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After failing to receive a response, DiNapoli filed suit against the firm in Delaware, seeking to examine corporate accounts for contributions to non-profits that do not report their donors.

Yaworski, a former income (non-equity) partner at Gowlings, launched legal action against the firm in 2011 seeking compensation for services provided in 2008 and 2009.

Not exact matches

Yogen Früz and Yogurty's, the frozen yogurt chains founded by brothers Michael and Aaron Serruya, and a related firm called International Franchise Inc., filed a suit in the Federal Court of Canada against Freshii in June.

In November, the digital ad platform AppNexus said that it was banning Breitbart from using its ad tools because the site promoted racism and content that might incite violence, which was against the firm's rules.

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.

«Because a relationship is only as strong as the reality we have it, I'm a firm believer of letting our partners in on the realities that we feel we are up against in life,» breakup expert and founder of Breakupward Chelsea Leigh Trescott told INSIDER.

«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.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission's authority to take enforcement actions against firms dealing in digital currencies was upheld in court.

«By taking the pledge, Senator Gillibrand is taking a firm stand against Big Money,» ECU President Tiffany Muller said in a statement announcing the group's endorsement of Gillibrand.

In April 2016, he filed suit against the CEO and chairman of Acerus Pharmaceuticals, which Melynk co-founded in 2008, alleging that while he was incapacitated by illness in 2015, they ruined the firIn April 2016, he filed suit against the CEO and chairman of Acerus Pharmaceuticals, which Melynk co-founded in 2008, alleging that while he was incapacitated by illness in 2015, they ruined the firin 2008, alleging that while he was incapacitated by illness in 2015, they ruined the firin 2015, they ruined the firm.

State actions against investment adviser firms nearly doubled in 2011, NASAA says.

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.

First, the Trump administration ramps up coercive action against North Korea, and this precipitates a crisis in US - China relations,» the firm wrote.

«KPCB discriminates against [Ellen Pao] and other women by failing to promote them comparably to men, by compensating them less than men through lower salary, bonus and carried interest, by restricting the number of investments that women are allowed to make as compared to men, by failing to include junior women from meetings and discussions, by failing to provide equivalent sponsorship of women as of men, by failing to include junior women comparably to junior men in the interview process, and by failing to provide opportunities for visibility and success inside and outside the firm for women as compared to men.»

Key - employee insurance indemnifies you against losses resulting from the death or disability of a key employee in your firm, including yourself or your partners.

According to a lawsuit Quenneville filed later against Stanton, he was «abruptly and abusively» terminated in a phone call in 2011, and was told by O'Brien that the firm was downsizing as a result of difficult market conditions.

Cohen said he also filed a second defamation suit against political intelligence firm Fusion GPS, which compiled the dossier, in federal court.

The study compared the compound annual growth rate of a Family Index of 23 companies — in which at least 30 % of voting control belonged to a family with multi-generational involvement in the ownership or management — against 412 widely held firms over a 15 - year period (1998 to 2012).

The loonie's plunge below 70 cents against the U.S. dollar in mid-January was bad news for energy companies but will boost the competitiveness of our high - tech firms.

On Monday, barely a week after China voted in favor of tough new United Nations sanctions against North Korea, the Trump administration launched an investigation into whether China is pirating the intellectual property of American firms under Section 301 of the 1974 Trade Act.

Local IT firm Empired has decided against declaring a dividend payout to its shareholders, despite reporting a 135 per cent surge in net profit for the 2015 financial year.

The list includes a couple of the firms that shared in the windfall from holding out and litigating against Argentina.

«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.

Governments will likely impose more reporting obligations on social media firms in the fight against terror financing, according to Ryder.

HOUSTON / CARACAS, April 23 - Two Chevron Corp. employees detained in Venezuela last week could be charged with treason for refusing to sign a parts contract for a joint venture with state - owned oil company PDVSA, according to two sources familiar with draft charges against the U.S. firm's executives.

The next day that firm filed two lawsuits against Diageo, one in federal court, raising a suite of traditional trademark and unfair business practices claims, but the other in New York State Supreme Court, seeking a permanent injunction under a seldom - used statute available only to charitable organizations, known as Section 135 of the New York General Business Law.

Paul Weiss is the same corporate law firm that conducted last year's internal investigation into sexual harassment allegations against Roger Ailes, which resulted in the former Fox News chairman's resignation.

