Sentences with phrase «of ownership laws»

The idea for an ACCC investigation was hatched during media reform negotiations in parliament earlier this year, which resulted in a relaxation of ownership laws to allow the country's big players to boost their market share to better compete against online disruptors.

Not exact matches

The ban is just one of many restrictive laws on gun ownership in the U.K., but it's an important one.

That database, obtained from Panama City law firm Mossack Fonseca and made public by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, showed Amin and Mansoor Lalji have an ownership position in the J.W. Marriott Las Vegas Resort and Rampart Casino, and brother Shiraz Lalji has connections to Oakdene Finance Ltd., a holding company based in the British Virgin Islands.

Canada has a different environment — a more stable and regulated banking sector, less of a policy push toward home ownership and recourse laws that allow wider latitude for mortgage lenders to go after delinquents.

If any law students out there are looking for a great subject for a law review note, maybe this is it: With driverless cars, and almost no individual driving or ownership, an entire subset of American lawyers will be looking for somebody else to sue.

In 2015, President Obama signed into law a bill allowing U.S. citizens ownership of whatever resources they're able to extract from an asteroid.

Nearly five years ago, then Industry Minister Maxime Bernier struck a panel led by Lynton «Red» Wilson, the former president and CEO of BCE, to review Canada's foreign ownership laws.

Amid promises of more of the same, there is slight hope that the Conservative government might finally address a long neglected issue — foreign ownership laws.

Cohen «is really a businessman» who «also practices law,» Trump says, apparently referring to Cohen's ownership of several taxicab medallions.

Stock had originally planned to offer direct ownership to everyone as part of the leveraged buyout, but he ran afoul of a Missouri state law that limits the number of owners in a privately held corporation.

A roundup of gun control and violence studies by writer German Lopez at Vox shows Americans represent less than 5 % of the world population but possess nearly 50 % of the world's civilian - owned guns, police are about three times more likely to be killed in states with high gun ownership, countries with more guns see more gun deaths, and states with tighter gun control laws see fewer gun - related deaths, among other sobering statistics.

While strict mortgage - lending laws were in place before he took office and they came at a cost — less home ownership and slower economic growth — the state's conservative rules, as WSJ notes, «largely prevented the state's residents from signing the types of dubious home loans written in other markets across the country.»

«If a certain number of employees exercise their options, the company becomes a de facto public company, subject to securities laws,» says Corey Rosen of the National Center for Employee Ownership.

Lahore and Karachi share a tattered public transport network (slightly less so in Lahore thanks to the Metro), weak rule of law, and high costs of vehicle ownership.

Foreign ownership laws prohibiting non-Canadian bookselling operations ought to go the way of the dodo.

«Our traditional assumptions of ownership are really frustrated by these digital distribution models,» said Aaron Perzanowski, an associate professor of law at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.

Two years ago, Congress passed and President Obama signed a law that said private companies can own and sell what they extract, although, abiding by the language of the Outer Space Treaty, the companies can not claim ownership of the celestial body itself.

Employees of government agencies, like the CFTC, are subject to long - established laws and regulations on conflicts of interest, insider trading, and ownership restrictions of regulated assets.»

The Company's issuance of shares of common stock, including the additional shares that will be authorized if the proposal is adopted, may dilute the equity ownership position of current holders of common stock and may be made without stockholder approval, unless otherwise required by applicable laws or NYSE regulations.

One example of a company in the space is Everledger, a provider of an immutable ledger for diamond ownership and related transaction history verification for insurance companies, owners, claimants, and law enforcement agencies.

«Stock Ownership and Patterns of Recusal in Federal Courts,» with James Anderson and Merritt McAlister, Georgetown University Law Review 103 (5): 1165 - 1210, 2015.

Within a broader framework — which seeks to protect the full range of interests that antitrust laws were enacted to safeguard — the potential harms include lower income and wages for employees, lower rates of new business creation, lower rates of local ownership, and outsized political and economic control in the hands of a few.407

A day after the Parkland shooting, the Oregon state legislature closed what was called the «Boyfriend Loophole» in its laws about gun ownership among those convicted of domestic violence.

In order to comply with requirements under U.S. law governing the ownership and control of U.S. airlines, at least 75 % of the voting stock of the Company must be held by U.S. citizens and at least two - thirds of the Board of Directors must be U.S. citizens.

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.

See E. Han Kim and Paige Ouimet, «Broad Based Employee Stock Ownership: Motives and Outcomes,» The Journal of Finance, 69:2 (2014): 1273 - 1319; Peter A. Kardas, Adria L. Scharf, and Jim Keogh, «Wealth and Income Consequences of ESOPs and Employee Ownership: A Comparative Study from Washington State,» Journal of Employee Ownership Law and Finance, 10:4 (1998).

