Sentences with phrase «other corporate law»

He also advises clients ranging from early stage companies to well - known seasoned issuers on governance, mergers and acquisitions and other corporate law matters.

Unlike other corporate law firms, our business attorneys work on a contingency - fee basis, so we only receive a fee if we successfully obtain a recovery in your case.

Not exact matches

Sen. Vitter, a slavish advocate of oil industry and other corporate interests, broke the law prior to 2004 by patronizing prostitutes while a member of the House.

People, person, or persons as used in this Constitution does not include corporations, limited liability companies or other corporate entities established by the laws of any state, the United States, or any foreign state, and such corporate entities are subject to such regulation as the people, through their elected state and federal representatives, deem reasonable and are otherwise consistent with the powers of Congress and the States under this Constitution.

«It doesn't really change the landscape significantly other than insulate companies from lawsuits,» said Yaron Nili, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin who focuses on corporate governance.

Each member of the Audit Committee shall meet the independence standards and expertise requirements of the New York Stock Exchange corporate governance listing standards, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and rules promulgated thereunder, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Improvement Act of 1991 (FDICIA), and other applicable laws and regulations, in each case, as of the Firm's most recent annual meeting.

He is the author of treatises on proxy voting and shareholder communications and his articles have appeared in The London Financial Times, The New York Times, The New York Law Journal, The American Lawyer, Insights, Pensions & Investments, The Corporate Governance Advisor, Directors & Boards, the Journal of Law and Contemporary Problems and other publications and professional blogs.

The new tax law will drop the corporate tax rate to 21 percent from the current 35 percent and includes other measures that Republicans say will spur businesses to invest domestically.

It's an opportunity to explore the kinds of corporate headquarters your metro area already has, and the graduate programs of your local universities in engineering, law, accounting, marketing and other professions.

In addition to Mr. Levitt, the other founding members of the Advisory Board are: Charles A. Bowsher, Comptroller General of the United States and head of the General Accounting Office (GAO) for 15 years; and Professor Lucian Bebchuk, a Director of the Harvard Law School's Program on Corporate Governance.

Four out of five respondents agree that Canada's laws for dealing with companies involved in unethical or corrupt corporate practices should be similar to those in other developed countries, so that Canadian companies are operating on a level playing field with their foreign competitors.

the metaphor was not lost on this [then] 22 year old law student as I shuffled in with the other corporate types every morning.

Similarly, personal information may be transferred as part of a corporate reorganization, insolvency proceeding, or other similar event, if permitted by and done in accordance with applicable law.

If I were in a white - collar financial crimes division, investigating someone for corporate espionage, and found evidence of participation in a child pornography ring on their computer, I think people would be hard - pressed to argue that I should not pass that information along to other law enforcement people.

Good government groups have for years complained that New York's campaign finance laws make it difficult for the public to determine the actual source of campaign dollars, whether due to the so - called «LLC loophole» — which allows business interests that control a network of subsidiaries to vastly multiply their political giving — or corporate formation laws that allow companies to obscure the individuals and other businesses behind them.

Others proposed that laws on corporate governance be amended to assure that shareholders vote on political expenditures.

GE had net operating losses at the height of the financial crisis that federal law allows them — and every other corporate taxpayer — to carry over to subsequent tax years so as not to unfairly burden it with the calendar set by bureaucracy.

Like several other anonymous givers in recent elections, the limited liability company was not principally housed in New York, but in Delaware, a state where the laws provide such anonymity to businesses» corporate founders that some tax experts compare it favorably to the Cayman Islands.

Rowan Wilson, a low - key and self - effacing corporate lawyer specializing in anti-trust and intellectual property, among other things, as well as civil rights law, appeared at a friendly hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The Comptroller's report included a lengthy chart showing the legislature's inaction on ethics reform, criticizing the fact that, among other things, the budget «intentionally omits» measures such as requiring advisory opinions on legislators» outside income, closing the LLC loophole in corporate political contributions, and extending the Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) to cover the Legislature.

