Sentences with phrase «member of the public finance»

Bracewell & Giuliani LLP announced today that 14 members of a public finance and related tax and municipal securities practice at Vinson & Elkins LLP will join the firm as partners in January 2012 (more...)

Charles Cardall, a partner in the San Francisco office, is the Chair of the Tax Department and is a member of the Public Finance Department.

Bryan D. Victor, a partner in the Sacramento office, is a member of the Public Finance practice group.

John Wang is a member of the Public Finance Department and chair of the higher education financing group.

Not exact matches

Members of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) went to Beijing for meetings July 11 - 12 with the Chinese Ministry of Finance and the China Securities Regulatory Commission.

The 12 - member independent working group was comprised of senior leaders from across Canada's financial services sector, including finance, investment and capital formation sourced from both public and private markets.

«In light of the issues noted above, the Bank of Israel, the Capital Market, Insurance and Savings Department, the Israel Tax Authority, the Israel Securities Authority, and the Israel Money Laundering and Terror Financing Prohibition Authority recommend to members of the public considering the use of decentralized virtual currencies to understand their characteristics, to be aware of the unique risks inherent in their use, and to display heightened awareness and caution.

He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and New York State Society of CPA's, and previously served on the Finance Committee for the AIDS Council of Northeastern New York.

Green finance projects are selected using MuniFin's Green Framework and finally approved by the Green Evaluation Team, which consists of two or more members from environmental functions of MuniFin's customers or other environmental public sector entities or organisations.

Services such as public finance advisory services, securities underwriting, and securities sales and trading are provided by PNC Capital Markets LLC, a registered broker - dealer and member of FINRA and SIPC.

The commission members are former IndyCar team owner Tom Kelley; Tim Clauson, an ex-race car driver and mechanic whose son Bryan started the 2012 Indy 500; Earl Goode, former chairman of Indiana Sports Corp. and a former aide to former Gov. Mitch Daniels; Ryan Kitchell, CEO of Indiana University Health and the state's former public finance director; and Chris Atkins, director of Indiana's Office of Management and Budget.

When Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer launched the initial salvo in his realease - your - tax - returns war with his NYC comptroller primary opponent, Eliot Spitzer, he did so by putting out five years of his own returns, enabling reporters — and members of the public — to scrutinize the finances of Stringer and his wife, Elyse Buxbaum.

Significant cuts to bilateral aid budgets due to the consolidation of public finances have reduced member states» willingness to pool further resources and competences in Brussels.

Savino, one of five independent Democrats who have formed a coalition with Senate Republicans, told The New York Observer's Politicker that one of the impediments to public financing are ex-council members who are current legislators in Albany.

Last week, Garodnick and 26 other City Council members sent a letter to Gov. Cuomo in support of his renewed pledge to support a statewide bill for public campaign financing.

Amidst the media's recent focus on independent redistricting, New York City Council member Dan Garodnick encourages New Yorkers not to lose sight of the importance of campaign finance reform, highlighting the many benefits that the New York City public matching funds system has created for small donors, candidates for public office, and the voting public.

Common Cause / NY is an active member of the Fair Elections Coalition, working for the passage of a broad package of campaign finance measures, built around a core of small donor matching fund public financing of elections.

Congressmen Support Public Campaign Financing Three members of New York's congressional delegation announced their support for publicly financed elections this week.

Several MoveOn and Occupy members braved a chill wind and snow to demonstrate outside the State Capitol in favor of the state's adopting a public small donor matching fund to finance political campaigns.

Media producer and NY LEAD coalition member Marc Weiss, writing for Newsday, called for New York senators and assembly members to support Gov. Cuomo and Speaker Silver in passing public campaign finance legislation, asking, «Do they want to continue business as usual, or do they want to be part of the solution?»

Members of the fair elections coalition were joined by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver Tuesday to again call for public campaign financing.

As various proposals for a broader public financing system are floated, members of the mainline Democratic conference in the Senate, as well as advocates that have pushed the measure over the years, are telegraphing they won't support any agreement they deem watered - down.

The party sent out a press release this morning reiterating its «staunch» opposition to «the wasteful and often abused system of public financing of campaigns,» and reminding members of the Senate and Assembly who plan on seeking the Conservative line this fall that legislation that would create such a system is double rated — meaning it will carry twice the rate of other bills in determining lawmakers» score, as it were, on top party issues.

In response to the recent corruption cases against public officials which continue to rock state and local offices, and perhaps in an effort to distance himself from the corruption which ensnared a member of his own small network of close colleagues, Senator David Carlucci (D - Rockland / Ossining) joined Executive Assistant District Attorney Itamar Yegeri to announce a comprehensive plan which aims to prevent campaign finance improprieties through new regulations on campaign spending and donations.

