum (breastbone), which is just below the small hollow at the base of your throat.

The screenplay by T.S. Nowlin (based on James Dashner's book) never comes up with a firm argument against WCKD, except to point out that the organization's methods are cruel and often resort to force.

And she wants to lead a campaign against high - stakes decision - making based on test scores at the same time she firms up her union's support of the Common Core.

And lead a campaign against high - stakes decision - making based on test scores at the same time she firms up her union's support of the Common Core.

News came out this week that Hagens Berman, the same Seattle - based law firm that initiated the class action lawsuits against Apple for its role in the anti-trust violations and price fixing collusion with the now - Big Five publishers, has filed a suit against Google, alleging anti-trust violations that led the search... [Read more...]

What began life as a class action lawsuit filed by Seattle - based law firm Hagen Bermans on behalf of consumers quickly became a Department of Justice investigation against Apple and five of the Big Six publishers.

Under the proposed settlement, announced Wednesday morning, Penguin would pay $ 75 million to consumers represented by 33 states» attorneys general and by Hagens Berman, the Seattle - based law firm that filed the class action suit against Apple (s AAPL) and publishers in 2011.

And on Thursday, backed by a Chicago - based law firm, Gawronski filed suit (PDF) against Amazon in federal court, seeking class - action status.

All - Star Funds typically have at least a three year track record and compare favorably against their peers based on historical return, risk, expenses, manager tenure, performance and style consistency, asset size and growth and must be 1) structured through sound investment philosophy and process, 2) implemented with acceptable level of investment risk management strategy and 3) supported by a well - balanced investment firm.

The market takes action against firms that carry positions bigger than their funding base can handle.

All - Star Funds typically have at least a three year track record and compare favorably against their peers based on historical return, risk, expenses, manager tenure, performance and style consistency, asset size and growth and must be 1) structured through sound investment philosophy and process, 2) implemented with acceptable level of investment risk management strategy and 3) supported by a well - balanced investment firm.

Based on information General Electric was forced to disclose by environmental opponents, the firm spent at least $ 64 million - perhaps much more - campaigning against efforts to force cleanup.

The SMIT will allow the Commission to request information (including factual market data or fact - based analysis) from private firms or trade associations when the Commission initiates or substantiates infringement proceedings against one or more Member State (s) that may have failed to fulfil an obligation under the applicable Single Market legislation.

Adding to Becker's 2011 woes, Hollywood, Esq. reports that actor Bernsen has now filed a lawsuit against Innovative Legal Marketing, a Virginia - based company that provides marketing services for lawyers and law firms, because ILM has allegedly tried to pull out of an agreement to have Bernsen / Becker promote the company.

«It's always struck me as necessary in a market with a fragmented supplier base of traditional firms which is likely to be up against ABSs owned and driven by high street brands.»

[24] This reporting is borne out in lawsuits brought by former woman partners against, for example, the Richmond, Virginia based law firm of LeClairRyan, [25] and, in another lawsuit, the Miami, Florida based law firm of Greenberg Traurig.

You need to choose specific objectives for each component, identify the metrics by which you'll measure progress against these objectives, and assign a senior person within your firm to monitor their implementation and report the results to the firm's leadership on a regular basis.

The AmLaw Daily reports today that an insurance company has sought to compel arbitration against a prominent Los Angeles based firm over the reasonableness of its fees handling a toxic tort matter.