Other rules constraining law firm structure, such as rigid rules on conflicts of interest and restrictions on cross-border practice, may also fall.
What is genuinely new in all this is not so much the idea of bundling risks, but the idea that transferring them changes the firm's structure and cost of capital.
In March, MF started assessing its cost base, which includes the firm's compensation structure.
Many small-business owners haven't yet realized that the way they structure their firm in 2013 could determine their status under the law in a year's time.
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The high-level executive hire came as Goldman announced a new management structure for the firm post-Paulson.
Form BD contains some information that is important to investors and cannot be obtained elsewhere, such as the ownership structure of a firm.
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If the Treasury decides to take the first option, it will have some authority to determine the executive compensation structure of the firm.
Tom Furlong, Facebook's vice president of site operations, told Wired that there are hopes to create a similar structure alongside the firm's North Carolina data center.
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McGladrey is the next tier public accounting firm with the alternative practice structure and exposure to Madoff and Petters fraud litigation as well as responsibility for the Sentinel fraud.
As I have stated on numerous occasions, I am firm believer that the current structure of the amateur draft in baseball needs to be revised and a required slot money system has to be implemented.
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But giving each financial firm the ability to voluntarily structure themselves into two halves might allow banks to stay globally competitive while carving out that mythical realm of stability yearned for by main street businesses, bank depositors, and bailout weary taxpayers.
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We have made steps aimed at establishing a more firm construction of our relations -- structure of our relations.
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But Mr Brabeck is being notably ambitious: no firm of comparable complexity is making its management structure so flat.
The firm has also long benefited from the Indian structure of import duties.
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Royal Mail said that "preparations are now underway" for the firm's sale, adding that the "structure and timing of a transaction is a matter for the government".
Kinder and Morgan set their firm up as a master limited partnership, an obscure structure that had one key advantage: no corporate income taxes.
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He said his firm would put in place an "attractive" fare structure, including a 15% reduction in standard tickets and new categories of fares, including a new class between standard and first.
The Spanish neoclassical structure was built in 1930 by the American architectural firm of McKim, Mead and White, which also built New York's original Pennsylvania Station and the Breakers in Newport, Rhode Island.
When designing the interior of the structure, the global and award-winning design firm, Rapt Studio, included a level of brand implementation through artistic design that may just be unmatched by any other large tech company in the world, including murals by street artist El Mac and tattoo artist Mike Giant.
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The ownership structure of Lazard is so complex that even senior bankers at the firm do not understand it.
Yes, is the conclusion of stock analysts after the telecom software firm said it was undergoing a "strategic review of its corporate and capital structure" during a disappointing quarterly profit announcement late Thursday.
"EFH's capital structure is untenable, " says Carl Blake, analyst at bond research firm Gimme Credit.
In a private partnership, the people who run the firm, rather than outside shareholders, bear the brunt of losses a structure that discourages reckless risk-taking.
The glamour of being a part of a white shoe firm faded as she realized that the deals that she was working on all followed the same structure.
Art Gensler, one of the founders of the architecture firm Gensler, which designed the revamped terminal, noted that they kept much of the original structure of the building.
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France is supporting the former head of a state-owned firm to be the chairwoman of EADS, even as the company works to simplify its ownership structure and reduce government interference.
Recently, Netherlands banking firm ING announced that social, environmental and ethical components would form part of its top management executive pay structure.
Such is the obscurity of Softbank's tax arrangements, its corporate structure and the prospects of its investments that, to gain even a partial view of the firm's true value, you need to be a trained accountant, a stockmarket analyst and a private detective rolled into one.
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However, Lazard is still far from the one-firm concept perfected, for example, by Goldman Sachs, an investment bank that last month abandoned its partnership structure and became a public company.
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