Sentences with phrase «by a larger firm in»

You can't tell who's going to be bought out by a larger firm in five years or who'll simply fold in ten.

Every year, the Law Times releases numbers on how many lawyers are employed by the largest firms in Canada.

Not exact matches

With big repercussions, according to an analysis by Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, one of the largest law firms in the US.

Today, so - called Amazonians occupy more office space in Seattle than the next 40 largest employers in the city combined, according to a study by real - estate data firm CoStar for the Seattle Times last year.

The rise of companies like Uber and Instacart is only part of a larger trend in the ways Americans work, away from full - time employment and toward «contingent» freelance jobs, according to a new study by financial services company Intuit and consulting firm Emergent Research.

In 2011, efforts by American Airlines Group Inc. to elude the distribution firms by providing its own schedule and fare data directly to larger online travel agencies triggered a series of lawsuits over access to such data.

China is the world's largest gaming market by revenue, and is expected to account for roughly 25 percent of global game sales in 2017, according to research firm NewZoo.

The bust tops a high - seas seizure of 7.6 metric tons of cocaine made in 1999, and the operation follows a bust in December of 6 metric tons of cocaine also in Algeciras, the Mediterranean's largest port and a transshipment hub used by firms to unload cargo and redistribute it in Europe or the Middle East.

HK] filed for a Hong Kong initial public offering on Thursday that could raise $ 10 billion and become the largest listing by a Chinese technology firm in almost four years.

How it will be interpreted in practice by accounting firms, large corporations, small businesses and individuals is another story altogether.

Recently, Equilar, a research firm that focuses on board recruitment, put together a Gender Diversity Index and predicts that the board of directors on the Russell 3000 list — the 3000 largest companies based in the United States — will achieve parity, with a membership made up of 50 percent women and 50 percent men, by the fourth quarter of 2055.

Three days later this week, in China, news surfaced that the country has removed from a central government purchase list some of the largest U.S tech firms implicated in the very affairs revealed by Snowden, including most notably Cisco Sistems (CSCO), but also Apple Inc (AAPL), Citrix Systems (CSTX), and Intel's (INTC) McAfee security business.

Beset by labour disputes and an inability to adapt to changing markets, the country's largest firms merged in 1968 as British Leyland before being nationalized in 1975.

Had the deal closed, the sale of a half - interest in the Cutbank Ridge shale gas play would have been the largest investment of any kind by a Chinese state - controlled firm in Canada and the biggest reason to expect to see Asia - bound liquefied natural gas tankers docking on the West Coast in the not - too - distant future.

But if you already offer health insurance, as do more than 90 percent of large companies, things may look worse than they really are, according to a new study conducted by ADP, a large benefit and payroll processing firm based in Roseland, New Jersey.

Adapting services to include new digital platforms is a key focus for the major players in Perth's communications sector led by Cannings Purple, which has maintained its top spot on the Business News ranking of the state's largest public and investor relations firms.

But that commitment to quality allowed his company, Wolf Steel — and later the Napoleon brand, introduced by the firm in 1981 — to evolve into Barrie's largest manufacturer, with an impressive array of products distributed to customers in 34 countries.

The firm reached $ 17 million in annual revenue before being acquired by California Cryobank, one of the world's largest sperm banks, in a multimillion - dollar deal in December.

One senior manager at a large accounting firm in Ottawa who asked not to be named recommends asking for drafts of reports being prepared by perfectionists.

NAFTA leveled the playing field by letting small firms export to Mexico at the same cost as the large firms and by eliminating the requirement that a business establish a physical presence in Mexico in order to do business there.

According to a 2013 survey by staffing firm Robert Half International, accountants in a managerial role at large companies in Canada can make between $ 77,000 and $ 101,500 per year.

Founded more than two centuries ago by small medicines vendor and namesake Chobei Takeda in Osaka, Japan, the company was that nation's largest pharmaceutical firm by revenue as of 2014.

With a dozen employees jammed into an industrial space in Toronto's west end, the firm is hiring (it expects to have 20 employees by year - end) and looking for larger premises.

Private equity firms have been keen investors in businesses that help companies cut costs by outsourcing large parts of their administrative functions, since such operations can generate strong cash flows.

Rethink Impact is the largest venture capital firm in the U.S. focused on woman founders, according to Forbes, which is incredibly impactful for female founders who aren't being recognized by most venture capitalists.

Despite a top - heavy VC market in the U.S. dominated by a handful of large players, there are a lot of smaller, active, up - and - coming VC firms in the U.S. that ought to be paid attention to.

«E-commerce creates the potential for even the smallest local firm to sell globally and, in so doing, creates an environment in which the benefits of trade can be shared by all Canadian firms, and not accrue to just large multinational firms,» the report says.

