Sentences with phrase «by private firms who»

Not exact matches

The strategic review will be headed by Timothy Dattels, who joined BlackBerry's board last year and is a senior partner at TPG Capital, one of the world's largest private equity firms.

Hopu is one of the longest - established private equity firms in China, founded in 2007 by Chinese rainmaker Fang Fenglei, who is also the non-executive chairman of Goldman Sachs» investment banking China joint venture, and Richard Ong, now head of RRJ Capital.

With the help of a recruiting firm, PagerDuty pursued Tejada, an experienced executive who took charge of the marketing software company Keynote Systems in 2013 after it was acquired with her help by private equity firm Thoma Bravo.

Playboy, which had gone public in 1971, was taken private again in 2011 by Mr. Hefner with Rizvi Traverse Management, an investment firm founded by Suhail Rizvi, a publicity - shy Silicon Valley investor, who has interests in Twitter, Square and Snapchat among others.

Wolf Richter is one of the very few who have described very clearly and in layman's terms the usual destiny of a retail chain purchased by a Private Equity (PE) firm: read any of his articles here about the retail meltdown and the dynamics will become depressingly similar after the third «victim».

«The majority of venture capital (VC) comes from professionally - managed public or private firms who seek a high rate of return by (typically) investing in promising startup or young businesses that have a high potential for growth but are also high risk.»

The company, formerly public but recently taken over by a private equity firm, still consciously tries to «do the right thing in the way that employees treat customers,» says Theodore Malloch, who leads Yale University's Spiritual Capital Initiative.

Schaafsma, who was appointed general manager of the UK, Ireland and Global Partners business in 2012 before becoming CEO of the company in 2015, steered the company through major restructuring after its acquisition by private equity firm Champ in 2011.

Accolade, which is 80 per cent owned by private equity firm CHAMP, has installed a new general manager into the Grant Burge Wines business in Jeff Bond, who had been chief executive of Peter Lehmann Wines for five years until it was taken over by Casella Wines in late 2014 in a $ 57 million buyout deal.

CPC is majority owned by London - based private equity firm Terra Firma who bought the business from billionaire James Packer in 2009.

He says it should hand over the keys to the United States private equity firms led by KKR & Co, who've made an enhanced $ 3.4 billion takeover bid and let them fix it up, away from the spotlight of being listed on the Australian Securities Exchange.

Helping to entice KKR, and other private equity firms, to throw a bid on the table is Mr Clarke's previous work with the close - knit global private equity firm industry who see merit in his initial plans — also revealed this week — to slash costs by $ 35 million at Treasury Wine and pump the savings into a 50 per cent boost on brand marketing.

In mid-2014 Treasury was pursued by two separate private equity firms, KKR and TPG, who made buyout overtures and did extensive due diligence inside the company but decided to withdraw after deciding they couldn't justify paying the $ 5.20 per share price tag they had originally suggested in indicative offers.

As the state swept back, it would be replaced by charities, community groups and private firms, who would club together to deliver public services.

Senior staff at private firms who are failing to deliver transport, energy or other services will be forced to attend grillings by members of the public under new legislation.

The project is to be financed by Africa Finance Corporation, Access Bank and other private investors who have already signified intention to be part of the construction, while Visible Assets Limited would be the coordinating firm.

NYC mayoral candidate Bo Dietl now admits his private - eye firm snooped on Fox News journalist Gretchen Carlson and a woman who accused Bill O'Reilly of sexual harassment in 2005 — while continuing to insist he'd never been hired by Roger Ailes to dig up dirt on reporters.

Werritty, the group's UK director, was funded by a raft of powerful businessmen including Michael Hintze, one of the Tories biggest financial backers whose hedge fund, CQS, has investments in companies that have contracts with the Ministry of Defence; Poju Zabludowicz, chairman of the Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre, who chairs a US munitions company; and the Good Governance Group, a private security firm set up by a South African businessman, Andries Pienaar, who also has an investment firm, C5 Capital, focused on the defence sector.

Bratton and wife Rikki Klieman — who last month announced that they were moving back to New York after he accepted a big - bucks job with a private security firm — were spotted dining at Fresco by Scotto Tuesday night after a full day of viewings.

