The syndicate would then sell to various investors.

When a bond issue is underwritten, one or more securities firms or banks, forming a syndicate, buy the entire issue of bonds from the issuer and re-sell them to investors.

The process of determining an optimal price usually involves the underwriters (" syndicate ") arranging share purchase commitments from leading institutional investors.

Captain Aaron Olmstead, a wealthy sea captain in the China trade out of New England, was one of 49 investors who formed a syndicate in 1795 to purchase a major part of the Western Reserve from Connecticut.

* Holland Land Company, an unincorporated syndicate of Dutch investors

European investors in the Oregon and San Francisco Steamship Line, after building new vessels, became discouraged, and in 1879 Villard formed an American syndicate and purchased the property.

In October 1959, Cohn and a group of investors stepped in and gained control of the company, having bought 200, 000 of the firm's 700, 000 shares, which were purchased by his syndicate from the Cowens and on the open market over a three-month period prior to the takeover.

A syndicate of investors ( again, close friends of Eaton, including Harrison Gray Otis ) bought up large tracts of land in the San Fernando Valley with this inside information.

In 1882 in a special legislative session, the Seventeenth Texas Legislature struck a bargain with Charles B. and John V. Farwell of Chicago, Illinois, under which a syndicate led by the Farwells, with mostly British investors, agreed to build a new $ 3, 000, 000. 00 Texas State Capitol in Austin and to accept the 3, 000, 000 acres ( 12, 000 km² ) of Panhandle land in payment.

In 1901, the syndicate that owned the ranch began selling off the land to pay foreign investors as the bonds became due.

Around 1790 there were reportedly thirteen investors in the Holland Land Company syndicate, who hoped to profit by buying a large tract of land in Western New York and northern Pennsylvania and reselling it to settlers and businessmen.

He began by forming the Mizner Development Corporation, a syndicate of prominent investors including Rodman Wanamaker, Paris Singer, Irving Berlin, William Kissam Vanderbilt II, Elizabeth Arden, Jesse Livermore, Clarence H. Geist, and T. Coleman du Pont as chairman.

In 1970, a syndicate of Pennsylvanian investors, headed by Irwin Weinberg, purchased the stamp for $ 280, 000 and spent much of the decade exhibiting it in a worldwide tour.

Additional Phelps and Gorham lands east of the Genesee River which had not previously been sold were acquired by Robert Morris in 1791, who re-sold them to The Pulteney Association, a syndicate of British investors.

As the IM ( or “ bank book ,” in traditional market lingo ) is being prepared, the syndicate desk will solicit informal feedback from potential investors on what their appetite for the deal will be and at what price they are willing to invest.

Consequently, investors need not be informed that an offering is or will be stabilized by way of a syndicate short position.

In 1863, Gilpin and a syndicate of foreign investors bought the Charles H. Beaubien land grant ( often referred to as the Sangre de Cristo Land Grant on the east slopes of the mountains ) in southeast Colorado for about 4 cents an acre ($ 41, 000 ).

Beale's son, Truxtun Beale, sold the Tejon Ranch in 1912 to a syndicate of investors headed by Los Angeles Times publisher Harry Chandler and land developer Moses Sherman.

Before he testified for 20 minutes, Stein, who lives at 3300 Lake Shore Dr., admitted to reporters that he had a wide acquaintance with crime syndicate hoodlums.

Alphonse Gabriel " Al " Capone ( January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947 ) was an American gangster who led a Prohibition-era crime syndicate.

The RICO Act focuses specifically on racketeering, and it allows for the leaders of a syndicate to be tried for the crimes which they ordered others to do or assisted them, closing a perceived loophole that allowed someone who told a man to, for example, murder, to be exempt from the trial because he did not actually do it.

In 1996, under new owner John Moores ( a software tycoon who purchased controlling ownership in the team in 1994 from Tom Werner, who subsequently formed a syndicate that purchased the Boston Red Sox ) and team president Larry Lucchino, and with a team managed by former Padres catcher Bruce Bochy ( a member of the 1984 NL championship squad ), the team won the NL West in an exciting race, sweeping the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium in the final series of the regular season.

The modern gentlemen's club, sometimes proprietary, i. e. owned by an individual or private syndicate, but more frequently owned by the members who delegate to a committee the management of its affairs, first reached its highest development in London, where the district of St. James's has long been known as " Clubland ".

( Brewster, Chiswell, and Herringman were members of the six-man syndicate that published the third Ben Jonson folio in 1692 ; Herringman was one of three stationers who issued the second Beaumont and Fletcher folio in 1679.

Diệm won a street war with the private army of the Bình Xuyên organised crime syndicate of the Cholon brothels and gambling houses who had enjoyed special favors under the French and Bảo Đại.

A broker dealer who is not a member of the syndicate but sells shares would receive only the concession, while the member of the syndicate who provided the shares to that broker dealer would retain the underwriting fee.

Fasssbinder himself plays the lead part of Franz, a small time pimp who is torn between his mistress Joanna, a prostitute played by Hanna Schygulla, and his friend Bruno, a gangster sent after Franz by the syndicate that he has refused to join.

Chrysler, Jr. was part of a syndicate that included friend Alfred G. Vanderbilt II who in 1940 acquired the 1935 English Triple Crown winner Bahram from the Aga Khan III.

The Hall was built on two lot donated by Milton Santee, who as noted above headed up the Santa Maria Land & Water Company syndicate.

Around the turn of the 20th century, Houck ’ s various lines were consolidated under the name of St. Louis & Gulf Railroad Co. Later Mr. Houck sold out to a syndicate headed by Newman Erb, who in 1902 sold out to the St. Louis & San Francisco Railway Company.

Buchtel was mainly known as a coal mining community started by syndicate man John R. Buchtel who used his profits from the area to start Buchtel College, later became the University of Akron.

Probably their most well known victim was Dutch Schultz, who had openly defied the syndicate.

His relentlessly cheerful personality is embraced by readers and syndicate executives who love him and his tie-in merchandise, but the other characters find him creepy and off-putting.

This was followed by An Humble Remonstrance to the High Court of Parliament ( 1640 and 1641 ), an eloquent and forceful defence of his order, which produced a retort from the syndicate of Puritan divines, who wrote under the name of Smectymnuus.

In 2000, the current owner Jerry Speyer ( a close friend of David Rockefeller ), of Tishman Speyer Properties, L. P., together with the Lester Crown family of Chicago, bought for $ 1. 85 billion the older 14 buildings and land from the previous syndicated owners: Goldman Sachs ( which had 50 percent ownership ), Gianni Agnelli, Stavros Niarchos, and David Rockefeller, who organized the syndicate in 1996 and is historically associated with the other partners.

For a period of only five years, from 1597 to 1602, Drayton was a member of the stable of playwrights who supplied material for the theatrical syndicate of Philip Henslowe.

Alternative theories have circulated, especially in Chicago, where there were rumors that Zangara was a hired killer, working for Frank Nitti, who was the head of the Chicago Outfit ( Chicago's largest organized-crime syndicate ).

The money will be paid only to those members of the 34 member syndicate who had been insured for theft ( Thoroughbred Times, 2008 ).

Traditionally, the syndicate owned the rights to the strips.

A syndicate headed by William Marsh Rice owned the whole townsite and sold property to settlers.

He was also a member of a syndicate with Rockefeller that for a time in the 1980s owned Rockefeller Center.

Although Terry and the Pirates had made Caniff famous, the strip was owned by the syndicate, which was not uncommon at the time.

In October 1925, Harry S. Black, in need of cash for his U. S. Realty Company, sold the Flatiron Building to a syndicate set up by Lewis Rosenbaum, who also owned assorted other notable buildings around the U. S. The price was $ 2 million, which equaled Black's cost for buying the lot and erecting the Flatiron.

This facility was shared with The Great Horseless Carriage Company ( later Motor Manufacturing Company ), also owned by the Lawson syndicate, in April 1896.

In some cases, the work will be owned by the syndicate as opposed to the creator.

He was rumored to be part of a Mafia syndicate which owned many other Cuban hotels and casinos.

While the strip was a major success, it was not owned by its creator but by its distributing syndicate, the Chicago Tribune-New York Daily News, a common practice with syndicated comics at the time.

The First Folio's publishing syndicate also included two stationers who owned the rights to some of the individual plays that had been previously printed: William Aspley ( Much Ado About Nothing and Henry IV, Part 2 ) and John Smethwick ( Love's Labour's Lost, Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet ).

Alfred Workman was a muleskinner who emigrated from Australia, winding up running a massive wheat farm owned by a syndicate led by Isaac Lankershim and Isaac Van Nuys.

The syndicate that owned Brooklyn also owned the Baltimore Orioles.

However, the rights for the strip he had created, written and drawn ( for Chicago Tribune newspaper syndicate editor Captain Joseph Patterson ), were entirely owned by the syndicate.

As the syndicate owned the rights to the strip, Rick O ' Shay was continued by others: Marian Dern ( writer ), Alfredo Alcala and Mel Keefer ( artists ).

The Zong Massacre was a mass-killing of approximately 142 slaves that took place in 1781, on the Zong, a slave ship owned by a Liverpool slave-trading syndicate.

Entercom's initial plan to syndicate WEEI programming was to place it on stations owned by Nassau Broadcasting in 13 more markets, but the deal between the two companies ended up collapsing.

In 1955 a syndicate purchased Nashua for a record $ 1, 251, 200 from the estate of William Woodward Jr., with majority interests owned by the Christopher J. Devine senior partner and founder of C. J.

It was suspected that he also had behind-the-scenes interests in other syndicate owned Cuban gambling casinos namely those at, The Habana Riviera, The Nacional, The Sevilla-Biltmore, The Capri and the Havana Hilton.