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{{g}}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 of the year|inhouse legal team]]. We call such a rare bird a “[[Red herring|red-herring]] ninja”.

Beyond even the [[ISDA ninja]], the [[tax ninja]] or the [[Stock loan ninja]] this fellow is the purest form of [[inhouse counsel]], he has worked for your [[debt capital markets|DCM]] team since 1995 and his sole ability — and we should not besmirch it, for it has served him well — is to hover around the [[Biggs threshold]] of minimal legal significance, bad-temperedly correcting the typography and punctuation of his employer’s legal name — “''comma London Branch'' and not ''acting through its London Branch'', if you please” — wherever he finds it on the [[football team]] of his deal prospectuses.