Our amended and restated bylaws further provide that no shares of our common stock will be registered on the foreign stock record if the amount so registered would exceed the foreign ownership restrictions imposed by federal law.

Our amended and restated bylaws further provide that no shares of our capital stock will be registered on the foreign stock record if the amount so registered would exceed the foreign ownership restrictions imposed by federal law.

To comply with restrictions imposed by federal law on foreign ownership of U.S. airlines, our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws restrict voting of shares of our common stock by non-U.S. citizens.

To comply with restrictions imposed by federal law on foreign ownership of U.S. airlines, our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws restrict voting of shares of our capital stock by non-U.S. citizens.

Our amended and restated bylaws provide that the failure of non-U.S. citizens to register their shares on a separate stock record, which we refer to as the «foreign stock record,» would result in a suspension of their voting rights in the event that the aggregate foreign ownership of the outstanding common stock exceeds the foreign ownership restrictions imposed by federal law.

In the early 1970s Senator Russell Long took the ideas of law professor and investment banker Louis O. Kelso and added sections to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 that defines ESOPs (Employee Stock Ownership Plans) and establishes the tax - advantaged status for these plans.

Oregon Live reports that the state has banned gun ownership by anyone convicted of domestic violence since 2015, but the law did not apply to abusers who were not married to, had no children with, or did not live with their victims.

Bill Morneau paying a $ 200 fine for failing to disclose his stake in the ownership structure of his French villa — he had disclosed the villa itself — was turned into wails that he was a law - breaker, or that the fine was somehow a sanction for a «conflict of interest» that was never a conflict.

(1) engage in the «Geographic Area» (as defined below) as an employee, agent, consultant, advisor, independent contractor, proprietor, partner, officer, director, or otherwise of a Competing Business (as defined below); (2) have any ownership interest (except for passive ownership of one percent (1 %) or less in any entity whose securities have been registered under the Securities Act of 1933 or Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or the securities laws of any other jurisdiction of the United States) in a Competing Business; or (3) participate in the financing, operation, management, or control of a Competing Business.

Under current tax law, business owners often find it challenging to transfer ownership of a family - run company to the next generation without help from a financial partner.

From 2008 — 2012 he chaired the advisory board of the Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance at the Yale School of Management and from 2012 to present has served as vice chair of the advisory board of the Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership at Columbia Law School.

In some cases, where ownership is dispersed among a number of different owners — such as a large law firm or medical group, for instance — the bank will consider and sometimes accept a limited guarantee shared by all business partners, says Battles.

«This evidence justifies laws that encourage ESOP creation,» states J. Michael Keeling, president of the Employee Ownership Foundation.

The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has ruled that bump stocks do not violate laws that tightly limit ownership of machine guns, and some lawmakers have called for them to be banned.

In June 2016, the Qatar government passed a law to establish three private economic zones that allow 100 % foreign ownership and repatriation of capital and revenues.

It also anticipates further FDI inflows when the emirate's new Federal Foreign Investment Law, which grants full foreign ownership of companies, is implemented.

Such circumstances make it hard enough just to monitor investment performance, let alone manage ownership and take account of the succession law issues in different countries.

In particular, the declaration references the charter's «principles of constitutional contractual citizenship» and «freedom of movement, property ownership, mutual solidarity and defense, as well as principles of justice and equality before the law,» in regards to Muslims and non-Muslims.

Not only does it all belong to Him, but quite unlike the property laws of the toddler, Jesus Christ even claims ownership of broken things.

Furthermore, the law restricted ownership of firearms to»... persons whose trustworthiness is not in question and who can show a need for a (gun) permit.»

Mr Sims is also expecting a wave of mergers to be announced this year, particularly in the media sector following new ownership laws.

The ACCC will examine the proposed acquisition of Ten Network by Lachlan Murdoch and Bruce Gordon, which will be contingent on changes to media ownership law.

As Attorney General, should ownership of the Columbus Crew initiate a move of the team without complying with Ohio law, I am prepared to take the necessary legal action under this law to protect the interests of the State of Ohio and the central Ohio communities which have all invested to make the Columbus Crew a proud part of our Ohio sports tradition and help Mapfre Stadium earn its reputation as «Fortress Columbus.

Paul Finkelman, a professor at the University of Tulsa College of Law and a consultant in the lawsuit over ownership of Barry Bonds's 73rd home run ball, says neither.