underwriter

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Investigators say that participants often tell an underwriter to allocate most of an IPO’s shares to a handful of accounts in the name of foreign nationals.

From Barron's • Dec. 3, 2025

Nicholas Amicucci at Evercore ISI, which was also a lead underwriter, is the most bullish on the stock, with a base-case price target of $37, which implies about 48% upside from current levels.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 27, 2025

She said Cantor has no nonpublic information about the administration’s initiatives and noted that the firm was the underwriter, not the sponsor of the SPAC.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 8, 2025

That is because brokerage firms are allotted a certain percentage of the total offering from the underwriter and then divide the new shares among clients who have put in orders.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 3, 2025

Such a craft as this was Grog, his own captain: himself the crew, he had neither owner nor underwriter; and yet, amidst the assembled navies of the world, he would have shown his bunting!

From Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Lever, Charles James