Sentences with phrase «of deal lawyers»
The prosecution was controversial to begin with, but the verdict should strike fear in the hearts of deal lawyers everywhere, says Tom Kirkendall at the blog Houston's Clear Thinkers.
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«You can't acquire a lot of wealth without rubbing shoulders with people who've dealt with a lot of wealth before, so you naturally see the thing starting to extend beyond that, and some lawyers have gotten involved, and accounts have got involved, and asset managers have gotten involved.»
But if we were busy dealing with lawyers and accountants, while interviewing, hiring and training support staff, how could we generate awareness of our brand and uncover new clients?
In their analysis of the new legislation, lawyers at McCarthy Tétrault warned its «broad concepts and elements of uncertainty» could «place a heavy burden» on foreign companies looking to invest in Canada; the risk of a meddlesome minister torpedoing a deal is just too high.
Richard Painter, former White House lawyer, and Kevin Arqiut, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, discusses the Department of Justice suing to block the merger deal between AT&T and Time Warner.
It's great that you're the VP of engineering or the head of sales, but you also have to deal with the lawyer, the payroll.
You are now dealing with the executor of Aunt Irma's estate, who may be 1) a greedy relative who sees the «gift» as an investment for which the estate is entitled to a substantial piece of your business, 2) a local estate lawyer whose main purpose in life is to squeeze as many assets out of the estate as possible so as to maximize their fees, or 3) someone even worse.
And as the onetime M&A lawyer weighed the Starwood deal, he recognized another bit of potential synergy: Like Marriott, Starwood employed the same asset - light model that has long ruled the industry.
When you go to China, you have to know how to deal with the government and how they deal with your business, so now a lot of my time is spent with lawyers and accountants, which I hate.
Big Idea: Having gone from helping a couple of students incorporate their company to Sillicon Valley's most powerful lawyer, Drummond has a front - row seat to history, overseeing the search giant's corporate deals as well as the public - policy issues embroiling the search giant around privacy and national security.
And Valeant's round - about method of funding research, if that's what it's actually doing, seems a lot less cost effective, with all of the bankers and lawyers and hedge fund managers taking chunks of deals than if drug companies directly devoted a portion of their sales toward finding new drugs.
But even if there is an overlap in business and friendship, investment deals always need to be mapped out obsessively by the most stringent lawyers, says Nikhil Varaiya, the director of graduate programs and a professor of finance at the College of Business Administration at San Diego State University.
This amendment dealt a blow to First Canadian's growing business of offering a cheaper alternative to lawyer's title registration services.
The surge of big transactions — with more than 20 deals worth at least $ 10 billion — has been bolstered by a desire by boards to head off disruptive technological threats and accelerate growth, according to bankers and lawyers who spoke to the Financial Times.
This colleague is a lawyer with whom I work on a deal and have done so for a couple of years.
The White House announced the hiring of lawyer Emmet Flood after disclosing the retirement of Ty Cobb, who for months has been the administration's point person dealing with special counsel Robert Mueller.
The company has hired a fleet of elite lawyers, bankers and auditors, including JPMorgan Chase, UBS and PwC, that have scoured its books and advised the company on major deals.
Ty Cobb, the White House lawyer in charge of dealing with the Russia investigation, will retire at the end of the month and be replaced by Emmet Flood.
Some Implications of Most - Favoured Nation Treatment,» respected trade lawyer Lawrence L. Herman concludes that investors from countries that have preferential trade agreements with Canada will be entitled to the same preferential benefits as EU investors under the Canada - EU trade deal.
They are often one of the best sources of early - stage deal flow for VCs because one of the first companies most entrepreneurs do business with is their lawyers who incorporate their companies.
That was the result of a plea deal struck by the Pompano Beach - raised hip - hop star on Tuesday, said his lawyer, Bradford Cohen.
And legions of lawyers from some top Am Law 100 firms are advising on the deal, which could create a combined company worth $ 146 billion.
Obviously none of this needs to make any sense to provide employment and entertainment for the lawyers on this deal.
If you do round up money from a load of small unsophisticated investors please make sure to get a great corporate lawyer with experience in doing VC deals to structure the deal to minimize the amount of signatures you need to get for approvals and to ensure that every angel has signed an accredited investor statement.
