So when two giant firms merge, there is a lot of portfolio purging.

That was a giant firm, a major force in the world.

The giant firm, which will be based in Manhattan, will employ 70,000 people worldwide, working out of 500 offices in nearly 100 countries.

At the outset, many doubted that he would be able to wring change from giant financial firms that are subject to federal regulations.

"When you change auditors with a giant firm like this, the start-up cost is massive - especially in this atmosphere."

One of the giant Japanese industrial firms, Mitsubishi, has bought into the town.

In the late 1990s, the financial sector had consolidated into a few giant firms.

Or the lawyer who left a giant firm, works half as much and enjoys it for the first time?

But few see any advantage in the present political role of organized crime or in bid rigging designed to help one giant firm over another.

All of the giant firms have long-standing, cozy relationships with the important Swiss banks.