Sentences with phrase «lead negotiator for»

The advocate also typically acts as the lead negotiator for drafting child custody agreements, child support contracts, and parenting plans.

Notable mandates: Successfully overturned a $ 100 - million pension obligations judgment against MTS Allstream on appeal; represented the City of Winnipeg in interest arbitration with paramedics; lead negotiator for the University of Brandon in talks with its faculty association; acted for the Puratone Corp. in its CCAA proceedings and purchase by Maple Leaf Foods; negotiated first labour agreement for the Canadian Human Rights Museum; Manitoba counsel on a number of P3 deals, including the Pan / Parapan American Games Athletes» Village Project.

This deal shows the importance and maturity of China's retail industry, where a lot of opportunities are still up for grabs by those who combine good knowledge of Chinese consumers» expectations and technological excellence», said Jean - Philippe Engel, lead negotiator for Leaf.

NRDC's lead negotiator for the agreement, Ralph Cavanagh, told the New York Times that Diablo Canyon should be closed to accommodate renewables:

With the talks due to end on Friday night, the lead negotiator for the Philippines could stand it no longer.

Although it might seem that there was little to be risked in the non-binding discussions, the lead negotiator for the United States, one Harlan Watson, spent nearly his entire two weeks in Montreal attempting to undermine their very premise.

Mohammad Al - Sabban, who has for many years been the lead negotiator for Saudi Arabia in treaty talks on climate and is that country's liaison to the intergovernmental climate panel, appears unsatisfied.

Denis Sassou - Nguesso, president of Congo and the lead negotiator for the African Union on climate change, said that domestic pressures on forests have to be countered with other kinds of economic opportunity.

My 37 year career in California public schools, included 10 years of service as a teacher, during which I served proudly as union president and lead negotiator for my local CTA chapter for nearly 8 years.

He was founding Dean of the Duke - NUS Graduate Medical School of Singapore and lead negotiator for major Duke programs in China and elsewhere.

This is the core political thing,» Claudia Salerno, lead negotiator for Venezuela, the country that led the charge against changing the current Kyoto system, said when asked what was at stake.

Biden, who has been the lead negotiator for the budget talks, sat down earlier this month with Republican and Democratic leaders, White House Chief of Staff William Daley and Budget Director Jack Lew to hammer out a deal which would reduce spending and fund the government.

Kirsten Hillman, the lead negotiator for the TPP talks and a senior official on softwood lumber issues, will act as MacNaughton's deputy in Washington and will also play a significant role.

Stewart - Cousins said that means Republicans will control the chamber throughout the budget process and be the lead negotiators for the Senate with Cuomo.

Since taking office — Heastie became one of the lead negotiators for the construction of a new K - 8 school in...

Senator Stewart - Cousins says that means Republicans will control the chamber throughout the budget process and be the lead negotiators for the Senate with Governor Cuomo.

«It's important for our researchers that there is no gap» between the current program and the next, says Teresa Riera Madurell, a former academic from Spain and one of the lead negotiators for the European Parliament.

Not exact matches

Chris Voss has been the lead international hostage negotiator for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the lead crisis negotiator for the New York City Division of the FBI.

Trump's decision to impose duties on up to $ 60 billion worth of Chinese imports, for example, comes at a time when Washington needs Beijing's help to rein in a nuclear - armed Pyongyang, said Wendy Sherman, a former under secretary of state for political affairs at the U.S. State Department who was the lead American negotiator for the Iran nuclear agreement.

The former envoy praised the Republican president's chief negotiator Jason Greenblatt for meeting a cross-section of Israelis and Palestinians during a visit last week that has led to U.S. - Israeli discussions on limiting settlement building.

Canada's negotiating team will be led by Steve Verheul, the chief negotiator for CETA.

Delegations were led by the chief negotiators for the three countries, who indicated that progress was made in the areas of sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) rules, customs, trade facilitation, telecommunications, good regulatory practices, anti-corruption, market access for goods, technical barriers to trade (TBT), digital trade, and some sectoral annexes.

Whilst the negotiators for the UK are likely to be drawn from across the party spectrum, negotiations will be led by a representative of the governing parties: the Prime Minister will probably assume ultimate responsibility for the process.

Lamb himself is more optimistic here and believes that the initiation of Afghan - led dialogue towards a better life is an important achievement, and might leave a positive legacy for a future that no longer involves NATO negotiators.

