Not exact matches
Important factors that may affect the Company's business and operations and that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, but are not
limited to, operating in a highly competitive industry; changes in the retail landscape or the loss of key retail customers; the Company's ability to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the impacts of the Company's international operations; the Company's ability to leverage its brand value; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share, or add products; an impairment of the carrying value of goodwill or other indefinite - lived intangible assets; volatility in commodity, energy and other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or other key personnel; the Company's ability to realize the anticipated benefits from its cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships with significant customers and suppliers; the execution of the Company's international expansion strategy; tax law changes or interpretations;
legal claims or other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability claims; unanticipated business disruptions; the Company's ability to complete or realize the benefits from potential and completed acquisitions, alliances, divestitures or joint ventures; economic and political conditions in the United States and in various other nations in which we operate; the volatility of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value of all or a portion of the derivatives we use; exchange rate fluctuations; risks associated with information technology and systems, including service interruptions, misappropriation of data or breaches of security; the Company's ability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts of natural events in the locations in which we or the Company's customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability to pay such indebtedness; the Company's
ownership structure; the impact of future sales of its common stock in the public markets; the Company's ability to continue to pay a regular dividend; changes in laws and regulations; restatements of the Company's consolidated financial statements; and other factors.
Under the conditions of high concentration of
ownership and weak
legal protection for small - and medium - sized shareholders in China, the distribution of dividends can be used as a way to
limit large shareholders» ability to expropriate minority shareholders» rights or improper government intervention in the listed companies.
Further
legal barriers can include restrictions on foreign
ownership, or trade
limits for low - carbon technology.
EDIT: Our knowledge of
legal systems is very
limited and some of the first attempts we tried so far resulted with statements that are putting in question our right to claim
ownership over user - generated content so we wanted to quickly check if we are doing something obviously wrong.
Delivering access to justice demands change and action on a very broad range of initiatives — pro bono work by the private bar, fair and adequate funding of
legal aid, collaboration among all system participants (clients, lawyers, courts, agencies, NGO's),
legal education (and its financing), e-filing and case data standards, court forms, court interfaces to self - represented litigants, unbundled
legal services, virtual law practice, multistate practice, law practice
ownership and investment,
limited practice licenses, unauthorized practice of law rules, lawyer advertising rules, and lawyer discipline.
Washington State is now the first state [1] to allow alternative business structures (ABSs), whereby non-lawyers are authorized to share fees with lawyers and have
ownership interests in law firms via the recently approved
Limited License
Legal Technician (LLLT) Rules of Professional Conduct (RPC).
In essence, the options were either (1)
limited lawyer / nonlawyer partnerships with a cap on nonlawyer
ownership and the nonlawyers would be subject to a «fit to own» test, (2) lawyer / nonlawyer partnerships with no cap on nonlawyer
ownership but the firm could provide
legal services only (no multidisciplinary services) and the nonlawyer partner (s) would be required to perform services for the firm (they could not be passive investors; as discussed further below, this option was considered to be the «DC approach»), or (3) the same as Option (2) except the firm could offer multidisciplinary services.
The U.K. had a similar rule barring nonlawyer
ownership, but under reforms implemented by the
Legal Services Act of 2007 law firms have been able to take on a
limited number of non-lawyer partners and lawyers have been allowed to enter into a wide variety of business relationships with non-lawyers and non-lawyer owned businesses.
The firm's real estate practice is not
limited to residential and commercial closings and title searches, but includes zoning, land use planning, land
ownership, title disputes, real estate litigation, landlord / tenant law and other RI and Massachusetts real estate
legal issues
Interests in an entity that is considered to be a disregarded - entity for Federal income tax purposes, such as a single - member
limited liability company; this entity must hold either
legal title to the property or other Qualified Indicia of
Ownership.
Consider forming a
limited liability company, which exempts you personally from
legal and financial liabilities of
ownership.
A family
limited partnership, or FLP, provides
legal protections for rental income property and also offers a way to transfer the rental property
ownership from senior family members to future generations — sometimes reducing the tax liability for the family members receiving the rental property.