Sentences with phrase «private law firm law»

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The mining sector is still providing abundant work opportunities for law firms, from contract disputes to potential private equity acquisitions.

Monica Zent is the founder and CEO of Foxwordy, a private social network for lawyers and founder of ZentLaw, an alternative law firm.

Folsom, an American who worked for Bain & Co. in Tokyo after college before founding one of the first private equity firms in Japan, hired the biggest Japanese law firm and petitioned the court to change the bankruptcy to a so - called «civil rehabilitation.»

CHICAGO, Feb 16 - U.S. agricultural merchants are scrambling to register themselves as cooperatives after a blunder in the country's new tax law gave farmers a tax break for selling grains to co-ops rather than private firms.

In his day job, Prichard is non-executive chair of Bay Street law firm Torys LLP, where he specializes in arbitration and public - private partnerships.

«The larger exemption provides a lot of planning opportunities for people who own businesses or other assets that they expect to go up in value,» said Michelle Canerday, head of the private client group in Chicago for law firm Nixon Peabody.

Cyber crime ignores borders by its nature, and fighting it requires an unusually high level of cooperation between the companies under attack, the private security firms they hire for protection and investigations, and the law enforcement agencies in multiple countries that try to track hackers down.

The unit has a fraction of the paralegal and administrative help of even a small private law firm.

The same would go for a Navy reservist who joins a private law firm that happens to have a sovereign wealth fund as a client — even if the reservist doesn't work on that account.

Despite acrimonious relations between Russia and the United States in recent years, experts on cyber security in both countries say their law enforcement agencies and private firms had been working together more closely behind the scenes to fight financial fraud and other crimes committed online.

Stoyanov worked for the cyber crime unit at Russia's Interior Ministry from 2001 - 2006 before leaving law enforcement for the private sector, first for a large Internet service provider and then for Indrik, a small Russian Internet security firm.

A graduate of Harvard and the University of Chicago Law School, he made a fortune running private equity firm Oak Hill Capital.

Some of the best firms that sell cyber security services to private clients also perform work as government contractors and employ law enforcement veterans for their expertise.

To mount his challenge to EPA's rule to reduce carbon pollution from power plants, he took the unusual step of accepting free help from a private law firm.

«The administration had made it very clear they are changing the thrust of U.S. policy to allow the private sector in Cuba to blossom,» said Pedro Freyre, chair of law firm Akerman LLP's international practice.

«People who do private - equity investments right are very shrewd and very driven to focus on key issues like investment return and exit strategies,» says Gary Simon, a partner at the New York City - based law firm Jenkens & Gilchrist Parker Chapin.

In the event that you are currently involved in legal proceedings, the private law firm Jaroslawicz & Jaros says that it's better not to post at all.

A private - school attendee with a father who made partner at a law firm, Gates isn't exactly a rags to riches story.

The rule of law is one, according to studies from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the law firm Hogan Lovells; in countries with strong rule of law, government officials as well as individuals and private entities are predictable, reliable, and held to account.

Over the course of his private practice legal career, Jimmy was a partner at three major U.S. law firms — most recently Davis Wright Tremaine LLP.

Previously, Gates had a lawyer from private law firm, with whom he cut ties just before his indictment.

Since the U.K. eliminated its tax on income earned outside the country several years ago, it's become increasingly popular for so - called corporate inversions, a controversial practice in which a foreign company buys a U.K. company, primarily to lower its tax bill, says Andrew Needham, a tax partner at law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore, which specializes in private equity and hedge funds.

Services, on the other hand, span a variety of community, business, and personal service industries that include hotels, professional sports franchises, private health care, and engineering and law firms.

Before his time with BlackRock, Mr. Collier was in private legal practice focusing on the investment management industry at a leading Canadian business law firm.

Before joining West Coast, Gavin practiced Aboriginal law at a private firm where he represented Indigenous Nations on issues related to land use and management, environmental assessments, provincial regulatory decision - making, implementation of modern treaties and Indigenous governance.

