Hints and tips:
...embracing the lawyer Roy Cohn into the sculpture gallery....
...When we speak, he wears a double-breasted APC blazer with gold buttons over a T-shirt, a look that’s more yacht party than typical lawyer....
...Olsoff Cahill Cossu may not trip off the tongue, but the firm’s three founding lawyers — Jonathan Olsoff, John Cahill and Paul Cossu — are likely to be receiving calls....
...The governors: APC powerhouse Bola Tinubu (left) Governor 1999-2007 Born in Lagos in 1952 when the city was capital of what was then British-controlled Nigeria....
...“People see that their conditions are worsening,” said Clement Nwanko, a human rights lawyer....
...“The whole amnesty process became a moneymaking venture that abandoned the real issues”, says Port Harcourt-based human rights lawyer Anyakwee Nsirimovu, who sat on the 49-member committee that drafted the...
...According to Ha’aretz, EAPC’s main shareholder is APC Holdings, based in Halifax, Canada, and other shareholders include the Panamanian Eilat Corporation....
...“This is the wrong time to be a minister in Nigeria,” a senior member of Mr Buhari’s APC joked last month....
...behaviour, Kent Business School, University of Kent George Bull, chair of Professional Practices Group, Baker Tilly Sriram Prakash, director and global head of M&A insight, Deloitte Alan Paul, Consultant, APC...
...City Squares: Eighteen Writers on the Spirit and Significance of Squares Around the World, by Catie Marron, Harper, RRP£20/$32.50 A corrective to travel writing’s tendency to obsess over wilderness and...
...“When you look at the way the NNPC does business it is a horribly destructive thing,” says Aaron Sayne, an American lawyer who has studied the company....
...I did think of becoming a lawyer, and my father was adamant that I enrolled for college....
...“It’s a talking shop,” says Ben Nwabueze, a lawyer who played a key role in drafting Nigeria’s 1979 Constitution. “It only has a token function, which is to advise.”...
...“We are certainly far from the frontier of what a well-designed tax system would look like,” says Donald Marron, director of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, a Washington think-tank....
...Lord Black’s lawyers claimed that was a “non-compete” fee, an argument Judge Richard Posner said in his opinion was “implausible”....
...as possible, and I learnt that if I knew Don Marron, I was just going to [have to] call him....
...Don Marron, the former chief executive of PaineWebber and a Bloomberg admirer, tells of one memorable negotiation: “We had just ordered 100 Bloomberg terminals and I knew our guys needed 1,000,” Marron recalls...
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