Teera Phutrakul, president of the Association of Investment Management Companies ( AIMC ), disclosed that the association is pushing the securities watchdog the Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) for permission for commercial banks to become their buying / selling agents.
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Stevens then went through the justifications that were offered by the NCAA . First, although the NCAA claimed that the television plan was a joint venture, he noted that unlike " Broadcast Music, Inc . v . Columbia Broadcast System, Inc . ", the NCAA was not acting as a selling agent and that the sales occurred in a noncompetitive market.
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The Primary Products Pool Act of 1923 enabled the establishment of pools of primary produce which allowed all the farmers to be placed on an equal footing, with one selling agent to handle the marketing of the crop and the Agricultural Bank Act of 1923 provided for cooperatives to borrow money for advance payments on crops before the sale of the commodity.
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In November 2006, BG Capital acted as the exclusive selling agent for Bank of Georgia s Initial Public Offering ( IPO ) on the London Stock Exchange, which raised $ 159.8 million, and in December 2007 the company was a joint adviser on one of Ukraine s largest M & A deals, the sale of 100 % in ISTIL Group to ESTAR Management Company Ltd.
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By 1880, E . T . was the managing partner of the firm Thompson and Bedford Company, Limited, consisting of R . J . Thompson, himself, Charles Pratt, and Henry H . Rogers, most of whom became prominent leaders in petroleum through the Standard Oil Co . His firm was the eastern selling agents for Standard Oil, which owned the majority stake in his company's stock.