An anti-corruption commission appointed by the governor, known as the Moreland Act Commission, subpoenaed state lawmakers who earn more than $ 20,000 a year from private law firms, asking to see their private client lists.

The $ 23.7 million solar project — built on a 50 - acre site leased from the Agahozo - Shalom Youth Village, established to care for children who lost parents to Rwanda's 1990s genocide — was developed by the Dutch - American firm Gigawatt Global with support from the U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corp. (OPIC), a Power Africa partner; Scatec Solar ASA of Norway, which engineered and built the solar plant; and government investment arms and development finance institutions from the Netherlands, Norway, Finland, Austria and the United Kingdom.

Gist: Co-written by Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij, this centers on a private contracting firm tasked with protecting big corporations from radical environmentalists and anti-business extremists, who tasks its best and brightest agent, Sarah Moss (Marling), to infiltrate a mysterious terrorist organization known only as «The East».

Marling also plays the main character, Sarah Moss, an ex-F.B.I. operative who finds herself recruited by Patricia Clarkson to join her top - secret private intelligence firm.

Kingsman, we learn, is a private intelligence firm, started by a group of wealthy elites whose heirs were killed during World War I and who found themselves with extra inheritance money on their hands.

The probe, by a private firm hired by the school board, found evidence that a software vendor also may have paid a commission to another woman, Mr. Hornsby's live - in girlfriend, who was a sales representative for the company.

Smarter Balanced was created by assessment professionals in state education agencies who determined that by pooling their experience and expertise — and by taking advantage of the federal funds offered by the Department of Education and working in partnership with private sector firms — they could build more sophisticated and accurate assessments of student learning than any individual state could offer on its own.

Private investment counsel is offered by divisions of the six major banks, by small boutique firms, and by institutional money managers who also handle pension funds.

Instead of borrowing from banks, credit unions, or mortgage firms who offer loans pulled from pools of circulating money, a hard money loan in Palm Springs is issued by private investors.

Wells, who was disciplined in 2010 by the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada for acting in the role of an advisor without being registered as one, considers his firm a private debt lender.

Ms. MacLear, who has run the foundation for the artist Robert Rauschenberg since 2010 and is its first chief executive, will work with Allan Schwartzman, a longtime art adviser and a member of the firm Art Agency, Partners, which was acquired by Sotheby's in January for up to $ 85 million in a high - profile move to expand its collector base and private sales at a time when its stock price was declining.

The Ten Merina 30 MW solar park is being financed by French private investment firm Meridiam, who has already financed a similar project in the country, as it looks to diversify its energy mix with all types of solar energy.

The arrival of private equity specialist Hippolyte, who is joining KWM as a partner, represents the firm's first hire in Paris since the office was rocked in March by the departure of a highly regarded six - partner private equity team, which joined Goodwin Procter.

Speaking from an introvert's point of view, it seems to me that private practice partnerships are geared towards extroverts, who are fuelled by interactions with people (whether clients or their law firm colleagues).

The recruitment of Rambatomanga, who is joined by associate Charles Ouaknine, follows the appointment of a three partner private equity team to the firm's London office earlier this year.

Private pro bono clinics, law school clinics and clinics run by legal aid organizations are the first point of face - to - face contact with the justice system for most people who don't have a law firm on personal retainer.

Gherson is a private law firm founded by Roger Gherson, working alongside top London immigration solicitors who are committed to the needs of our clients in the UK and internationally.

With more than 100 lawyers who focus on M&A, we are frequently retained by major domestic and international companies, financial institutions, private equity funds and leading international law firms to provide strategic counsel in M&A transactions.

They leave because these programs do not address the deeper reasons why women leave private practice either voluntarily or are dismissed by firms who do not see many women as potential partners.

Those of us who carry out legal research or provide legal research instruction as a regular part of our livelihoods or occupations often think of legal research in what I think of as a more traditional context: the private law firms, the corporate legal department, the government (i.e., justice departments), the courts (i.e., by court counsel and students / clerks), the law school (by or for students and professors).

However, this move by IRDA will dampen the spirits of both private sector insurance firms and investors who had betted heavily on ULIP for their future planning.

OilCoin has been co-founded by Darius Brooks who used to work previously with the private equity firm TPG.