Excerpt
On a Wednesday morning a few days after his afternoon with
Frances, Mario called to inform Eteo that the prospectus for Nostra
Ventures had been filled and that they should hear from the regulators
in three to four weeks. Eteo congratulated Mario for the speedy
job he had done, and around noon Mitch arrived with an equally
positive update on the prospectus papers for Alexa Ventures. These
were ready too, and Mitch was taking them personally to the corporate
guy upstairs.
Eteo called Cameron and asked him to take care of the new filing
as soon as it came in, which he promised to do. A few colleagues from
the back office and accounting called Eteo to ask if they could have
some shares in Nostra Ventures. Susan was one of them, and Eteo
promised a thousand shares to each. He advised them to contact their
respective brokers, who would be the ones to write the actual orders.
then he put aside shares for Frances, as he had promised her, and
another fifty thousand for John, the head trader, for allocating to a
few of his buddies. Finally he reserved ten thousand shares for each
of the dozen junior brokers Bradley had suggested to him.
