Sentences with phrase «on multibillion»

The insurer, like its fellow Chinese investor HNA Group Co., went on a multibillion - dollar buying binge over the past few years.

Our global energy practice is renowned for its work on multibillion - dollar energy transactions.

Slaughter and May, Allen & Overy (A&O) and a trio of Indian law firms have taken lead roles on the multibillion - dollar merger of Vodafone India and Indian telecoms company Idea, a deal that will create the country's largest telecoms operator.

Tom Cummins Qualified: 2007 Made partner: 2015 Key cases: Advising Rusal on a multibillion - dollar shareholder arbitration concerning Rusal's investment in Norilsk Nickel; advising Rusal on an LCIA arbitration relating to a $ 50bn commodity supply contract.

Advising China's Bright Food on its multibillion dollar acquisition of Israel's biggest food co-operative, Tnuva.

It undertakes a range of acquisition and investment work and continues to act for RB Rail on a multibillion - euro joint venture of Latvian, Lithuanian and Estonian companies on the construction of a high - speed rail line from Tallinn to the Polish border.

Magic circle firm acts for China Investment Corporation on multibillion - pound logistics company purchase

The company says it's working on something that could help to solve that problem, but for now it's satisfied with focusing on the multibillion digital book, magazine, and textbook market.

«This research could have a major impact on the multibillion - dollar cleaning products industry.»

The engineering on this multibillion - dollar proposal was researched and presented publicly by my commercial real estate firm nearly a decade ago.

Some popular video games are being recognized for their impact on the multibillion - dollar industry.

The Ethiopian government of Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn has signalled that it is not impressed and that it will carry on with work on the multibillion dollar Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam — a move seen by some as raising temperatures further, possibly triggering the «water wars» that pessimists have long predicted will characterise the geopolitics of the 21st century.

According to McGowan's website, her new memoir promises to explore «the truth about the entertainment industry,» «dismantle the concept of fame,» and «shine a light on a multibillion - dollar business built on systemic misogyny.»

Not exact matches

Brennan has interviewed billionaires, heads of state, thought leaders and chief executives of multibillion - dollar corporations and her profile story on Equity Group Investments chairman Sam Zell was one of five magazine covers featured on the 2013 Forbes 400 issue.

On the phone was the chairman of a multibillion - dollar corporation for which Amir Georges Sabongui, a Montreal corporate psychologist, had previously consulted.

U.S. military veterans will meet with tribal leaders on Saturday as they continue to entrench themselves in a North Dakota camp where thousands of activists are protesting a multibillion - dollar pipeline project near a Native American reservation.

So Google pretty clearly has a vested interest in the open web, since that is what it has built its multibillion - dollar empire on.

But it is the only system where ideas once scribbled on a cocktail napkin can become multibillion - dollar enterprises, and make a lot of people rich along the way.

Additionally, it comes at a time when oil prices are on the rise, but stuck in a range that makes multibillion - dollar projects in new offshore areas unattractive for many drillers.

The online retailer grew into a multibillion - dollar company based on the reputation and power of its unique organizational personality.

Let's face it, if Walmart founder Sam Walton had told the world early on that he was going to build a multibillion - dollar industry, people would have probably ignored him.

German industrial group Siemens is likely to decide on Tuesday to pursue a multibillion - dollar rail merger with French rival Alstom rather than Canada's Bombardier.

On Sept. 15, 2011, the financial press was buzzing about a rogue UBS trader who had racked up a multibillion - dollar loss.

After failing to persuade Microsoft to release its iron grip on its code in 1997 — then, Friedman was a lowly intern, and de Icaza a mere job applicant — they set out to develop audacious software that spurned the company's multibillion - dollar business model.

Consumerism is continuously on the rise, creating the perfect playground for all business - minded individuals looking to make a claim in the multibillion - dollar ecommerce industry.

«At the same time, we see significant momentum for alternative energy vehicles, an inferior competitive landscape and continued progress on Model 3 production driving more than 70 % top - line growth this year, easily one of the fastest ever by a multibillion - dollar company.

But as a health care technology innovator intent on revolutionizing a multibillion - dollar industry, I've come to realize that it's far more important to be a visionary than a dreamer.

We have built a multibillion dollar industry on this, and we're not stopping any time soon.

