1.   But the London-based insurance company which underwrote the deal has crashed.

2.   He said he had sold the stock on the advice of Montgomery Securities, which helped to underwrite the deal.

3.   However, most individual investors never buy at the offering price, unless they are major clients of the firm underwriting the deal.

4.   In addition, several island governments are underwriting deals to lure visitors.

5.   Lynch said he did not know even at this point which firm will underwrite the deal.

6.   Singapore does more in terms of currency trading, trading of bonds and as a center for underwriting corporate deals.

7.   The deal was underwritten by Goldman Sachs and Shearson Lehman Brothers.

8.   The difference this time is that Zapata is shunning Wall Street bankers and underwriting the deal itself.