Sentences with phrase «over competing firms»

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The emigrés started a competing firm, MxI Technologies, and before long they'd won over many of GasTOPS's largest clients.

Directors, creditors and shareholders are split over two competing rescue plans — one backed by Alceon, a private equity firm founded by former Babcock & Brown partners Trevor Loewensohn and Phil Green, and one proposed by independent SurfStitch non-executive director, former forensic accountant Abigail Cheadle.

Jessica Chastain gives a magnificent and thoroughly believable performance as a ruthless woman who will do anything to win in the amoral world she works in and the political «rats» whom the competing lobbying firms work to win over.

The company, Halliburton, which was run by former Vice-President Dick Cheney, was given $ 39.5 billion in Iraq - related contracts over the past decade, with many of the deals given without any bidding from competing firms.

In Japan, professional drifter Max Orido competes in a GT86 powered by a 5 - litre Lexus IS F V8, while also in Japan, tuner JUN has teamed up with New Zealand firm Synergy to create a 2.4 - litre V8 from two Kawasaki four - cylinder engines, resulting in a GT86 with over 350bhp and an 11,600 rpm red line.

While previous efforts had focused on comfort over performance, the ATS represents a firm departure, with Cadillac opting to compete with BMW on performance, emphasizing rear - wheel - drive handling and a lightweight body structure.

I chose Infinity over competing self - publishers because it ranked highest overall in the book, Top Self - Publishing Firms by Stacie Vander Pol.

As a result, railroading firms would compete with each other vigorously over price for long - distance hauling because their networks provided different routes to move goods efficiently between major population centers.

GE and Alstom won over competing bids from Polish construction firms Polimex - Mostostal and Rafako and China Power Engineering Consulting Group.

As he saw it, the FTC's workshop - whose outcome we won't know for some time - showed that there were two competing lobbies over the RECs as offsets issue: a coalition of U.S. and international energy firms that support RECs on one hand, and a diverse international array of offset aggregators, brokers and developers represented by organizations such as the International Emission Trading Association (IETA) which support offsets.

New research from Legal Week highlights the mountain that UK firms need to climb in order to compete for talent in a global marketplace, with partner profits at the top 10 US firms growing by roughly 50 % more than their equivalent UK rivals over the last five years.

Law firms all over the continent are going to find it increasingly hard to compete with other employers who can offer lawyers interesting work at a good salary.

Technology advancements over the last decade — blogs, social media, easily - updateable website content management systems like WordPress — have democratized content publishing and helped level the playing field, so that smaller firms can better compete against larger ones by showcasing their expertise.

While these may seem to be competing with law firms, it is worth pointing out that this type of automation takes over certain tasks, not jobs.

Consequently, top law firms fiercely compete against each other over a very small segment of the law student population.

There are over one million attorney profiles on Avvo; if even a fraction of those lawyers embed the badge on their sites, Avvo will receive thousands of links to its city pages, which are directly competing with individual law firms for search engine visibility.

Sixty - six percent of those law firm partners and managing partners surveyed by ALM over the summer declared they were either «very concerned» or «somewhat concerned» about their law firm's ability to compete with «alternative legal service providers» and accounting firms.

Over 100 European reputed law firms are competing in this year's edition for a total of 27 trophies, being rigurously judged by a pannel of 25 top executives and renowned partners of top tier law firms.

We have been shortlisted for the second time in row by an outstanding jury appointed by the leading UK publication The Lawyer for the purpose of The Lawyer European Awards 2016, from over 100 international and independent law firms competing for the 27 trophies offered, out of which 7 for the Law firm of the year: Romania Trophy.

Law firms have more work to compete over, but also have to appear better able to navigate existing clients through the changing landscape of compliance and enforcement, where new corporate offences need to be addressed and, where a call from an investigators office might now be more likely.

A firm that is pitching to new or existing clients can look up a prospect's litigation history and the records of competing firms to identify relevant areas where they hold an advantage over competitors and sharpen the impact of their presentation.

They work in five languages, over four continents, relying on likewise thinking firms and to compete with the best worldwide.

was written in the early summer of 2009, shortly after the completion of FutureFirm 1.0 — a «collaborative competition» in which teams of law firm partners, in - house lawyers, and junior associates competed with one another to create a law firm that would survive and thrive over the next 20 years.

The growing army of alternative platforms and rival providers, emerging and competing with law firms in the legal market over the next several years, will bring with them financial resources an order of magnitude beyond what lawyer - only equity can provide.

So given that there's the same or similar number of people claiming for an injury each year (albeit the number who are doing it online, indeed more and more from mobile devices, is still increasing), and given that competitors in the PI space online have continually increasing investment to meet competing higher media prices (eg Google Adwords is becoming more expensive for personal injury keywords — in the States some keywords eg «car crash attorney» ones are over $ 500 per click without any guarantee of making that a converted enquiry), and given more entrants into the market each year, pressures for many PI firms at the moment are understandably intense.

The New York venture capital firm Lerer Hippeau is poised to take over most of the stranded 25 companies in the portfolio of a competing firm that lost its partners in a sexual harassment scandal.