Sentences with phrase «at a major firm in»

Originally from Scotland, Neil graduated from law schools at the University of Aberdeen and the University of Cambridge, and practiced law at a major firm in Scotland, before moving to Hughes Hubbard in 2001.

«I had been working at a major firm in Australia on a traditional career path in litigation.

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Patrick Soon - Shiong, the controversial Los Angeles billionaire and the richest doctor in the world, is pursuing some major cost - cutting at NantHealth, a cancer - focused firm that's bleeding money.

Dan Morehead, founder and CEO of Pantera Capital, a hedge fund that specializes in cryptocurrencies, says his firm trades on all the major online exchanges, but will turn to a trading outfit, like Circle's, when the desk posts prices «at a discount to the market.»

A Google artificial intelligence program defeated a Chinese grand master at the ancient board game Go on Tuesday, a major feather in the cap for the firm's AI ambitions as it looks to woo Beijing to gain re-entry into the country.

«The marketplace is incapable of supplying us with drivers,» grumbles Norman Schultz, director of recruitment and retention at TransX, a major trucking firm based in Winnipeg.

Joe Zinner, a veteran recruiter who runs a boutique search firm in Toronto and worked at Odgers from 1999 to 2002, says the departures followed a decade of growing frustration with Odgers» Toronto head office, which had been trying to dictate business priorities and leaving the regions out of major national decisions.

LONDON — The staggering ascent in the Swiss franc, one of the most acute moves in decades by a major currency, has hurt financial firms around the world, with at least two brokerages going out of business.

However, at nearly 63 times current earnings - a whopping p / e ratio, to be sure - even if the firm were to grow its profit to the level of Berkshire - $ 8.5 billion - it would still lack the liquid assets and marketable securities the house that Warren Buffett built has, and it would not have a diversified income stream, making it far more vulnerable to changes in the competitive landscape; a major concern when you contemplate that Google operates in an industry where dramatic shifts consumer behavior can happen overnight.

The investing firm at the center of seemingly every major tech deal now has more help to deal with the barrage of interest in its every move.

Not one executive of any major Wall Street firm that caused the financial crash in 2008 through fraudulent activities was prosecuted by the U.S. Justice Department — which was headed at the time by law partners from Covington & Burling — the Big Tobacco law firm that was singled out in a Federal Court decision for hiding the deadly effects of cigarette smoke for decades.

Goldman is the latest big bank ensnared in a multiyear scandal where currency traders at major Wall Street firms got caught using electronic chat rooms to talk about their customers» orders.

As Ron Hira, an Economic Policy Institute research associate and an associate professor of public policy at Howard University outlines in this blog for the Economic Policy Institute: «These two India - based IT firms specialize in outsourcing and offshoring, are major publicly traded companies with a combined market value of about $ 115 billion, and are the top two H - 1B employers in the United States.

Demand for students with business and technical majors continues to be high among employers with employers stating the following majors are the most in - demand at their firms:

According to Flint, the $ 150 million in capital commitments that NFX has locked down come from major foundations, endowments, funds of funds, as well as 50 founders and investors who work at venture firms.

A former corporate lawyer, Barbara graduated from Stanford Law School and practiced securities litigation at a major law firm in New York City.

At MFS, we plan for succession at all levels within the investment team and also for transitions in the management ranks across all of the major functional areas of the firm including Distribution, Legal and CompliancAt MFS, we plan for succession at all levels within the investment team and also for transitions in the management ranks across all of the major functional areas of the firm including Distribution, Legal and Compliancat all levels within the investment team and also for transitions in the management ranks across all of the major functional areas of the firm including Distribution, Legal and Compliance.

Ian Stock's career spans thirty - plus years in the US and Europe, working at major law firms and independently.

Tungsten Mining reported last month it was raising $ 20 million by issuing new shares priced at 34c, with shares in the company being strongly bought in the months following an MoU being signed with major Chinese tungsten firm Xiamen Tungsten Co in November last year.

Estimates are based on the analysis of various elements related to the ad spending market, including macro-level economic conditions; historical trends of the advertising market; historical trends of each medium in relation to other media; reported revenues from major ad publishers; estimates from other research firms; data from benchmark sources; consumer media consumption trends; consumer device usage trends; and eMarketer interviews with executives at ad agencies, brands, media publishers and other industry leaders.

Previously, he worked for a major food manufacturer based in New Jersey and held a role at another firm as a food broker.

Vanguard survey of parallel market exchange rate in major cities shows that while there were slight increases in demand for foreign exchange, the Naira remained firm at N295 per dollar.

He was also overheard at the Capitol boasting about «how many millionaires I've made in Buffalo the past few months,» an apparent reference to Innate Immunotherapeutics, an Australian firm in which Collins is a major investor.

Adding to Flanagan's woes, the source said, is the fact that the city's real - estate industry, long a major contributor to the Senate GOP, has become skittish about contributing to the business - friendly lawmakers in the wake of revelations involving Glenwood Management, the powerful real - estate firm owned by Leonard Litwin, at the corruption trials of both Skelos and former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D - Manhattan).