The bylaws for the two boards are also being rewritten to include more stringent conflict of interest rules and other corporate governance enhancements such a whistleblower policies, audit committees and rules to comply with state open meetings laws.

Similarly, a failed entrepreneur might explore how skills learned in starting a business could be applied in a corporate setting, take standardized exams to be considered for law school or engage in other low risk exploration activities.

The Secretary shall keep the minutes of the meetings of the members and of the Board of Directors in one or more books provided for that purpose; see that all notices are duly given in accordance with the provisions of these Bylaws or as required by law; be custodian of the corporate records and of the seal of the corporation and see that the seal of the corporation is affixed to all documents, the execution of which on behalf of the corporation under its seal is duly authorized in accordance with the provisions of these Bylaws; keep a register of the post office address of each member which shall be furnished to the Secretary by such member; and in general perform all duties incident to the Office of Secretary and such other duties as from time to time may be assigned to him / her by the President or the Board of Directors.

Doug is experienced in all phases of intellectual property and licensing / contract law, in particular, negotiating and drafting of intellectual property licensing agreements, collaboration agreements, clinical trial agreements, supply and manufacturing agreements, and many other corporate agreements, intellectual property due diligence, strategic management of patent portfolios, patent application preparation and prosecution, and patent opinion work.

There's the ongoing special - counsel investigation into whether the Trump campaign aided a Russian campaign to aid Trump's candidacy and defeat his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton; there's the associated inquiry into whether the president obstructed justice when he fired former FBI Director James Comey, whom he had asked not to investigate his former national - security adviser; there are the president's hush - money payments to women with whom he allegedly had extramarital affairs, made through his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, and facilitated by corporate cash paid to influence the White House; there is his ongoing effort to interfere with the Russia inquiry and politicize federal law enforcement; there are the foreign governments that seem to be utilizing the president's properties as vehicles for influencing administration policy; there's the emerging evidence that Trump campaign officials sought aid not only from Russia, but from other foreign countries, which may have affected Trump's foreign policy; there are the ongoing revelations of the president's Cabinet officials» misusing taxpayer funds; there is the accumulating evidence that administration decisions are made at the behest of private industry, in particular those in which Republican donors have significant interests.

In the last few years the Bribery Act, Corporate Manslaughter Act and other legislation has all directly affected academies and insurance provisions as has case law.

Other corporate and community clients represent law, the media, health care, accounting, education, real estate, and more.

Specifically, laws in 1976 and 1998 that increased the term of a copyright to beyond the life of the author were an instance of Congress acting on behalf of their corporate overlords (Disney and others) rather than focusing on their proper goal of «promoting the Progress of Science and useful Arts.»

Bankruptcy comes to our mind because that is our specialty, but others include tax law, international corporate law, complex product liability and copyright and patent law.

Vermont: In accordance with Vermont law, we will not share information we collect about Vermont residents with companies outside of our corporate family, except as permitted by law, such as with your consent, to service your accounts or to other financial institutions with which we have joint marketing agreements.

A leader in the chemical manufacturing industry in the US, Delaware's attractive corporate laws have attracted more corporations to headquarter in Delaware than in any other state.

However, this publication is not intended to cover bankruptcy law in general, or to provide detailed discussions of the tax rules for the more complex corporate bankruptcy reorganizations or other highly technical transactions.

