Sentences with phrase «say trade lawyers»
«The fact that we have the Canada-U.S. free - trade agreement as a fall back gives us greater leverage in a negotiation,» said trade lawyer Matthew Kronby, a former Canadian trade negotiator who is now a partner at law firm Bennett Jones in Toronto.
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Alphabet's Waymo unit is seeking about $ 2.6 billion from Uber for the alleged theft of one of several trade secrets in a lawsuit over self - driving cars, a lawyer for Uber said on Wednesday.
And a full - scale tariff war with China would likely expose the largest U.S. export sectors to steep duties, including aircraft, semiconductors, corn and soybeans, trade lawyers said.
Lawyers and prosecutors say that requiring such proof would make it harder for authorities to pursue insider trading cases, potentially preventing prosecutions in which corporate executives tip friends or relatives without any tangible quid pro quo.
A lawyer by trade, Schriver initially intended to make a «career pit stop in 2000, at the small, but profitable language company, but I soon realized the potential,» he says.
«I'm getting calls from companies asking if they can petition for exemptions [from the metal tariffs],» said Doreen Edelman, a Washington - based trade lawyer with law firm Baker Donelson, told the South China Morning Post in an interview.
Corporations just want to make sure their trading costs are contained and are indifferent about who is on their side, said one lawyer in Washington who has worked on derivatives reform.
The news agency, citing two anonymous sources, said that Walgreens» plan announced last month to sell 865 drugstores to tiny regional rival Fred's (fred) for $ 950 million hadn't convince the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's lawyers to sign off on the deal.
Herbalife's lawyer «implied that Pershing Square may have altered its bet against Herbalife before the letter's public release, saying that Herbalife discovered a series of trades that were «consistent with Mr. Ackman's ongoing efforts to manipulate Herbalife's stock.»»
«I'm becoming more and more of the view that the proposals we're seeing are poison pills,» said Dan Ujczo, an Ohio - based international trade lawyer with the firm Dickinson Wright.
A pattern of insulin makers matching each others price increases «certainly indicates a market that isn't competitively healthy,» said David Balto, an antitrust lawyer and former Federal Trade Commission policy director.
CARACAS Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA has sued a group of oil trading companies through a U.S. trust over a multi-billion dollar corruption scheme to buy petroleum products below market value, the lawyer representing the trust said on Thursday.
Some workers have started putting out feelers for new jobs, and Cohen has reduced his own trading to spend more time with lawyers, said the people.
Although Kulikov's criminal prosecution makes no mention of the German lender by name, investigators did quiz several witnesses in detail about Deutsche Bank and the mirror trades, say lawyers and witnesses in the case.
«The benefits of free trade have been diluted as the U.S. entered into other trade agreements, and would be diluted further under the [Trans - Pacific Partnership],» says Mr. Herman, the trade lawyer.
On the other hand, back in April, after reading that same language, Allergan's lawyers said that Pershing and Valeant «took express pains to sidestep Rule 14e - 3 which outlaws insider - trading in connection with a tender offer, by styling themselves as co-bidders and not (yet) proceeding towards a tender offer.»
«We're being faced with a U.S. set of demands that is framed by an «America first» perspective,» Lawrence Herman, a Toronto trade lawyer, said.
«It's not ripping up Nafta, but there are a bunch of sticks of dynamite contained in those pages,» said Mark Warner, a Canadian - American trade lawyer based in Toronto.
«In terms of what we consider to be President Trump's economic nationalist objectives and what he has said previously about Nafta, the list of negotiating terms was relatively benign,» said Scott S. Lincicome, an international trade lawyer at White & Case.
Ohio - based trade lawyer Dan Ujczo said he's been surprised that all the supposedly «low - hanging fruit» — issues that weren't considered controversial, like bringing the pre-internet NAFTA into the digital age — is still hanging.
«I suspect they would go to the U.S.,» Toronto trade lawyer Mark Warner said.
Jeremy Kudon, a lawyer who works with the Fantasy Sports Trade Association, said the sites are simply a «facilitator» for players creating their own pools.
New York - A lawyer for state Sen. Carl Kruger said Saturday that prosecutors have cleared the lawmaker of allegations that he traded bureaucratic favors for campaign contributions.
Now it may be the case that Ahlam Jaoui of her parents» house in Bay Ridge, who is signed up to find work as a trade show brand ambassador, who is willing to pose wearing a hijab and say that she wants to drive a taxi, and whose LinkedIn profile lists her as still working for an out - of - business investment company, is also a well - positioned power broker who can convince lawyers and business owners in Westchester and New Jersey to contribute thousands of dollars to Mayor de Blasio's re-election campaign.