Ironically, while Hinton joined a firm with a long list of major business clients, she maintains a hostile - to - the - private - sector posture in a self - description on her personal Twitter page: «Taking on big oil, big banks & other big bullies one tweet at a time in Washington DC & New York.»

The selection of a consortium of engineering firms responsible for overseeing a slew of capital projects at Rye Playland marks a major step forward in actualizing renovations at the outdated amusement park.

The one - day conference will feature business and economic development leaders, including Gary Patton, the chief technology officer at GlobalFoundries, and Jim Feldhan, president of Semico Research, a major semiconductor consulting firm based in Phoenix.

(In fact, Silver is paid at least $ 350,000 a year to be of counsel to Weitz & Luxenberg, a major plaintiffs» firm.)

The charges against both former leaders stemmed, in part, from their interactions with executives at Glenwood Management, a real estate development firm and major political donor that is heavily interested in rent regulations and the 421 - a property tax subsidy program.

Researchers of the study - published in the latest issue of Journal of General Management - conducted extensive interviews with senior individuals at ten major London - based national and international executive search firms to find out how they identify suitable candidates for CEO posts.

«It underpins everything that goes on in industry,» says one senior executive at a major electronics firm.

If your goal were to land a job in business development at a major biotech company, and you are offered a job in that firm as a scientist, don't change your ultimate goal, but be flexible about the path you can take to get there.

* When I was at a law firm, I kept an e-mail in my drafts folder to track major developmental things I was doing.

I spent a semester working full time for a firm in Boston and everyone came in at 8 or 9, skipped lunch and was out no later than 6 pm nearly every night (unless there was a major project; the latest anyone other than me was there was 8 pm and BOY did she whine about it).

I was a Politics Major and very interested in working at a think tank in Washington D.C. Sophie: I was an associate at a consulting firm in Washington DC.

Woo Lee - kyung worked at a major law firm as a secretary when she fell head - over-heels in love with Byun - hyuk, a rising star attorney in the firm.

Over the course of his 25 - year career, Mattox has: * written numerous articles for The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, USA TODAY, and other major publications; * spoken at educational conferences in Geneva, Prague, Rome, and Vatican City; * led writing workshops at Duke, Vanderbilt, the University of Virginia, and other major universities; * served as a speechwriter for several Members of Congress in Washington, D.C.; * directed a documentary film and a number of other media projects, including a public service ad campaign that ran in Rolling Stone; and * spearheaded a number of quantitative and qualitative research projects, working closely with polling firms, focus group organizers, and «think tank» scholars.

Success recently parted ways with its public relations officers at Mercury — the third major PR firm that Success has cycled through in the last two years.

To begin with, we are a registered US firm with our Corporate office and Principal Place of business in United States at 2525, Mississippi 1, Greensville, MS (Mississippi), 38701, Annie R. Major, United States of America.

In fact, over a decade ago my situation was reversed — I supported my husband quite well (I was a corporate attorney at a major law firm) for four years while he went back to school and completed an electrical engineering degree.

I don't assume majors will control the digital channels at all, in fact they'll play second fiddle to major tech firms and others who do.

Sandy — exactly, which is why I formed my own publishing company, hired a professional book designer, editors, and a PR firm — all of which led to a good Kirkus review, «free» book reviews in two major newspapers, two front - page newspaper articles, book signings at prominent book sellers, the book becoming a «Hot New Release» on Amazon, and the book enjoying best - seller status on Amazon going on four months.

As pioneers in virtual book tours, we are the model among publicity firms at harnessing the Internet for book publicity — a major tool in marketing any book.

Sara is an attorney who has worked as an associate at a major New York law firm as well as acted as in - house counsel both for book publishers and at nationally distributed magazine.

After this, I had many people start asking for my help, but I couldn't do it because of licensing — and so I started looking at every major financial firm in Boston to determine where I could send these potential clients to.

Q: Why do you suppose so few people in risk management, and senior management at major financial firms, were unwilling to consider alternative views of the sustainability of the risks being taken as the risks got larger and larger relative to the equity of individual companies, the industry as a whole, and the economy as a whole?

I sometimes invest in Chinese firms headquartered in the U.S. or elsewhere if they are listed on a major exchange, but I would advise caution and to invest in Chinese net - nets at your own discretion.

The structure of the investment company industry is such that the funds you should consider most seriously are the ones about which you hear the least: small, nimble, independent entities with skilled managers who — in many cases — have left major firms in disgust at the realization that the corporation's needs were going to trump their investors» needs.

Unlike other major brokerage firms in Canada which use third party clearing systems, at Virtual Brokers, we use the most current proprietary system «PARIO».

Here at the Southern California Bankruptcy Law Firm of Doan Law, we pride ourselves in providing outstanding legal representation to those unfairly being taken advantage of by major credit organizations.