1.   But one underwriting syndicate chief says it could influence companies selling shares to the public for the first time.

2.   But one member of the underwriting syndicate, who requested anonymity, said that the Chinese insisted on a high price to raise as much cash as possible.

3.   Even the best retail customers of the dozen major Wall Street firms that joined Goldman in the underwriting syndicate will have their first opportunity to buy shares Tuesday.

4.   Goldman has largely snubbed the huge retail client base of Merrill Lynch, Morgan and Salomon Smith Barney, rival firms that are part of the Goldman underwriting syndicate.

5.   Goldman Sachs is leading the underwriting syndicate.

6.   In a typical IPO deal, Wall Street Brahmins such as Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch form underwriting syndicates to buy shares from the company going public.

7.   Morgan Stanley was leading the underwriting syndicate.

8.   The concession, or discount that is applied to the purchase price of the bonds, usually comes out of the money earned by members of the underwriting syndicate.

9.   An underwriting syndicate led by Scotia Mcleod, Nesbitt Burns and Goldman Sachs will sell the stock in what the minister says will the biggest offering in Canadian history.

10.   It also plans to stop requiring its underwriting syndicates to re-form each year.