Silver has continued to maintain his innocence — his lawyers argued that no witness ever said there was an explicit agreement trading political favors for money.
Mr Hands, MP for Chelsea and Fulham, said that his department had a strong core of trade policy officials which had quadrupled in size since June 24 last year — the day after the EU referendum — and was continuing to grow, with policy and country specialists as well as economic analysts and lawyers.
«Yes, America has a legitimate concern about cyber hacking and trade secrets theft,» says Brian Sun, a trial lawyer with Jones Day in Los Angeles, California, who represented Lee in a successful civil suit against the U.S. government.
A lawyer for Rajendra Pachauri says that preventing the former IPCC chairman from delivering a speech at a trade show in Greece will damage India's image and harm Pachauri's reputation.
Because writing as a trade has no governing board, and nothing to certify writers as professionals (unlike, say, lawyers), there was and is no way to know if the writer giving information really has knowledge or is just guessing.
Maybe 10 to 15 trades a day,» says Tim Clarke, a lawyer with Calgary's Moodys Gartner Tax Law LLP, which is preparing to challenge the tax agency's interpretation.
A lawyer for Rajendra Pachauri says that preventing the former IPCC chairman from delivering a speech at a trade show in Greece will damage India's image and harm Pachauri's reputation.
Technology experts and lawyers who specialize in this area say it is an issue that needs to be top of mind for all businesses whether they are relatively small or are publicly traded and have operations outside of Canada.
Attorney Ned Ogueri Zeribe Law Office: The international law lawyer, in contrast to say, injury lawyers, upholds treaties or agreements made, deals with trading regulations, and preserve the most basic of human rights.
The New York Times Bits Blog mentions some of the legal issues in passing, noting that Michael Arrington of TechCrunch said that he has lawyers looking at the legal aspects of trade secrets and the receipt of stolen goods.
Gregory Tereposky, an international trade and investment lawyer at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, says this will create much - needed consistency of tribunal decisions in investor dispute cases, an area now plagued by discrepancies.
A Toronto lawyer says uncertainty caused by the renegotiation of NAFTA could be an opportunity for Canadian companies to strengthen their relationships in other foreign markets, and ultimately, lead to a better trade agreement for Canada.
Senior City partners say that UK firms lack the expertise to supply the UK government with lawyers to help negotiate new trade deals following the UK's vote to leave the European Union (EU).
Whether we should be more of a trade school to teach practising lawyers is a debate,» says Arbuckle.
A lawyer's time and advice are his stock in trade, said one of our nation's most famous lawyers, Abraham Lincoln.
«Young lawyers asked if students could undertake apprenticeships in the middle of law school studies, akin to trades training, or undertake articles in the midst of law school to allow students to refine their studies (when they return) to law school,» the report says.
Artificial intelligence will be woven into almost all the tools and services lawyers use to do their jobs and this will greatly assist them in enhancing productivity and making better legal decisions, a professional in the trade says.
The University of Miami School of Law is proud to say that the professors in the International Arbitration program are «world - class arbitrators» according to the International Who's Who of Commercial Arbitration, Chambers & Partners Global - wide, the Legal 500 in International Arbitration, and Top Lawyers in International Trade and Arbitration.
«Joanne is considered a leader and gifted strategist by lawyers who have worked with her,» said Amanda DeBusk, chair of Hughes Hubbard's International Trade Department.
Mr. Lee said he thinks the CLS Bank ruling, and its aftermath, might prompt some inventors and «endlessly creative lawyers» to rely on trademark or trade - secrets law, rather than patent law, to protect their ideas.
«The lawyers should be paying what is required for this fund because we trade on our reputation,» Debenham said.
«It's more nuanced than that,» says Milos Barutciski, Toronto - based international trade and investment lawyer at Bennett Jones LLP.
«I'm thinking of gathering together a group of like - minded lawyers in the near future to trade ideas and «peace - stories,» and further promote the concept,» Rose says.
Legal - fee auditor John Toothman, who heads The Devil's Advocate in Alexandria, Va., says he once reviewed bills in a case where lawyers on both sides of a trade - secret dispute each ran up about $ 500,000 in fees in just two months.
The details have yet to emerge, but Canada has scored a significant deal in reaching an agreement on the Trans - Pacific Partnership, says an international trade lawyer.
The lawyer should also find out how many companies were traded that the expert was not able to get data on, he says.