Note that Morgan Stanley was the lead underwriter on the Millennial IPO last March.

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Morgan Stanley was the lead underwriter of the initial public offering of Facebook shares.

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It often has to settle for being co-underwriter, when once it would have been the lead underwriter.

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It seems he insisted Drexel be the lead underwriter on his far bigger takeover of RJR in 1989.

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The issue was priced Wednesday evening by lead underwriter Goldman Sachs (nyse: GS - news - people ).

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More recently Morgan Stanley has come under heavy criticism for its role in the Facebook IPO in which it was the lead underwriter.

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"When I first looked at the company, I didn't like it, " admits analyst Jack Tsui of China Everbright Capital, the lead underwriter of the company.

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Morgan in New York (a lead underwriter for the company's IPO).

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The prime-brokerage sales staff cited long-standing practices at the firm prohibiting doing so when the bank is lead underwriter on an IPO, according to the people.

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In fact, their lead underwriter was also Morgan Stanley!

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Citi is the lead underwriter on the deal.

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Aegis Capital Corp. served as Stemline's lead IPO underwriter.

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