Sentences with phrase «year as a firm»

New types of computer memory pop up every few years as firms such as HP, IBM, Motorola / Freescale and even startups try to create alternatives that are cheaper, faster, more dense or otherwise offer a different series of trade - offs than the dominant forms of memory used today.

But one broker source said that a chunk of Cushman's large operation of midmarket brokers, many of them Massey Knakal alumni, may be tempted to move on in the next two years as the firm grows its big - ticket capital markets business.

The number of active clients has increased by 8.5 per cent year - on - year as the firm continues bleeding cash.

This particular case involved a 59 - year - old employee who was dismissed without explanation after 14 years as his firm's top salesperson.

Total number of promotions falls by a third on year as firm promotes four to the London partnership

Eversheds has announced a 6.5 % rise in revenue in the 2015 - 16 financial year as the firm's profit per equity partner (PEP) remained broadly static.

During our first year as a firm, we quickly realized we needed assistance in managing our cases and trusts.

Last year, Bevan Brittan took its largest graduate trainee and apprentice intake for seven years as the firm continues to grow across its offices in Bristol, Birmingham, Leeds and London.

Jeff headed the firm's Intellectual Property Practice Group, worked with the commercial and entertainment litigation groups as well as the transactional group, and served for ten years as the firm's Marketing Partner.

In the mean time, think about what you are trying to accomplish this year as a firm (or team, or with your specific practice) and try to frame them in the context of some SMART goals.

Leipold says he fears that layoffs of compensation partners - which tend to occur far more quietly than those involving associate lawyers, who feel no compunction about alerting legal blogs to the bad news - may continue and even intensify this year as firms push work down the law - firm hierarchy to less expensive and more profitable associates.

«We anticipate that sharing this information will increase in coming years as firms focus more on overall business - driven decision making and less on individual attorneys — a shift from the «me» approach to the «we» approach.»

Bevan Brittan, is taking its largest graduate trainee and apprentice intake for seven years as the firm continues to grow.

CMS Cameron McKenna's UK revenue jumped 37 % last year as the firm completed the integration of Scottish firm Dundas & Wilson, which it merged with in May 2014.

Not exact matches

When the meal was through, they had learned a lot about him — his years working abroad, his days as a partner at an IT consulting firm, and his time on Wall Street.

The number of active Corporate VCs — which serve as the investment arms of giant firms and include Intel Capital, Bloomberg Beta and GE Ventures — has grown by 15.5 percent year - over-year between 2011 and 2015, compared to a growth rate of 12.8 percent overall for VCs of any type in the same period, according to data from CB Insights.

The investment indicator in the Business Outlook Survey weakened significantly from the summer report, as the balance of opinion between firms planning more spending on machinery and equipment versus those predicting less dropped to 17 per cent from 29 per cent in the summer and 35 per cent at the start of the year.

Employment services firm Community First International has reported an influx of jobseekers as Western Australia's unemployment rate hits a three - year high.

Late last year, Giza contracted a Russian firm known as Third Pin LLC to make the devices it would eventually sell.

As the booming firms on this year's STARTUP 50 ranking know, success only really comes after the «aha» moment

Mervyn Kitay has been anointed as chief executive in waiting at Crowe Horwath Perth, Western Australia's eight biggest accounting firm, taking over from Geoff Kidd, who has run the partnership for the past 19 years.

Michael Khouw is a 20 year veteran of the financial services industry with broad experience as a strategist, analyst, portfolio manager and proprietary trader of equities, commodities and equity and index derivatives for both buy - side and sell - side firms.

Woods Bagot has been ranked seventh in a list of the world's top 100 architecture firms for the second consecutive year, with the company's Perth studio emerging as one of its most strategically important.

Not many CEOs have engineered the kind of transformation that van Houten has executed at Philips, steering the 126 - year - old Dutch firm through a «radical pivot,» as he calls it — transforming an Old World maker of electronics and lighting into a leader in health care technology.

Mark Briggs has been representing businesses and their owners for nearly 20 years, first as an associate and partner at the national law firm Quarles & Brady and now with Briggs Law Group, which he founded in 2009.

