For whatever it's worth, the only case that has closely dealt with this, Davison v. Plowman, took the view that a government official may be speaking as a citizen and not as the government, even when he is "mak[ing] public statements though social media" to constituents — though I should acknowledge that this is just a federal trial court case and not a binding precedent.
An Egyptian business woman I closely dealt with in the past year described it to me this way: "In Egypt, men are schizophrenic.
At stake are the traditional Swiss foundations of client confidentiality and bank secrecy that many Swiss citizens believed to be undermined by the closely watched deal.
Worried that this money could taint doctors' research plans or clinical judgment, government agencies, medical journals and universities have been forced to look more closely at deal details.
One closely watched deal will be the privatization this year of Banco do Estado de Sao Paulo S.A., or Banespa, which has extensive consumer banking operations in southeastern Brazil.
In this regard, LCPs are increasingly involved in the decision of which firms to acquire, and often work closely with deal teams.
Under a closely watched deal reached last August, Switzerland has until Aug. 19 to transfer the names and details of 4,450 wealthy American clients of UBS to the I.R.S.
The collapse of the closely watched deal is a window into the gulf that still exists between the television productions that have existed for decades and the Web productions that are emerging as a popular alternative for viewers.
Foods distributor Sysco said on Monday it would terminate a $8.2 billion acquisition of private equity-owned competitor US Foods, undoing what was a closely followed deal that may also have wider ramifications on merger and acquisition activity on Wall Street.
AMC had to boost its offer to keep the closely watched deal from falling apart after some shareholders complained that the original price of $30..
