Sentences with phrase «firms is bidding»

# 2: RFPs / bidding process: An important element in legal project management for law firms is bidding on work through the RFP process.

If May is serious about her distain for corporate greed, she should be apoplectic with rage at what happened here and would provide suggestions for how to prevent it happening again where firms were bidding for public contracts.

Announcement is made on the consolidated tape that a firm is bidding to purchase a number of shares.

WSJ.com legal editor Ashby Jones discusses why law firms are bidding to take on «pro bono» cases.

Not exact matches

Bon - Ton did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment on the store closures but announced in a press release Wednesday that the liquidation firms» bid had been approved by the US Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.

Other players weighing joint or solo bids are media company Time Inc. and several private equity firms including Blackstone Group LP and KKR & Co..

• Cambuhy Investimentos and GP Investments are among investment firms considering a bid for Alpargatas SA (BOVESPA: ALPA4), a Brazil - based clothing and accessories manufacturer, according to Reuters.

This week, JP Morgan upped its bid from $ 2 a share to $ 10 a share, meaning that the punishment meted out to Bear stockholders for the firm's reckless behavior is much less draconian.

TechCrunch's Michael Arrington is reporting that an investor group consisting of venture capital and private equity firms are combining resources to make a bid to acquire the Internet phone company from eBay.

Crucially, Alaskan firms aren't subject to the limits on no - bid contracts that apply to other 8 (a) s. And while the CEO of a regular 8 (a) must be a «disadvantaged» individual, the Alaskans are free to hire whomever they choose to run the business — and usually their choices are rich with experience in government contracting, particularly at the Pentagon.

Indeed, produce apps or wireless solutions, or do other quick - turnaround projects for other firms are now at a significant advantage when bidding on contracts.

The proposal kicked off a bidding war for Warrnambool, however, and another Australian dairy company stated it would be in the «national interest» for its own proposal to be given full consideration before the Montreal firm's offer moves ahead.

Though the philanthropy under Bill Gates» name has partnered with cryptocurrency firm Ripple in a bid to help the unbanked, the world's second richest man said Tuesday that the main feature of Bitcoin and its ilk is not a «good thing.»

However, when the government oversteps these bounds and threatens or bribes private firms to do its bidding, there is bound to be trouble, as the distinction between what is public and what is private becomes blurred.

Service firms are getting into the act too: «Beth Harshfield, the owner of Exhibit Arts, an advertising and marketing company in Wichita, Kan., said she started bidding on military contracts six years ago because «I got tired of the local economy kicking the legs out from under us.»

«In the short - term, fewer firms will be able to bid on construction projects if they are concerned they will not have enough workers to meet demand,» he said in a statement.

Emaar Malls» bid has so far not been accepted by Souq.com shareholders, the Dubai - listed firm said in a stock exchange announcement on Monday.

The start - up founder had, it seems, conceived of his postings as a way to help other company founders understand what a funding round looks like from the inside, and the effect was that the investment firms began bidding against one another.

The issue is potentially compounded by a legal exemption that allows such firms to avoid a rule that they first put the work out to bid for U.S. workers.

Scott Tranter, a founder of the data - analytics firm Optimus who was on the data team for Republican Sen. Marco Rubio's 2016 presidential bid, told Business Insider that the psychographic modeling that Cambridge Analytica touted «isn't proven science» and that that was at least partially why some thought the service was nothing special.

Closed - shop rules imposed by the carpenters» union dictate public tendering policies, and so most future municipal construction contracts can only be bid by approved union firms, dramatically reducing the number of eligible bidders.

Some private equity firms that had made it through to the second round will not be invited to submit third - round bids, another of the people said.

In 2010, in a letter to the board of Novell, he boasted of earning one of the company's IT certifications when he was 14 — a charming bit of common ground that shared the pages with a hostile bid to buy the firm.

The salesperson is looking for a firm bid.

The Waterloo, Canada - based tech company announced today that Fairfax Financial Holdings, the investment firm that proposed the takeover bid but was unable to raise the necessary funds, will instead invest $ 1 billion in BlackBerry.