It all lends credence to Tehrani's claim that, from the outset 15 years ago, he sought to build a different kind of biotechnology firm — «a truly rational drug development company,» as he puts it.

Daniel Miessler, advisory services director at the cybersecurity firm IOActive, has a recommendation that «would cost infinitely less than the dumpster fire of products we constantly purchase and deploy for millions of dollars a year,» as he writes on his personal blog: simply hire a couple of people to maintain a catalog.

In some cases, family firms should be thinking about «intergenerational partnerships,» which see parents and adult children sharing managerial authority for an extended period — perhaps as long as 10 or 15 years.

Dealmaking in 2016 may surpass this year's levels as acquisitions of distressed assets and firms accelerate, particularly in the energy sector, says Robert Profusek of Jones Day.

Laurence Fink, CEO of BlackRock Inc., the world's largest investment firm, caused a stir earlier this year when he suggested in a speech that people are opting for contemporary art, Bitcoins and especially apartments from London to Vancouver as a safe store of wealth in the place of gold.

By late last year, people — investors, angels, venture capital firms — were all overpaying for growth in technology startups and stocks, just as they had been 14 years earlier at the height of the last bubble.

So the firm expects earnings - per - share growth to slow in the second half of the year as the positive effect wears off.

It's been 60 years since he started his investment - counselling firm, which now manages more than $ 36 billion in pensions and endowment funds, as well as corporate and private portfolios.

We have always believed that the Employment Tribunal's decision from last year October was entirely correct in saying that our GMB member clients were entitled to workers» right such as the minimum wage and holiday pay,» said Nigel Mackay, employment solicitor at Leigh Day, the firm that represented the union members.

Mr. Siegal, who for nine years served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York, joins Mintz Levin from Haynes and Boone, where he co-chaired the firm's Government Enforcement and Litigation Practice Group.

It should come as no surprise then, that many of this year's winning firms are run by serial entrepreneurs with money to burn.

«We often use that service as the thin edge of the wedge,» says Kureluk, pointing out that this software gives Yardstick the opportunity to upsell other products and services to its customers, such as the «e-learning» software tools developed by a firm that Yardstick bought earlier this year and sold online.

In 1993, Conlon joined one of Chicago's top real estate firms at the time, and within only a few short years, he had made a name for himself as one of the most prolific sellers of residential real estate throughout not only Chicago and and the Midwest, but also the entire U.S. with sales approaching $ 200 million annually.

She spent 25 years as the head of talent for various law firms before heading out on her own.

«After a challenging first half, the firm performed well for the remainder of the year as the operating environment improved,» CEO Lloyd Blankfein said in a statement.

She has more than 20 years of experience as a B2B marketing and business development leader at top technology, professional service, and marketing firms.

Hamilton and her staff — she now has a full team that includes Kimberlin as a venture partner — don't expect to see any returns on their investments within the next five years, so in the meantime, it's important that they, like many other top VC firms, help these founders get to the next stage.

As Philips CEO Frans van Houten has transformed the one - time electronics and lighting maker into a health care technology company, he's also put the 126 - year - old Dutch firm on track toward a more sustainable future.

Her firm signed on, joining Guggenheim Partners, Jones Lang LaSalle, Perella Weinberg Partners, Nasdaq, Yale, and Duke as just a few of RelSci's first 300 customers last year.

«As firms attempt to adapt to ever - changing political and technological circumstances, global M&A (mergers and acquisitions) has stuttered over the summer, following a strong showing in the first half of the year,» Jonathan Klonowski, research editor EMEA at Mergermarket, said in a statement.

Three years before, as a 16 - year - old high school kid, Dan Price saw bar owners being gouged by big financial firms every time they swiped a patron's credit card.

Before founding her own firm in 2005, she was a perennial leader as the head of technical research at Smith Barney for 25 years.

Indeed, this trend was backed up by data showing China «s imports rose for the first time in nearly two years in August as firms restocked and wholesale inflation expectations rose.

The news and publishing industries are on no firmer ground than a year ago as the quest for a sustainable business model continues.

It appears there's plenty more room for growth as well: According to market research firm Mintel, total U.S. retail juice sales will top $ 8.6 billion this year and exceed $ 8.8 billion in 2020.