Sentences with phrase «big global firms»

These facts, together with the brand recognition should power the really big global firms into the future.

The big global firms, with their vast resources and long experience of international transactions, make fearsome opponents... Litigators, who make up the majority of lawyers in India, are concerned for other reasons.

Not exact matches

The Edmonton - based global engineering firm recently completed its biggest acquisition ever.

«We see many international retailers reluctant to come to the U.S. [after] you've seen big retailers take longer to resonate here than elsewhere,» said David Zoba, chairman of the global retail leasing board at commercial real estate firm Jones Lang LaSalle.

Take the case of Lehman Brothers, the financial services firm that collapsed in 2008 and played a big role in the global economic downturn.

Facebook joins a long list of big - name global tech firms to significantly beef up their parental leave offerings for full - time employees in recent months, including Netflix.

«The cache of 11.5 million records shows how a global industry of law firms and big banks sells financial secrecy to politicians, fraudsters and drug traffickers as well as billionaires, celebrities and sports stars.»

The companies that will see the biggest boost are those that derive the greatest share of their revenue from Canada; bigger firms, such as WSP Global or Stantec, may not benefit as much.

«When you get resistance for a common infection, it's a big problem, which we're sort of ignoring a bit like global warming,» said Dr. Colin Broom, the CEO of Nabriva Therapeutics, a biotech firm developing a new antibiotic to treat community - acquired bacterial pneumonia.

But when it's time to scale you need to bring in a bigger firm that has global resources and relationships that can't be matched by smaller funds with less resources and staff.»

Big tech companies, global retailers, clean energy firms, food makers, agriculture conglomerates, and a couple of utilities have all signed on.

CHAMP Private Equity has agreed on a $ 1 billion deal to sell Accolade Wines — the biggest producer of Australian wine and owner of wine labels including Hardys and Grant Burge — to global buyout firm The Carlyle Group.

He's one of the few current leaders of a big global bank who reached a senior - executive rank before his firm went public.

Regulators have long worried about losing one of the Big Four global firms.

In the past, Forex — which is the world's biggest market for currency trading — was the preserve of hedge funds, global corporations and finance firms, but now individuals are trading on it over the internet.

The slump was related to higher material costs and a weaker performance among its nickel - battery products, historically the firm's biggest revenue source, because of the global slowdown and weaker power tool sales.

«The biggest winners are likely to be Asian and global financial sector firms with intra-Asia regional capabilities and a focus on securities markets, pensions, insurance, asset management, and cross-border banking,» says Anil Agarwal, head of Asian financial research.

Some of the nation's biggest investment firms such as BlackRock and State Street Global Advisors are lobbying for more women board members.

These firms lack to the scale to compete with the global giants but are too big to match the agility and flexibility of smaller firms.

Interestingly, it is the first time a big global buyout fund has teamed up with an Australian private equity firm to buy an asset.

Brent Beardsley, global head of wealth and asset management at Boston Consulting Group, says more wealth management firms with a wirehouse — or integrated broker — model are looking to increase revenues from advisers by automating advice: «If you look at the big wirehouses, you'll see the role of the adviser has changed now that portfolio management is increasingly being managed centrally.

Tyler Mordy is president and chief investment officer of Toronto - based Forstrong Global, an asset allocation firm known for its big - picture outlook.

But I respect any company that knows how to draw a line in the sand, and Apollo Global Management (NYSE: APO) is setting itself apart from competitors Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (NYSE: KKR) and The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG): By putting a limit on its pursuit of retail money, the firm is thinking of the big long - term picture, and not just the short - term dollar signs.

Tricia Hobson, the first female Chair of global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright, knows big law must prioritize diversity at all levels and across all departments if it wants to remain relevant to clients.

Airbnb's latest financing round is being led by private equity firm General Atlantic, and includes Hillhouse Capital Group, a Chinese fund manager, and Tiger Global Management, which just led a big $ 80 million financing for Postmates.

Indeed, by late February, the world's biggest ETF, the SPDR Gold Trust, which has a net balance in excess of $ 30 billion, had announced through its marketing agent State Street Global Markets that the fund had been certified by Amanie Advisors, a leading Shari'ah advisory firm, to be fully compliant to the new Shari'ah standard.

