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  • proper noun a family name of German origin.
  • noun dated, 1800s a derringer pistol.

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Examples

  • In other big deals the team represented the law firm Winston & Strawn, the New York office of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and PineBridge Investments.

    7 WTC Move Is Latest Studley Gain 2011

  • Paulsson is head of the public international law and international arbitration groups at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, and has had his professional base in Paris for 30 years.

    Discourse.net: Jan Paulsson to Join UM Law Faculty 2009

  • James Smethurst , a partner in the financial-institutions group at law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP in London, said it is "likely" that, generally speaking, foreign-law bonds would indeed be insulated from currency redenomination risk.

    For Euro Investors, Time to Check the Fine Print Katie Martin 2011

  • James Lawden, a partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer law firm in Tokyo, said: "If one could get flights at the right time it would be very positive."

    Japan Offers Long-Awaited Alternative to Narita Mariko Sanchanta 2010

  • A key question for the Justice Department is likely "whether there's an agreement, implicit or explicit, among the members of the Rockstar consortium to collectively hinder the adoption of Android," said Thomas Ensign , an antitrust lawyer at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP in Washington who isn't involved in the investigation.

    Nortel Patent Probe Picks Up Thomas Catan 2011

  • "Having good and bad banks wasn't acceptable to the Bank of Spain three months ago," said David Franco , a partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP in Madrid.

    Spain Weighs Wider Use of 'Bad Bank' Model for Cajas Sara Schaefer Muñoz 2011

  • "We very rarely have proxy fights in Japan between Japanese companies," said Takeshi Nakao , a partner at corporate law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Tokyo.

    Proxy Fight Brews in Japan Mariko Sanchanta 2011

  • A briefing by the London law firm Freshfields Bruchhaus Deringer for its Chinese investing clients concluded, “It is therefore in practice rather unlikely that the German government will ever use the new law to prohibit any transactions, except in cases where critical and unique infrastructure assets were sold e.g., the sole national railway operator.”

    The Shadow Market Eric J.Weiner 2010

  • The right-back Guldan should be offered a polished Deringer and a quiet room, and encouraged to do the right thing.

    MSK Zilina v Chelsea - as it happened 2010

  • "Rather than a polished Deringer perhaps Guldan should, a la the Who, polish off a bottle of Bollinger in a hotel room and let nature run its course," suggests Ian Copestake.

    MSK Zilina v Chelsea - as it happened 2010

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