After JPMorgan recently resisted a settlement with the nation's commodities trading regulator, the people briefed on the matter said, the agency began drafting a lawsuit connected to the bank's multibillion - dollar «London whale» trading loss last year.

Financial regulators on both sides of the Atlantic imposed multibillion - dollar fines on five global banks Wednesday as part of investigations into rigging of key foreign exchange markets.

«I'll tell you what I told our investors: We never signed on to building a two - year business,» Goldberg said when asked whether Fab, with the help of Hem, had the potential to grow into the multibillion - dollar business he promised them.

Despite Adobe's decades - long grip on creative industries, venture capitalists are betting they can help startups outmaneuver the behemoth and grab slices of the multibillion - dollar market.

As an aside, those who believe that the province should simply «take back Translink» as a crown corporation (or similar) should understand that in practical accounting terms this would also involve taking on Translink's multibillion dollar debt (supported as it is by ridership fees, gas taxes, etc.), and that this would almost certainly immediately denigrate the province's AAA credit rating.

Investec's Hillcoat said it's unlikely that Rio will embark on any «multibillion - dollar expansions» to chase M&A growth or pay a premium for other commodities, such as copper, given the industry's history of overspending.

A multibillion - dollar bet on China.

Merck & Co. won a legal victory over rival Gilead Sciences Inc. on Tuesday when a California jury upheld the validity of two patents that Merck says should entitle it to a portion of the multibillion - dollar annual sales of Gilead's hepatitis C drugs.

«Based on our sales record, we should have been in a prominent position, but we were at the bottom of the page,» said the e-commerce director of a multibillion - dollar publicly traded company.

And one may, without being unpleasant about it, note that the mainstream media and the scientific establishment who beat the drums for the necessity of killing embryos in order, they said, to find cures for all kinds of illnesses, along with politicians who agitated for multibillion - dollar referendums in California, Missouri, and New Jersey, were, not to put too fine a point on it, dead wrong.

These propositions underlie a huge multibillion - dollar corporate monolith that might use its power to educate the public on health matters were it not for the fact that the present system has not begun to crack.

Many of those changes could result in multibillion - dollar shifts in how the government and consumers spend their money on food.

Ethiopia's plans to build a multibillion dollar dam on the Nile River spurred Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi — whose country lies downstream from Ethiopia — to vow to protect Egypt's water security at all costs.

What incentive do the Senate Republicans have to play ball during the upcoming budget talks, which all sides agree are going to be challenging due to a growing multibillion - dollar deficit, if the governor has already signaled whose side he'll be on in the rematch for control of the chamber next fall?

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver conceded yesterday that the multibillion - dollar «millionaires tax» on those making $ 200,000 and up — which is overwhelmingly favored by his fellow Democrats — is dead.

Cuomo has been reluctant to divulge details on how the tolls on the Tappan Zee Bridge will be affected after the multibillion dollar project to replace the over three mile long bridge is completed.

An infrastructure briefing by senior administration officials to a bipartisan group of senators was derailed on Tuesday by New York senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D.), who accused the administration of «killing people» by not prioritizing a multibillion - dollar tunnel project for her home state, a source familiar with the briefing told the Washington Free Beacon.

What started out as a small, off - budget, temporary surcharge on insurance to help pay for charity care, hospital debt and graduate medical education as New York hospitals deregulated in the late 1990s, has ballooned over 19 years into a multibillion - dollar all - purpose revenue fund that supports dozens of public health programs, and plugs billion - dollar holes in the state's general budget.

Even with New York facing a multibillion - dollar deficit, state legislative Democrats are calling on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to include a «fair and sustainable» revenue source for the cash - strapped MTA in his upcoming budget proposal.

The chairman of the Assembly Committee on Racing and Wagering, J. Gary Pretlow, a Democrat from Mount Vernon, announced on Thursday that there would be a vote on a bill to legalize daily fantasy sports, the multibillion - dollar sports - betting industry that was bulldozed from New York last year after the state attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, ordered its two largest purveyors, DraftKings and FanDuel, to stop operating.

After reporting on Hurricane Sandy, he broke the story of how the city planned a multibillion dollar effort to increase its resistance to climate change, and reported from the Netherlands on how the Dutch prepare for higher sea levels.

That report, called a draft environmental impact statement, will provide a recommendation to the New York State Department of Transportation on what multibillion - dollar option they should select for the project.