The approach comes at a time of renewed interest by large drugmakers in smaller biotech firms, with U.S. - based Celgene clinching a deal to buy Impact Biomedicines for up to $ 7 billion on Sunday and Japan's Takeda Pharmaceutical agreeing last week to buy another Belgian biotech group TiGenix for $ 630 million.

But this conceals the strikingly different fortunes of integrated dealers (larger firms, including those owned by the Big Six banks, that do business across the country and in multiple business lines) and so - called boutiques.

It was before Federal Reserve chairwoman Janet Yellen broke the customary sphinxlike silence of her office to observe that valuations in some tech categories have become «substantially stretched,» before the tech sector eclipsed financial services as the leading destination for elite business school graduates, and before tech money made over large swaths of New York City, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Austin, and, of course, the entire San Francisco Bay Area, where one in five working adults is employed by a tech firm.

The firm said in a January 30 letter to investors that its largest collective short position is companies that it thinks will be negatively impacted by a slowdown in the smartphone market.

It was conceived in 2005 by Louis Foreman, founder of a large product - development firm, and Michael Cable, a former Fox News journalist.

While sales and revenue grow, the number of composite businesses in this industry is predicted to decline by 3 percent through 2016 as smaller firms consolidate or become independent advisers helping larger companies.

Bengaluru: Another mutual fund, this time one managed by US - based investment firm Vanguard Group, has marked down the value of shares it holds in India's largest e-commerce firm Flipkart Ltd..

In the mid-1990s, O'Brien McGarey, president of the Dye Design Group, a prominent golf course design firm in Colorado, said he was hired by Hainan Airlines to assess a large plot near Haikou, with plans to build a golf course and villaIn the mid-1990s, O'Brien McGarey, president of the Dye Design Group, a prominent golf course design firm in Colorado, said he was hired by Hainan Airlines to assess a large plot near Haikou, with plans to build a golf course and villain Colorado, said he was hired by Hainan Airlines to assess a large plot near Haikou, with plans to build a golf course and villas.

Singapore is now growing faster than Switzerland and is set to become the largest cross-border financial center in the world by 2028, the firm forecasts.

Goldman Sachs for example paid $ 550 million, the largest penalty for a Wall Street firm and the second largest in SEC history, second only to the $ 750 million paid by WorldCom.

A case in point is SoftBank's initial investment in e-commerce firm Snapdeal which was followed by a larger investment in market leader Flipkart when it realised that the former could not play catch - up.

Songa's biggest shareholder, Perestroika, owned by Norwegian investor Frederik Wilhelm Mohn, would become the largest shareholder in Transocean as a result of the acquisition with a stake of about 12 percent, the firms said.

by Trevor Hunnicutt and Olivia Oran (Reuters)- BlackRock, the world's biggest asset manager, slashed the amount it paid out in commissions to Wall Street firms for research by more than half for its largest mutual fund over the last two years, according to filings.

Attorney Jason Roberts, CEO of the Pension Resource Institute, a compliance consulting firm, says his large broker - dealer clients tend to manage retirement plans by teaming advisors who are not specialists in retirement plans with those who are.

Earlier this month, Business Standard reported that Ola was accused of commercial espionage by a local Sri Lankan cab - hailing firm PickMe, which runs the largest cab service in the island nation.

The firm's website explains that by using its newly unveiled service, companies interested in holding a token offering can «Access a large range of securities & compliance capabilities by conducting token sales through a registered broker dealer and [Financial Industry Regulatory Authority] registered funding portal.»

This measure is described in a recent article in Caixin, which describes a meeting held by the CSRC involving the heads of China's 21 largest brokers: «The firms announced in a joint statement that to stabilize the stock market they would spend at least 120 billion yuan combined to buy exchange - traded funds linked to blue - chip stocks listed on the Shenzhen and Shanghai bourses.

Now a consultant to venture capital firms, Bloom expects large companies to shift away from investing directly in R&D, focusing instead on acquiring startups and spinning off experimental projects that will be less constrained by bureaucracy and Wall Street demands.

The Tacoma Mall is owned by Simon Property Group, the world's largest retail real estate landlord with $ 100 billion in assets, according to Green Street Advisors, a real estate research firm.

So, a number of firms large and small have made changes to their fee structure in part of fiduciary rule this was a rule crafted by the Obama administration and came into effect last April.

The program has also partnered with The Working Group, a top web and mobile development shop in Toronto; Media Profile, one of Canada's most successful public relations firms; Global Accelerator Network, an international alliance of organizations that operate accelerator programs, championed by TechStars; and Postmedia Network Inc., the largest publisher of English daily newspapers in Canada.

Between cheaper office costs and lower employee remuneration, firms located in large centres can get priced out of the market by their Southwestern Ontario competition, if geographic proximity is not vitally important.

ActionCOACH, the world's largest business coaching firm, was established and founded in Brisbane, Australia by Brad Sugars in 1993 when the concept of business coaching was still in its infancy.