Sentences with phrase «major private law firms»

In the Canadian law library context, all major private law firms with national practices, save one, use modified KFThe best article on KF and the development of Canadian law library cataloguing comes from UBC.

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Over the course of his private practice legal career, Jimmy was a partner at three major U.S. law firms — most recently Davis Wright Tremaine LLP.

Her private sector experience includes working for the law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell and Fortress, a major hedge fund.

The Nassau County - based Skelos, who works for Ruskin Moscou Faltischek, a major Long Island law firm that represents dozens of powerful businesses before state agencies, voluntarily revealed last year that he was paid as much as $ 250,000 in private legal fees in 2009, when he was Senate minority leader.

Earlier this year, the city's major police unions called for Emery's dismissal over his private law firm's role in a suit against the city on behalf of a former CCRB plaintiff.

Before becoming a barrister, Stephen had extensive experience as a solicitor at major City firms in public and private mergers and acquisitions (both domestic and cross-border), corporate law, acquisition financing and infrastructure

Part of the team advising (in relation to US litigation argued pursuant to English Law) and representing (High Court, Commercial Court) a major private equity firm (Terra Firma) regarding misrepresentations made by a US investment bank during the sale and financing of a high profile multi-billion pound takeover of a FTSE 100 company and the subsequent pre-pack administration of the acquired company.

Catherine has worked both in the City and with major regional law firms, acting for private clients, with particular emphasis on the needs of high net worth individuals, both UK - domiciled and non-UK domiciled.

Currently in private beta testing, this site will launch with nearly 30,000 documents contributed from national law firms, major regional firms, academics, leading practitioners and legal bloggers, research specialists, commercial publishers and law societies.

At the same time there were new disruptive entrants to market such as Quinn Emanuel, Stewarts Law, Signature Litigation, Enyo, etc. whose strategy was to provide a «conflict free» litigation service, enabling them to act for individuals, private equity houses and hedge funds in major pieces of litigation against the banks, work that the established elite firms in London could not touch.

Before entering legal recruiting, she divided her experience practicing law roughly evenly between working as an associate in a major law firm and as an in - house attorney for a prestigious private equity / investment management company that she had served while working for the law firm.

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.

As a top law firm with offices in Boston, New York, Paris and Washington, D.C., Foley Hoag has developed a deep understanding of the legal issues around major projects and the interplay between private and public sector concerns.

Private law firms have only been allowed in China since 1992, and in 2015 The Economist reported that the legal sector constituted 0.1 % (US$ 7.6 billion) of China's GDP, compared with the more than 1 % average contribution from the sector in major European countries.

At least one of the private partners in this plan includes a major law firm, who have launched a microsite covering some of the legal and ethical risks involved.

Europe Our European practice has recently focused on representing (i) the Fédération Internationale de Football Association («FIFA») in connection with U.S. and Swiss criminal investigations into allegations of bribery and corruption in the international soccer world («Investigation»), including conducting an internal investigation on behalf of the organization; (ii) two major European banks, including by investigating whether the banks knew or should have known that accounts at the banks were used to pay bribes; (iii) a multinational logistics and transportation company based in Switzerland in a DOJ investigation of alleged violations of the FCPA; (iv) a Switzerland - based, international private bank, in connection with the global criminal investigations involving 1MDB, Malaysia's sovereign wealth fund; (v) several major European banks in connection with the «Panama Papers» investigation focused on whether accounts at the bank held under the names of companies created by the Panamanian law firm, Mossack Fonseca, were used to evade taxes, conduct business with sanctioned individuals or companies, or otherwise engage in criminal activity; (vi) ENRC, a large mining conglomerate formerly listed on the London Stock Exchange, in a high - profile investigation by the UK's Serious Fraud Office of alleged bribery in the company's operations in Africa and Kazikhstan; and (vii) several European banks in connection with the Petrobras and PdVSA investigations focused on whether accounts at the banks were used to pay bribes to Petrobras or PdVSA officials in return for contracts.