Sentences with phrase «over a business deal»

«Questions over business deals of UN climate change guru Dr Rajendra Pachauri,» The Telegraph, December 20, 2009.

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The rest of the tale is hearsay: that a heavily indebted Heywood, a former family friend and fixer who had helped get Bo junior into Harrow (Heywood's prestigious alma mater in England) had demanded a bigger cut of a business deal; that he threatened to expose underhanded dealings by Gu if he didn't get it; that Bo's police chief, Wang Lijun, had confronted him over the alleged murder (the death was originally put down to alcohol poisoning), after which Wang sought asylum at an American consulate; that Gu had shown up at a police station in a People's Liberation Army major - general's uniform to announce that she was under special orders from Beijing to «protect» Comrade Wang; that the couple had plotted to assassinate Wang and came up with three separate storylines to avoid being implicated.

They were negotiating with Warner Music over the rights to publish and annotate the company's lyrics on their site, having already made similar deals with all the other key publishers, and thereby dodging a serious legal threat to the site's business model.

That debate developed over a few years, he says, and when it started to heat up, his attention was elsewhere — trying to launch Alpha's listings business and then dealing with the TMX acquisition.

Robinson was arrested along with Rashon Nelson as they waited for a third person, so they could discuss a business deal over drinks in the cafe.

Over the last five years — from 2010 to 2014 — 38 percent of deals and 43 percent of dollars went to businesses in the valley.

If Congress can't come to a deal over how to reduce the budget, numerous small businesses could be affected.

They create good relationships over the long run rather than turn and burn through deal after deal as no one will do business with them twice.

But he also, at the time, said he would be open to renegotiating the deal, which was agreed by nearly 200 nations over the course of years — drawing ridicule from world and business leaders who said that would be impossible.

It is worth noting that today business deals are closed over video conferencing rather than startup owners having to cross oceans every time a global project comes up.

During his unsuccessful battle with EQT over its acquisition of Rice, Rosenstein pushed EQT to abandon the deal and instead spin off its transportation business into a separately traded company.

But he can sell as much as 100 % in a single transaction — or, most commonly, a series of deals spread out over a decade or so, during which time the owner gradually transfers ownership and day - to - day management of the business.

But they're certain to become even more challenging, and costly, for small business owners if Congress and President Obama fail to negotiate a deal to prevent the U.S. from heading over the so - called fiscal cliff on December 31.

The new generation of business is taking deal making to a wilder side - to ski runs, mountain - biking trails and zip - lines over tree tops.

Toshiba and Western Digital, which jointly invest in Toshiba's key plant in central Japan, failed to seal a deal by Toshiba's target date last week due to disagreement over the U.S. firm's future stake in the business.

For that reason, Northrop shares edged up only 0.3 % in early trading Monday, suggesting that, while the deal made lots of sense over the long term, the price is pretty full and the buyer has less practice than some at integrating new businesses, especially big ones.

The idea of the deal was to help build up Walgreens» prescription business to better compete with CVS Health (cvs) and vastly expand its store footprint at a time CVS was improving its stores and getting ready to take over Target's (tgt) pharmacy business.

We've learned a great deal over the last couple of years, which lets us continue to set the curve and raise the bar for what really matters if you want to help entrepreneurs build better businesses.

Economic conditions have made it more difficult to close deals; however, business brokers are reporting a record number of buyer inquiries as a result of the huge number of corporate layoffs over the last six to nine months.

«Taken together,» the authors conclude, «our results find little or no evidence of deterioration in the performance of daily deal promotions over the past year (April - May 2011 to May 2012) for small - and medium - sized businesses or with experience as the business operator runs multiple daily deals.

Marking its 15th anniversary year, BFS Capital, a leading small business financing platform, announced it has now extended over $ 1.7 billion in financing since funding its first deal in 2002.

Under the deal, Fujifilm will own just over 50 percent of the Xerox business.

Why Goldman Sachs, which has had its own share of bad publicity over the years and always talks about being in the business of making sound judgments, would actively participate in a deal for a major gun retailer is baffling.

Under a deal announced in January, Fujifilm will own just over half of Xerox's business.

Essentially, lumped together, those retailers dealing in the same businesses where Amazon has a market share or is looking to grow one have not fared nearly as well over the years.

Before the election, Cohen paid $ 130,000 in hush money to Stormy Daniels to keep her from speaking out about her alleged affair with Trump, and he helped orchestrate countless business deals and legal maneuvers for Trump over the past several years.