Lawyers who specialize in Committee on Foreign Investment law say the deal structure was unusual: The size of the stake walked the line of where the panel has investigated in the past, and the agreement had a clause that allowed either side to call it off if the panel became involved.
Then, when it comes time to working with a lawyer, the focus can be on those aspects of the deal or docs that really need advice or hand - crafting.
Other successful acquisitive companies use teams of internal people, outside bankers, consultants and lawyers to do due diligence, often over many months to assess deals.
I find that one of my best sources of deal flow is from lawyers.
«People worry a great deal about retaliation when they bring forth these kinds of claims,» says Richard Salzman, a federal employment lawyer in Washington.
Part of that process of getting up to speed on deal terms is gaining a fundamental understanding of whether equity or debt investment is right for the individual investor, lawyers say.
The American Civil Liberties Union, the National Education Association, lawyers, legislators and judges have been similarly forced to deal with the issue because of the numerous bills and civil suits demanding equal time for creationism.
He told Premier: «Some Pakistani government ministers and court lawyers have tried to deal with this [persecution in Pakistan] but actually one or two of them have been executed over the years, just because they stood up for a minority, i.e. for the Christians there.
It is understood the two buyout firms negotiated the deal between themselves, with the help of their respective lawyers.
Bankers and lawyers see no signs of merger and acquisition activity abating in the next six months, as private equity firms step up to make further deals and as infrastructure - related transactions continue to attract interest.
Of course you are dealing with employment laws across different states and different countries and to try to police legally something like that, it was agreed in the room that all the lawyers in the world couldn't come up with a contract to police it.
The mysterious case of Deli Alli's middle - finger looked to be settled after Walker took to twitter to debunk the controversy with a simple Mr.Bean gif (we're guessing that will now be a favored approach from lawyers and solicitors moving forward in dealing with high - profile cases?).
Buoyed by a substantial offer from the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League — reported in the week leading up to the draft to be a two - year, $ 6 million deal — Ismail's bevy of agents, lawyers and advisers, a.k.a. Team Rocket, proceeded to price him out of the NFL.
The three - year, $ 3 million deal is awaiting only the final approval of the lawyers on both sides.
... the so called «deal» has hit a glitch — it appears to be subject to an area of «spanish law» which suggests lawyers will be looking at it and in the interim period neymar jnr will not be playing @psg until the arrangement is totally legit.
Yes, you were even paying the lawyers when Daley gave a deposition last August and said dozens of times that he just couldn't recall any details about the Park Grill deal.
What Daley chalked up to bad lawyering was a clout - heavy deal made with investors who included close friends and allies of Daley himself.
We want to get you through it without having to deal with spending all of your time in court system or on the phone with a lawyer.
The 2003 deal sets a base yearly payment of $ 275,000, but the operators of the grill have not paid that because it was deferred under terms of the lease, lawyers said.
As the federal government seeks a dismissal of Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's hydraulic fracturing lawsuit, the state's top lawyer said he's dealing with the issue «at several levels.»
Mr. Nketia said: «The reason why we are calling for the arrest of Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia is that — I am not a lawyer — but I have heard people say that if you falsify public documents with the intention of deceiving people, our laws should have a way of dealing with you.»
But, 95 % + of the lawyers in the state use less than 10 % of the statutes by page length, on any regular basis, and I probably use only 10 % of the tax code and 5 % of the tax regulations despite having an extremely broad tax practice in terms of the variety of subjects I deal with compared to the average lawyer who does tax work.
Prison should never be used to deal with non-violent crimes like theft or fraud, one of the country's top lawyers has said.
«The reason why we are calling for the arrest of Mahamudu Bawumia is that, I am not a lawyer, but i have heard people say that if you fabricate public document, if you falsify public document with the intention of deceiving people, our laws should have a way of dealing with you.
As dozens of laid - off Destiny workers looked on, the councilors quizzed lawyers from the city and Pyramid about the deal.
The well - publicized and oft - lauded «shared services» exchange between Dutchess and Ulster counties of public - defender lawyers, dealing in cases of conflicts for home - grown attorneys, would in the opinion of both executives save perhaps $ 200,000 a year.