«Most hedge funds, private equity funds, law, consulting, and accounting firms are partnerships; these businesses can be large, global enterprises,» Brookings» Aaron Krupkin and Adam Looney write.

Ahead of Mr. Zuckerberg's trip to Washington, Facebook has hired a team from the law firm WilmerHale as well as outside consultants to coach him on questions lawmakers may ask, and on how to pace his answers and react if interrupted, according to people close to the preparations, who would speak only anonymously because the sessions were private.

Private - equity firms have been subject to SEC scrutiny since the passage of the Dodd - Frank financial reform law in 2010.

He returned to Hong Kong in 1999 to work in a private client law firm, becoming a director of trust and legal affairs at an international trust company after that.

Those cases include decisions addressing the jurisdiction of the SEC, the CFTC and bank regulators over newly created derivatives and other financial instruments; the scope of the definition of a «security»; the availability of private damage actions; extraterritorial application of U.S. securities and futures laws; the standards of liability for fraud and manipulation; electronic trading markets; and the scope of fiduciary obligations of brokerage firms and banks.

The summit will bring together exclusively senior - level representatives from: independent sponsors, private equity firms, family offices, hedge funds, BDCs, SBICs, mezzanine lenders, senior lenders, pension funds, endowments, M&A Intermediaries, accounting firms, law firms, and brokers.

The telecom, media and technology (TMT) sector, along with financial institutions, private equity and natural resources, are likely to be the busiest areas for M&A in the year ahead, according to global law firm Linklaters.

Public knowledge facilitators, such as governments and business associations, along with private knowledge facilitators, such as consulting firms, law firms, and banks, play crucial but different roles in supporting Canadian investments in China.

Benesch is an international business law firm that counts the middle market alternative investment industry among its core focus areas — from representation of private equity firms...

«The problem is the more underhand activity, whether it is employed by consultants, think tanks, law firms, in - house lobbyists or private individuals.

When he took over the top post last year as Senate majority leader, John Flanagan announced he was leaving his private - practice law firm.

Mr. Silver, an attorney by trade, collected more than $ 6 million in outside income from two private law firms since 2002.

As an associate at a private Manhattan law firm, Zellnor remained committed to public service.

According to Pettit, the first task to avoid private domination is «to firm up the infrastructure of nondomination, providing as far as possible for a resilient economy, a reliable rule of law, an inclusive knowledge system, a sound health system, and a sustainable environment».

Partly as a result of those letters, the main factions of legislature have hired private attorneys from prominent law firms.

The private law firm made the following demands:

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration and the legislature are spending around $ 1.3 million this year in payments to private law firms, and the public is paying for it, says a fiscally conservative study center.

Earlier in the year, the Speaker of the Assembly was arrested and charged with running multi million dollar fraud scheme through manipulation of his connections with two private law firms.

Several, including Senate Leader Skelos, earn over $ 100,000 a year from private law firms, according to financial disclosure forms that they are already required to fill out.

Senate GOP Leader Dean Skelos, who works part time at a private law firm, says he expects to agree on a «robust» new disclosure law, but concedes that it may only apply to new law clients, not existing business arrangements.

The reforms were proposed after the former Assembly Speaker, Sheldon Silver, was arrested and charged with illegally gaining millions of dollars from two private law firms by improperly using his political influence.

Mr. Silver collected more than $ 6 million in outside income from two private law firms since 2002, according to the complaint.

Former speaker Sheldon Silver was arrested in late January and charged with running a multi million dollar fraud scheme that included payments from two private law firms.

Even if Silver was taking the money and not detailing it — he recently admitted the $ 650,000 in outside earnings he listed on his 2013 disclosure form included private law clients in addition to payments from Weitz & Luxenberg, a large plaintiff's firm — a failure of disclosure is not a federal offense.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver used his office to mask millions of dollars in «bribes and kickbacks» as legitimate outside income from two private law firms over more than a decade, according to a bombshell 35 - page criminal complaint filed by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara today.