While investors have been thrilled, pushing the stock price up nearly 40 per cent over the 12 months before the deal was announced, critics argued that 3G's efforts to transform the day - to - day aspects of business — overhauling Burger King's tarnished reputation and developing innovative new menu items — remain a work in progress.

The deal follows a month of speculation, and it will see Grab — which is valued at over $ 6 billion — buy up Uber's ride - sharing business in eight countries in Southeast Asia.

Three years ago, Apollo Global Capital — with its own plans to more rapidly transform the print business to digital — almost bought DFM, but that deal foundered at its end over price.

Moody's said the deal and CVA plans had helped ease concerns over the financial state of the business.

The U.S. and China look to «spend the next year developing how we deal with each other over a period of time,» Lighthizer told U.S. business leaders on Tuesday.

In order to deal with this burden, Kevin took out a short - term loan to tide his businesses over.

Our experienced Credit Team has over 100 years» combined experience dealing with business loan applications, so you can rest assured your business is treated on a case - by - case basis.

Leveraging her experience as a business owner and marketing expertise, Jess has worked with the YAI team to grow membership by over 45 %, as well as increase deal flow, number of deals completed and amount invested.

I've recounted over the past year the many allegations that Ferro — in rejecting Gannett, in making business deals with those formerly associated with his Wrapports company (that ownership now held in trust, he says), and in doing private placements of shares or now selectively buying back shares, as he's done with Oaktree — has not acted in the best interests of all shareholders.

The deal also offers investors clarity on the future of Kraft following months of speculation over how it would remedy its beleaguered business, she said.

More than half (57 percent) said the national economy has improved over the last year, and about a quarter of business owners said their businesses had benefited a great deal from the improved national economy over the past year.

When the time comes to sell your business, you may decide to hand the task over to a business broker who has more experience than you in negotiating such deals.

With the sugar business accounting for over 13 % of revenue during the past fiscal year, stripping it out of certain parts of the LTIP may seem like an overly sweet deal for executives, as the value of the company will continue to be based on the final reported financials, in which that business will be included.

Bankers and others involved in business with Iran say they have been reluctant to travel to the country to close deals or negotiate the financing of existing ones because of uncertainty over the status of underlying U.S. sanctions, even before the latest standoff between Trump and Iran.

Private equity firms may never get over the barbarians at the gate label brought on them by the legendary RJR Nabisco deal of 1988, but they are a critical part of the business ecosystem.

Accolade, which is 80 per cent owned by private equity firm CHAMP, has installed a new general manager into the Grant Burge Wines business in Jeff Bond, who had been chief executive of Peter Lehmann Wines for five years until it was taken over by Casella Wines in late 2014 in a $ 57 million buyout deal.

In a speech to the COSBOA National Small Business Summit in Melbourne yesterday, ACCC Chairman, Rod Sims, reiterated that the ACCC was «looking at concerns raised about the way in which the major supermarket chains deal with their suppliers» and noted that they related to the potential for unconscionable conduct and «concerns over the misuse of market power, particularly in relation to private label products.»

«The menu will cater to a variety of guests, whether it's closing a deal over a business lunch or unwinding on weekends with friends.

Wenger has already done some business with Petr Cech last summer, and with Mourinho out of the way perhaps Arsene could go and have another chat with Abramovich over Eden Hazard, and gently suggest that the Blues could have the Ox as a sweetener for the deal?

with sanchez and ozil both going in january we need someone to get transfer deals over the line instead of stalling and then loosing out on players something has to change with the way we do our transfer business so i am all for bringing in this guy provided he is give the tools to succeed!!

Nou Camp officials watched Schalke's 2 - 0 win over RB Leipzig on Saturday and it is claimed that the Catalan outfit have decided to try and tempt the midfielder's club into doing business having so far failed to strike a deal with Liverpool for Philippe Coutinho.

Drug manufacturer Novartis AG said it plans to take over Alcon Inc. in a deal that broadens its business away from prescription drugs and makes it one of the biggest players in the global market for eye - care products.

Porn star Stormy Daniels said that she was threatened in 2011 over an interview in which she claimed to have had unprotected sex with President Trump — and that their relationship was like «a business deal» for her to appear on the reality TV show he hosted at the time.

For example, in the early 1990s, Lloyd Williams, a political and business associate of Inez Dickens and her father dating back at least to the 1970s, and head of the Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce and its development arm the Greater Harlem Housing Development Corporation, presided over a disastrous sweetheart real - estate deal with the City that wound up costing the taxpayers almost $ 4 million.