Like many of its counterparts, the firm said that the continuing shakiness of the global markets hampered its ability to do deals and slightly eroded the value of its private equity investments.
European industry pays around three times as much for its gas as its American counterpart, and Japanese firms pay more than four times as much.
Hence, Islamic index can outperform its conventional counterpart because all firms included in the any Islamic Index have low leverage ratios.
He was known as the colorful counterpart to the firm's many staid lawyers.
Like their counterparts elsewhere, Japanese firms are locked into unprofitable long-term contracts.
Part networking event, part sports tournament, the night offered members of London's growing start-up community an opportunity to swap stories about work, while trying to outplay their counterparts at rival firms.
In the Bronx in New York City, the 2,300 employees who work at Cooperative Home Health Care Associates get better pay, more job security and training for career advancement than their counterparts at competing firms.
WALL STREET JOURNAL R.B.S. Said to Hand Chat Records to Regulators | The Royal Bank of Scotland "has passed records of instant messages to U.K. regulators after concluding a former currency trader's communications with counterparts at other firms may have been inappropriate, according to two people with knowledge of the matter," Bloomberg News reports.
The program works, prosecutors say, because it is often the corporate lawyers or their counterparts at law firms who, responding to a customer complaint or subpoena, discover the potential criminal problems and who understand that their clients can reap huge benefits by going to the Justice Department early.
In a passage likely to be seized on by Eurosceptics, the note says he told his counterpart that his "firm aim was to was to keep the UK in the EU", highlighting the country's importance in areas including foreign policy and defence.
