For those following the NIR Group saga, the litigation is notable because it unveils Highmount as an institutional investor of NIR Group.
See the case of Nir Rosen a journalist who lost a fellowship at NYU after saying questionable things about Lara Logan on Twitter.
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In July, the SEC subpoenaed documents from NIR Group, the Long Island hedge fund firm run by Corey Ribotsky that specializes in PIPEs, in an investigation focusing on the performance valuations of NIR's family of hedge funds and communications NIR made to investors.
The task force is comprised of civil servants, NIR staff and members of the parent company, Northern Ireland Transport Holdings.
His NIR family of hedge funds, based in Roslyn, N.
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The efforts of hedge funds like NIR Group and Laurus Capital Management to turbocharge their returns by focusing on penny stocks and PIPEs have been the subject of several articles in Forbes over the last three years.
Amid the depths of the 2008 financial crisis, NIR, like many hedge funds, suspended investor redemptions.
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When it comes to Internet security, Nir Zuk is one of the visionaries.
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Dworkin is the only individual to be formally charged as a result of a long running federal investigation into NIR Group.
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Nir Shaviv, a professor of astrophysics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, showed how cosmic rays account for much recent global warming.
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In September, he and his colleagues pre-printed a paper on the subject which did not acknowledge the contribution to the field of two researchers called Arnon Dar and Nir Shaviv.
The litigation shows that PIPE Equity Partners has written down its stakes in an NIR Group fund down to 30% of the last reported net asset value.
The NIR method is highly specific for the detection of different kinds of fatty acids and it is intended to develop a database of fingerprints for different fatty acid components in algal biomass, with which to analyse actual algae.
In these deals NIR would provide cash to a publicly-traded company in exchange for a convertible debenture that entitled NIR to receive interest and repayment in the form of cash or discounted equity securities.
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"CFast2.0 memory cards will help drive the future of professional photography and video-recording applications, " said Shuki Nir, senior vice president and general manager, Retail, SanDisk.
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Former NIR Group investment analyst Daryl Dworkin has pleaded guilty to charges of securities fraud, according to a letter sent by the U.S. attorney in Brooklyn to investors of the Long Island hedge fund firm.
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But researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York have pinpointed one reason for Tauber's longevity: her DNA. Examining the genes of Tauber and 350 other Ashkenazi Jews who are nearing age 100, Nir Barzilai and his colleagues have identified three genes that appear to promote long life by protecting against the diseases of old age.
But by the summer of 2009 it was clear that the SEC and federal prosecutors in Brooklyn had opened investigations into NIR.
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Ivica Olic scored the only goal of the game in the 62nd minute, stroking the ball into the empty net after keeper Nir Davidovic parried Mario Gomez's 20-yard strike into his path.
Psychologists Nir Halevy, Yair Berson, and Adam Galinsky set out to find the answer in a series of new studies, pitting one style of leadership against the other to see which style is generally preferred, and why.
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