On April 6, it announced sanctions against Deripaska and his eight companies, along with other Russian individuals and firms, in response to what the United States called «malign activities» by Russia.

MOSCOW / LONDON, April 23 (Reuters)- In December, as news reports emerged about potential new U.S. sanctions against Russia, aluminium magnate Oleg Deripaska instructed advisers to draw up contingency plans, according to people close to the businessman and his firms.

Pishevar said he would focus on identifying «who is responsible for spreading false rumors about me» and pursuing a defamation lawsuit he filed in November against political research firm Definers Public Affairs, its founder Matt Rhoades and president Joe Pounder.

The auditor, agreeing to the SEC's first antifraud injunction against a major firm in more than 20 years, also paid a $ 7 million fine to close the complaint.

With $ 716 million in funding, the Milpitas, California, firm specializes in IoT - connected window installations that can be programmed to tint against sun glare and to reduce ambient heat — all controlled through a proprietary app.

MOSCOW / LONDON, April 23 - In December, as news reports emerged about potential new U.S. sanctions against Russia, aluminium magnate Oleg Deripaska instructed advisers to draw up contingency plans, according to people close to the businessman and his firms.

The change is a win for Wintergreen Advisers LLC, a firm run by activist investor David Winters, who despite a tiny stake in Coke, has loudly agitated against the stock - compensation plan, saying it was a «raw deal» for investors.

Influential shareholder advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) had advised shareholders to vote against the remuneration policy, expressing concern about planned increases in fixed pay.

Two Chevron employees detained in Venezuela last week could be charged with treason for refusing to sign a parts contract for a joint venture with state - owned oil company PDVSA, according to two sources familiar with draft charges against the U.S. firm's executives.

Chanos, known for his big bet against Enron before it collapsed in 2001, said Thursday his firm has been concerned about the «rent seekers» in the U.S. health - care system who he alleges are ripping off the system.

«Though the vast majority of Americans think it is wrong and should be against the law, [most state] laws do not protect the LGBT workforce from this kind of discrimination,» Peter Romer - Friedman, an attorney with Cohen Milstein, a law - firm in Washington, D.C., says.

South Korea said on Wednesday it will take firm action against illegal and unfair acts in cryptocurrency trading after a petition with 280,000 signatures was sent to the presidential Blue House.

When James Lawrence and Iain Evans, two European partners, told Bain in 1983 that they were going to start their own firm, Bain stalled them in his office long enough for a deputy sheriff of Suffolk County to arrive with a notice that Bain & Co. had filed a lawsuit against them.

Pao is seeking $ 16 million in damages from Kleiner and alleges she was retaliated against after having an affair with another partner at the firm.

Ravikant became something of a celebrity in the Valley when he led a shareholder lawsuit against the firm that had invested in his prior company, Epinions.com.

David Sanford, chairman of Sanford Heisler Sharp, the law firm that argued the largest - ever employment gender discrimination case to go to trial — a class action suit against Novartis Pharmaceuticals that resulted in a $ 253 million jury award for plaintiffs in 2010, reduced post-trial to $ 175 million — noted that in that case, the company had just three investigators for a workforce of thousands.

A former junior partner at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, Pao lost a high - profile gender discrimination suit against the venture capital firm in March.

Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro, a consumer rights action law firm that also represented consumers in a recent $ 400 million lawsuit against Apple (aapl) for price fixing, filed the New York lawsuit.

Breen and Dow CEO Andrew Liveris have vowed to cut R&D and break the combined company into three smaller firms, leaving it a weakened player in a competition against global chemical giants like Germany's BASF and Bayer, and China's Sinopec and Sinochem.

Whether you look at straight demographic statistics, listen to the testimony in the recent sexual harassment suit against storied VC firm Kleiner Perkins, or talk to female founders about their experiences fundraising, the picture you get of the industry's openness to women isn't the rosiest.

The woman behind a high - profile gender bias lawsuit against a major Silicon Valley venture capital firm testified Monday that a male colleague was «relentless» in his pursuit of her and cut her out of email chains and meetings when she broke off their affair.

The company will probably have to be removed as a co-defendant in the lawsuits where it is named, meaning that those currently suing may never see a payout from the production house (in general, bankruptcies effectively end lawsuits against firms going bust).

Faced with the stock's rapid ascent, short sellers on Thursday covered $ 250 million in bets against Apple, bringing the total reduction in Apple short interest this week to $ 600 million, according to S3 Partners, a financial analytics firm.