In August, Retrophin sued, saying that Shkreli had engineered transactions between investors in MSMB and the biotechnology firm.
They can also, if they so wish, engineer transactions favorable to related companies in which they have large ownership stakes, such as Alipay.
CHART: THE 20 BIGGEST CROSS-BORDER SOVERIGN WEALTH FUND DEALS SINCE 2005: A breakdown of financial advisers, lawyers, and financial companies that have engineered large transactions, mergers, investments, and deals since 2005 including Citigroup, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, UBS, Mubadala Development Co., Shearman & Sterling, and Linklaters.
C1 Bank Got Tax Break for Enron J. P. Morgan Chase engineered a complex transaction for Enron last year designed to allow the company to obtain hundreds of millions of dollars in tax deductions that would not normally have been permitted in the course of business.
It is true that, before and after joining the euro in 2001, Greece obscured the true extent of its debt, sometimes with the help of financial transactions engineered by Goldman Sachs.
Telecommunications companies have many ways to report their sales, although transactions engineered to illustrate strong revenue growth became more fashionable in the late 1990's as investors prized healthy sales instead of old-fashioned profits.
The bank's lawyers claim the men could not have succeeded "in their conspiracy to loot Glitnir without the complicity of its external auditors PwC" who they say helped to conceal the fraudulent transactions engineered by Jóhannesson and his associates.
It is the most economic way for a young student to get noticed and connected to professional resources, and the most cost effective way for directors to fill the ranks of their schools and companies with the best students from around the world in one transaction: YAGP annually engineers ballet's perfect storm.
Yahoo, Google, Apple, LinkedIn and Airbnb have also done transactions just for engineers.
But for Dimitroff, the engineer of the boldest player transaction in an N.F.L. off-season filled with them, the notion of paying a king's ransom for one college player who was not the consensus leading pick at his position began brewing soon after Atlanta hired him.
The Dodgers manager, at age 53, helped engineer the team's most unusual transaction this winter when he and wife Lori added a loud and spunky infielder named Louis Riley Mattingly.
