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(Also: ''“offering circular”''; ''“offering memorandum”''; ''“information memorandum”''): A long document describing some [[securities]] which no-one reads, but which managers are nonetheless convinced presents them with [[document risk|risk of huge liability]]. Much of it accordingly comprises [[disclaimer]]s, and there is a specific legal department employee — a [[red-herring ninja]] — who can make an entire living in the cool, nourishing foliage of such a document. | (Also: ''“offering circular”''; ''“offering memorandum”''; ''“information memorandum”''): A long document describing some [[securities]] which no-one reads, but which managers are nonetheless convinced presents them with [[document risk|risk of huge liability]]. Much of it accordingly comprises [[disclaimer]]s, and there is a specific [[legal department]] [[employee]] — a [[red-herring ninja]] — who can make an entire living in the cool, nourishing foliage of such a document. | ||
If 400 pages of 9 point Times New Roman describing a [[collateralised debt obligation]] were not dreary enough — and be assured, readers, it ''is'' dreary enough — large swathes of it concerning such crushingly on point topics as jury trials will be addressed, in [[BLOCK CAPITALS]], TO [[RESIDENTS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE]], a constituency that appears perpetually in need of being shouted at. | If 400 pages of 9 point Times New Roman describing a [[collateralised debt obligation]] were not dreary enough — and be assured, readers, it ''is'' dreary enough — large swathes of it concerning such crushingly on point topics as jury trials will be addressed, in [[BLOCK CAPITALS]], TO [[RESIDENTS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE]], a constituency that appears perpetually in need of being shouted at. | ||