Commenting on today's publication of the Wales Audit Office report on «Health Finances 2012 - 13 and Beyond», Aled Roberts, who is a member of the Public Accounts Committee, said:

- Administering the New York State and Local Retirement System for public employees, with more than one million members, retirees and beneficiaries and more than 3,000 employers; - Acting as sole trustee of the $ 129 billion Common Retirement Fund, one of the largest institutional investors in the world; - Maintaining the State's accounting system and administering the State's $ 12.6 billion payroll; - Issuing reports on State finances; - Managing the State's assets and issuing debt; - Reviewing State contracts and payments before they are issued; - Conducting audits of State agencies and public benefit corporations; - Overseeing the fiscal affairs of local governments, including New York City; - Overseeing the Justice Court Fund and the Oil Spill Fund Acting as custodian of more than $ 9 billion in abandoned property and restoring unclaimed funds to their rightful owners;

At 10 a.m., members of the New York City Campaign Finance Board hold their next public meeting; boardroom, 12th floor, 100 Church St., Manhattan.

The umbrella group formed to push for a system of public financing on a statewide level says some of its members are being shut out of a Senate Republican - backed hearing on abuses within the New York City system.

While a majority of Moreland Commission members backed a recommendation in a preliminary report to create a public financing system, seven members joined a dissent that argued against the proposal, which is backed by labor groups and good - government advocates.

«Of course countries have got to make difficult decisions about their own public finances... but it's the open speculation from some members in the eurozone about the future of some countries in the eurozone which I think is doing real damage across the whole European economy.&raquOf course countries have got to make difficult decisions about their own public finances... but it's the open speculation from some members in the eurozone about the future of some countries in the eurozone which I think is doing real damage across the whole European economy.&raquof some countries in the eurozone which I think is doing real damage across the whole European economy.»

The four - member Independent Democratic Conference backs a broad package of reform measures that includes the public financing of political campaigns.

He was also alleged to have used public funds to finance private expenses, while engaging in illegal payment of allowances to the university's council members.

The seven commission members who broke with the 25 - member panel on the public financing recommendation pointed to that Common Cause report as a sign that public financing of political campaigns can be easily undermined thanks to IE groups.

The majority of the members on Moreland Commission on Public Corruption recommended in a December report that the state create a public financing system based on New York City, with seven members dissePublic Corruption recommended in a December report that the state create a public financing system based on New York City, with seven members dissepublic financing system based on New York City, with seven members dissenting.

When we get the IDC members out of office maybe we'll then have a shot at expanding Public Finance state wide becuase I'm hard pressed to find city council members who openly act like sleeze bags and bribe people like Malcolm Smith

The proceedings of a new state commission designed to examine public corruption and campaign finance practices will not necessarily take place in public, its director said after the 25 - member panel met behind closed doors and without public notice.

The governor in late May set a benchmark for his support of the alliance between Republicans and the five - member Independent Democratic Conference, saying he wanted action on the Dream Act (which failed in April), a broader system of public campaign finance (beyond the pilot program passed in the state budget) and his Women's Equality Act, which has been controversial because of a plank changing the state's abortion laws.

The speech and Stringer drew praise from many in the audience, which included council members, fellow borough presidents and three of his presumptive 2013 mayor challengers: Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, campaign finance scandal - scarred Comptroller John Liu and Quinn, who were seated in the front row side - by side.

Assembly members did not require state public officials convicted of public corruption to forfeit their pensions and it also ignored Cuomo's pitch for public financing of campaigns.

The party helped get Controller John Liu and Public Advocate Bill DeBlasio elected last fall along with a slew of City Council members - only to then see its finances challenged and dragged into court.

A hearing by Senate Republicans on New York City's public campaign financing system was overshadowed by protests, as government reform groups and other members of the public were denied entry, and noisy protests ensued.

Comptroller DiNapoli's past proposals created a «campaign finance board» consisting of seven members appointed by a variety of offices and gave that newly formed agency sufficient time to consider and issue regulations and develop the necessary procedures for shepherding and safeguarding the public money under its charge.

The group says they are looking ahead to the November elections and key races in the state Senate, where some members oppose reforms, including the public financing of campaigns.

Kelly was a member of a commission set up by the Institute for Public Policy Research into the Private Finance Initiative, which expressed some scepticism about the operation of the policy.

The latest ConHome survey of Tory members shows that a whopping 94 % believe that «significant cuts in public spending are going to be necessary to restore order to the public finances.»

Daramola was also said to have allegedly used public funds to finance private expenses, while engaging in illegal payment of allowances to the university's council members.

In the latest ConservativeHome survey of Tory members, no fewer than 94 % took the view that significant cuts in public expenditure would be necessary to restore order to the public finances.

State legislators in both the Assembly and Senate sought to require REDC members to disclose their finances, deliberate in the open and file public notices of any of their ties to organizations seeking state money.

Many W.F.P. members said action on a system of public campaign finance could tip them in Cuomo's direction.

The groups says they are looking ahead to the November elections and key races in the State Senate, where some members oppose reforms, including the public financing of campaigns.