Football team
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The back page of a prospectus, which lists all the participants of the deal, their advisors, friends and relations, laid out in a hopscotch format that looks a little — not a lot — like a 4-4-2-1 football team formation, hence the witty name. Checking the firm’s name is correctly punctuated in the football team be a life’s work for a certain kind of denizen of the inhouse legal team. We call such a rare bird a “red-herring ninja”.