Alison Hirsh, the political director and a registered lobbyist for the building workers union 32BJ, is now the lead negotiator in the speaker's race for the council's Progressive Caucus, which Mark - Viverito co-chairs — and which is expected to emerge as a power broker in the speaker's race.

I also want to thank and commend our lead negotiators Todd Snyder and Joe Bress for their tireless work on behalf of the people of the state.»

The world is getting greener and the political appetite for change growing — and the UN's lead climate negotiator is infectiously optimistic

«It's not the 100 % that I hoped for,» says Gerard Meijer, the president of Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and the lead negotiator on the Dutch side.

As the talks in Warsaw wrapped up late last year, China's lead climate negotiator, Su Wei, told ClimateWire that China has already «launched consultations for actions that would be very important to fight climate change.»

Negotiators for the A.F.T., led by Albert Shanker, the union's president, had sought relief from seniority provisions that the union maintained were unduly restrictive.

On Friday, Todd Stern, the lead United States negotiator in climate talks, prodded China sharply in a speech at the University of Michigan Law School, criticizing its negotiators for backtracking from commitments that he said were clear cut under the Copenhagen Accord that emerged from the chaotic talks last December.

[UPDATE 12/24: I've added a note that came in from Mohammad Al Sabban, the lead negotiator in climate talks for Saudi Arabia.

Negotiators in Copenhagen are trying to set targets for controlling emissions of carbon dioxide and other global - warming gases, including by the leading contributors, China and the United States.

In the two years leading up to the 2015 Paris climate summit, C2ES convened the Toward 2015 dialogue, which brought together lead negotiators from more than 20 countries to discuss options for a new climate agreement.

Sitting at opposite ends of a very long table are Pablo Solon and Jonathan Pershing, lead climate negotiators for Bolivia and the United States respectively.

As you can see, led by the collapse of the former communist economies and the shuttering of inefficient Soviet industries, in addition to the substitution of British gas for coal, the European negotiators knew they had tremendous CO2 reductions already in their pocket, IF 1990 was chosen as a base year.

Abigail Borah, a New Jersey resident, interrupted the start of lead U.S. negotiator Todd Stern's speech to call out members of Congress for impeding global climate progress, delivering a passionate call for an urgent path towards a fair and binding climate treaty.

Having failed to move a national climate policy through the U.S. Senate before the meeting, Obama's negotiators arrived unprepared and unwilling to sign on for serious international action, let alone to lead.

Lead negotiator Jonathan Pershing did seem confident that - despite a number of problems with the current text from a U.S. perspective - the stage is set for great progress on Monday and that we will soon have «more clarity on the very core question of how we will have an operational agreement coming out of this meeting.»

Prior to joining the United Nations, de Boer worked as the lead climate negotiator for the Netherlands and as a Dutch housing minister.

The lead Chinese negotiator, singling out the United States, reiterated his call for dramatic action from developed countries — a decrease in emissions, over the next 10 years, to at least 25 percent below 1990 levels.

After Monday's empowering speech by the Philippines lead negotiator Naderev «Yeb» Sano and his decision to fast in support of his home country until a meaningful COP outcome was in sight, the youth of COP 19 decided to show solidarity for Yeb and the Philippines by participating in a voluntary fast for climate change.

He is also known as a leading negotiator and trial attorney in the area, achieving consistent results for his clients.

Other key figures in the Bristol office include Emily Settle, a «strong deal negotiator and clear communicator» who was part of a team led by Plymouth - based Chris Worrell acting for Centrica on a # 145m acquisition of ENER - G Cogen International.

Recent instructions include: - ISDA Negotiators for a number of top tier UK and international banks - Interim Commercial Lawyer for an Insurance company - Sanctions Paralegal for a FTSE 100 company - Corporate and Commercial Lawyer for a Financial Services company - Derivatives Lawyer for a leading UK retail bank

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Notable mandates: One of two negotiators for 50 Catholic entities parties to the Indian Residential School Settlement Class Action; lead counsel for Athabasca Potash Inc. during its IPO, and local counsel during its subsequent acquisition by BHP Billiton Canada Inc.; acted for Input Capital in a one - of - a-kind private placement of shares offering used to fund canola streaming contracts for farmers seeking capital; assisted Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP in the acquisition by the Great - West Life Insurance Co. of several shopping centres across Canada; involved in development of, and represents, Canadian Light Source Inc., the country's only national synchrotron research facility.

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