The private - equity firm will pay $ 157 a share in cash for Buffalo Wild Wings, which is 34 % above the company's closing stock price on November 13, the day before Roark's initial bid of $ 150 a share.

After naming long - time fashion industry veteran Paula Schnieder as its new CEO last week, the company is now evaluating a proposed takeover bid, reportedly from the private equity firm Irving Place Capital.

However, this morning the U.S. botox firm Allergan pulled out of making a competing bid, after its shares fell 6 % on the news that it was considering it.

A group of well known venture capital and large private equity firms are pooling resources to make a bid to acquire eBay - owned Skype, according to a source close to the deal.

Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, were also reportedly in talks with several private equity firms earlier this year to make a bid for the company.

Barclays Capital was hired last year to conduct a sale of a minority interest in the company, including all or a portion of Chris's shares (the bidding was code - named «Project Amethyst»), and various private - equity and strategic firms have considered buying them.

Carlyle trumped bids from fellow American buyout firm TPG and European investor PAI Partners, and the deal was subsequently increased to include full control of Accolade.

The operational requirements and financial characteristics of agency MBS are complex, and since the New York Fed did not yet have expertise in this area, four external investment management firms were selected, through a competitive bidding process, to assist in implementing the purchase program.

Anthony Scaramucci is heading back to SkyBridge, the investment firm he founded, after HNA dropped its bid.

HOUSTON, March 8 Royal Dutch Shell Plc and U.S. private equity firm Blackstone Group LP are working on a joint $ 10 billion bid for BHP Billiton Plc's U.S. shale assets, Sky News said on Thursday.

Starwood Hotels & Resorts has received a rival takeover bid worth about $ 14 billion from a group of investors led by a Chinese firm that's been quite active in buying up U.S. hotel properties, including the Waldorf - Astoria.

Mr. Asper, working with New York investment bank Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and private equity firm Catalyst Capital Group, launched a rival bid at the last minute, but was turned down by on Ontario judge.

But other sources have also said INCJ is in talks with Bain Capital about bidding for the unit, as the U.S. private equity firm appears willing to put in more money than rivals.

The highest reported bid so far is one from U.S. chipmaker Broadcom and its partner, U.S. private equity firm Silver Lake.

Firms including Blackstone, Bain Capital and KKR are bidding for the group in three separate consortia, Reuters reported.

Bellevue, Washington - based Eddie Bauer, with about 370 stores in the United States and Canada, was acquired out of bankruptcy by buyout firm Golden Gate Capital in 2009 with a cash bid of $ 286 million.

INCJ was part of a proposed bid tabled by U.S. chipmaker Western Digital last week that also included U.S. private equity firm KKR & Co LP, sources familiar with the matter have said.

For example, Mississauga's engineering firm Hatch signed a joint venture agreement with a subsidiary of the China Communications and Construction Company (which ranked No. 110 in the 2016 Fortune 500) in 2016, and is now well - positioned to bid for emerging projects.

The private equity firm is reported to be plotting a three - headed bid for the Italian airline.

HOUSTON (Reuters)- Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSa.L) and U.S. private equity firm Blackstone Group LP (BX.N) are working on a joint $ 10 billion bid for BHP Billiton Plc's (BLT.L) U.S. shale assets, Sky News said on Thursday.

LONDON / FRANKFURT (Reuters)- Swiss food giant Nestle and the private equity owners of German drug firm Stada are both preparing tentative bids for Merck KgaA's consumer health unit, several sources told Reuters.

The $ 200 bln telecom firm's earnings met expectations, but rivals are otherwise engaged bidding for media companies.

Shire is also expected to agree to an extension of a Wednesday regulatory deadline that would allow Takeda to carry out more due diligence and firm up its bid.

The new front runner for the division of investment management is an attorney from the law firm that represented the Winklevoss twins in their bid for their bitcoin ETF.

Blackstone Group LP and CVC Capital Partners Ltd. agreed to buy Paysafe Group Plc for about $ 3.9 billion last week and Permira and Nordic Capital are among buyout firms considering bids for Nets A / S, the Danish payment - services provider.