Bill Gross, the manager of the world's biggest bond fund, said the global economy risks lapsing into recession with the pace of growth falling below the «new normal» level the firm has predicted since 2009.

The deal is expected to be too small for the global firms to take a big swing at, however is expected to attract local players.

The development of the long - promised «digital era governance» was mired in a series of mega contracts: huge in terms of cost, scope and timescale, bigger than any attempted by other governments worldwide, and to be delivered by the same handful of giant global computer consulting firms that rarely saw any challenge to their grip on public contracts.

Other big - name attendees included developer William Rudin, Prudential Douglas Elliman CEO Dottie Herman, Cushman & Wakefield Chairman of Global Brokerage Bruce Mosler, Fried Frank law firm partner Jonathan Mechanic, Michael Fascitelli, president and CEO of the Vornado Realty Trust, Newmark Knight Frank CEO Barry Gosin, Peter Riguardi, president of New York operations for Jones Lang LaSalle, and real estate It - Couple Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, who recently announced that she is pregnant.

But Germany's consortium, named Projekt DEAL, plans to hold firm, and it thinks a successful outcome could help trigger what some call a «big flip,» a global transition toward open access.

«A solid, serviceable profile of Danish star architect — or «starchitect» — Bjorke Ingels as he and his firm, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), go global and begin to reach the heights of that grand, punning title» — Glenn Sumi

In 2016, global marketing research firm J.D. Power ranked RBC the best out of the Big Five banks for customer satisfaction.

I'm a big fan of going after the companies that charged upfront fees that were harmful to consumers but when you start naming companies like Global, Noteworld, Rocky Mountain Bank and LowerMyBills, you then put yourself in the category of the «et al» bottom feeder who will drag everyone and their mother into a lawsuit just to get a huge settlement that your law firm will keep.

In 2016, global marketing research firm J.D. Power ranked RBC the best out of the Big Five banks for customer satisfaction.

From The Guardian: «The connection to the chemical firm Solvay suggests opposition to action on global warming, once spearheaded by big oil, is spreading to other industries that will also be affected by proposals to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases.»

KENYA»S Energy Ministry and Canadian solar energy firm SkyPower Global are on course to sign an agreement Sunday that paves the way for the Toronto - based company to develop 1 - gigawatt of solar power in East Africa's biggest economy.

Version française ici According to a former partner at Ernst & Young, the global accountancy firm turned a blind eye when a report of major audit failures at Dubai's biggest gold refinery went unpublished.

«Both firms will be more attractive now we have a bigger proposition in the UK and we are very open minded about a global merger,» said Poole.

Rob Landry, head of global HR at Magna International and former chief operating officer at Gowling WLG Canada, is worried that law firms do not take the Big Four threat seriously and are too complacent.

He considered both global law firms and other Big Four practices and concluded that «the accounting firms with their tax depth, related advisory services and [global] reach appeared to me to be the future solution.»

Kevin Coon, managing partner of the Toronto office of global law firm Baker & McKenzie, says the Big Four are «serious competitors» and law firms can learn from them.

And while a bigger website may not necessarily be better, I do think it represents an understanding that modern global business relationships have a strong virtual component, that law firm brands are constantly in flux, and that people's opinions are altered by online exposure.

Bigger firms may want to re-examine their reliance on bank credit for funding operations - a step DLA Piper is apparently set to take according to reports (picked up by the Charon QC blog) that the global firm plans to ask US income partners to contribute capital to the firm for the first time starting next year (to the tune of up to $ 150,000 according to The Legal Ethics Forum).

«This remains a leading firm for some of the country's biggest and most high - profile transactions» (Chambers (Global 2012)

Having started his career as an attorney at Latham & Watkins LLP, a prestigious, global corporate law firm, Michael quickly realized that representing big corporations was not for him.

Rate pressures in the bigger firms also prompt some lawyers to look elsewhere if they find themselves part of a bigger, global firm.

The firm recently signed a $ 73 million contract with a big global bank to process the bank's contracts, and track non-standard clauses.

DLA Piper's ambitions to become one of the biggest global law firms in the Middle East saw it fend off stiff competition to claim the international firm of the year award.

While smaller firms and solo practitioners may not have the extensive resources or global footprint as bigger law firms may have, lawyers at smaller firms or with solo practices are often more resourceful in identifying ways to handle matters which yield the same outcome.