Selected Firm means the firm who is selected by the City and to whom the City Council/City Manager awards a contract for the services or commodities requested in this solicitation.
Independent Firm means a nationally recognized accounting firm; provided, however, that such term shall not include any accounting firm that performs or has preformed audit services with respect to Parent or Cal Dive.
investment firm means any legal person whose regular occupation or business is the provision of one or more investment services to third parties and/or the performance of one or more investment activities on a professional basis;
CPA Firm has the meaning set forth in Section 2.3(c).
Valuation Firm means a nationally recognized independent investment banking or valuation firm with expertise in the oil and gas sector.
Independent Financial Adviser means an independent financial institution of international repute appointed by the Company at its own expense.
Independent Financial Advisor means an accounting, appraisal, investment banking firm or consultant to Persons engaged in Similar Businesses of nationally recognized standing that is, in the good faith judgment of the Issuer, qualified to perform the task for which it has been engaged.
Independent Distributor means a person, business, or firm that is neither authorized nor franchised by an Original Component Manufacturer (“OCM”) to sell or distribute the OCM’s products but which purports to sell, broker, and/or distribute such OCM products. Independent Distributors are also referred to as unfranchised distributors, unauthorized distributors, and/or brokers.
Business firm means any corporation, partnership, electing small business (Subchapter S)
Accounting Firm means a nationally recognized certified public accounting firm or other professional organization that is a certified public accounting firm recognized as an expert in determinations and calculations for purposes of Section 280G of the Code that is selected by the Company prior to a Change in Control for purposes of making the applicable determinations hereunder and is reasonably acceptable to Executive, which firm shall not, without Executive’s consent, be a firm serving as accountant or auditor for the individual, entity or group effecting the Change in Control.
Independent Accounting Firm means such nationally recognized, independent accounting firm as is mutually appointed by Seller and Purchaser for purposes of this Agreement.
Selling Firm has the meaning given to it in Section 2(1);
Tax Advisor means a United States tax counsel or accountant of recognized national standing.
Certified Firm means a small business certified under ORS 200.055 by the Oregon Certification Office for Business Inclusion and Diversity (COBID) as minority-owned businesses, woman-owned businesses, businesses that service-disabled veterans own, and emerging small businesses.
sponsoring firm means the firm registered in a jurisdiction of Canada on whose behalf an individual acts as a dealer, an underwriter, an adviser, a chief compliance officer or an ultimate designated person;
Independent Shareholders means holders of Voting Shares, other than:
(i) any Acquiring Person;
(ii) any Offeror (other than any Person who, by virtue of Subsection 1.1(f)(v), is not deemed to Beneficially Own the Voting Shares held by such Person);
(iii) any Affiliate or Associate of any Acquiring Person or Offeror;
(iv) any Person acting jointly or in concert with any Acquiring Person or Offeror; and
(v) any employee benefit plan, deferred profit sharing plan, stock participation plan and any other similar plan or trust for the benefit of employees of the Company or a Subsidiary unless the beneficiaries of the plan or trust direct the manner in which the Voting Shares are to be voted or withheld from voting or direct whether the Voting Shares are to be tendered to a Take-over Bid;
Stockholder Representative has the meaning set forth in the preamble.
foreign firm means a business entity owned or controlled by one or more foreign nationals or a business entity in which more than 50 percent of the stock is owned or controlled by one or more foreign nationals.
Shareholder Representative has the meaning set forth in the preamble.
Pre-FIRM means construction or other development for which the “start of construction” occurred before the effective date of the initial Flood Insurance Rate Map.
Company Underwriter has the meaning set forth in Section 4(a).
Independent Fund Director means an independent director of an investment company advised by Invesco.
Independent Expert means a Person or entity with no material current or prior business or personal relationship with the Advisor or the Directors and who is engaged to a substantial extent in the business of rendering opinions regarding the value of assets of the type held by the Company.
Independent Financial Expert means a nationally recognized accounting, investment banking or consultant firm, which firm does not have a material financial interest or other material economic relationship with either the Company or any of its Affiliates or the Holder or any of its Affiliates that is, in the good faith judgment of the Board, qualified to perform the task for which it has been engaged.
Consulting Firm has the meaning set forth in Section II.A.4.
Distribute in Commerce or “Distribution in Commerce” means to sell in commerce, to import, to introduce or deliver for introduction into commerce, or to hold for sale or distribution after introduction into commerce;