Under the terms of the Advisory Agreement, each Fund is responsible for the payment of the following expenses among others: (a) the fees payable to the Adviser, (b) the fees and expenses of Trustees who are not affiliated persons of the Adviser or Distributor (as defined under the section entitled («The Distributor»)(c) the fees and certain expenses of the Custodian (as defined under the section entitled «Custodian») and Transfer and Dividend Disbursing Agent (as defined under the section entitled «Transfer Agent»), including the cost of maintaining certain required records of the Fund and of pricing the Fund's shares, (d) the charges and expenses of legal counsel and independent accountants for the Fund, (e) brokerage commissions and any issue or transfer taxes chargeable to the Fund in connection with its securities transactions, (f) all taxes and corporate fees payable by the Fund to governmental agencies, (g) the fees of any trade association of which the Fund may be a member, (h) the cost of fidelity and liability insurance, (i) the fees and expenses involved in registering and maintaining registration of the Fund and of shares with the SEC, qualifying its shares under state securities laws, including the preparation and printing of the Fund's registration statements and prospectuses for such purposes, (j) all expenses of shareholders and Trustees» meetings (including travel expenses of trustees and officers of the Trust who are not directors,

He also serves as corporate art consultant to the international law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and several other corporations.

Jodi's original works and commissions are in the collections of law firms, healthcare facilities, financial institutions, hotels, and other diverse corporate and private clients.

Secondly, the other comments were about the front «access» page, which ahd a lot more to do with (A) corporate lawyers and (B) the legal minefield that is internation liquor laws... both which IMHO they addressed upfront in this comment section, and with candor.

Under PM's Vice President of Corporate Affairs Ellen Merlo, the department was responsible for the formation of the smokers rights front group the National Smokers Alliance, a fake «grassroots» group set up to protest public smoking laws, cigarette tax increases and other public health measures.

In that capacity, he supervised the work of the Land Law, Environment Law, Natural Resources Law, Consumer Law, Civil Rights Enforcement, Antitrust and Corporate Fraud Sections of the Office, among others.

Ohio is currently fighting this year's final battle in a nationally - coordinated attack on clean energy standard laws, implemented by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and other groups belonging to the secretive corporate front group umbrella known as the State Policy Network (SPN).

ALEC is a corporate bill mill — it brings companies like Duke, Exxon, Koch Industries, Phillip Morris and other bad actors together with conservative state lawmakers in order to draft laws.

In Ohio and other states, ALEC dodges lobby laws through corporate - funded «scholarship» programs that are thoroughly documented by the Center for Media and Democracy through open records requests.

The graduating batch of 2017 has found internship and employment opportunities with leading law firms, corporates, senior counsels, think - tanks, start - ups, and public policy organizations, among others.

Other factors at play could also be female Aboriginal lawyers leaving because of family pressures, Aboriginal lawyers not wanting to practise in a mainstream area such as corporate law, lack of opportunity within some areas, and not wanting to move away from their own band and family.

At the end of his post, Kevin suggests that law firms go beyond other legal websites when looking to innovate, and check out other corporate websites.

No doubt, any experienced law librarian knows and has a direct route to key govn't lawyers for whom they provide reference for their corporate lawyers / other professionals on interpretation / application of legislative clauses, etc..

MacEwen finds this a powerful number, though I'm a little skeptical — I think that other factors may explain the retention rate, such as increased law school tuition costs forcing women to stay in the workforce longer to repay loans and more women deferring children until they advance up the corporate ladder.

More than eight years ago, I wrote a blog post (http://www.law21.ca/2008/01/divided-profession-collective-governance/) that suggested a future regulatory system in which different areas of law were governed separately from each other, on the basis that estates lawyers didn't know nearly enough about corporate M&A law to effectively govern its practitioners, and vice versa.

In Europe and the United States it has become very common for corporate entities and, more recently, law firms to outsource legal work, including agency work, document review, due diligence, legal research and writing, drafting of pleadings and other litigation support, contract management, and patent and other IP services.

Nancy Rapoport's Blogspot has information about «all sorts of things — governance in higher education and in law firms, bankruptcy ethics, popular culture and the law, Enron and other corporate fiascos, professional responsibility generally, movies, ballroom and Latin dancing» and anything else that gets the author's attention.

This blog provides updates on working papers, seminars, speakers, and other activities sponsored by the Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance.