ML Underwriters Paid an Issuer $37,748,700 as IPO Proceeds

question 74

Multiple Choice

ML Underwriters paid an issuer $37,748,700 as IPO proceeds. The IPO offered 1.86 million shares of which 1.835 million were sold at an offer price of $22 a share. The underwriting spread was 7.75 percent. What type of underwriting was this?

• A) best efforts
• B) variable
• C) firm commitment
• D) plain vanilla
• E) stand-by

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