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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 24, 2010
Emerson P. Jones, Greenwich, CT (US);
Karen Schoen, New York, NY (US);
Emerson P. Jones, Greenwich, CT (US);
Karen Schoen, New York, NY (US);
Goldman, Sachs & Co., New York, NY (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a sale, by a company to another entity, of a security may be issued. The security may include a post-paid forward contract which obligates the other entity to purchase a fixed number of shares stock of the company; and debt. In one embodiment, a purchase, by the company from the other entity, of a pre-paid forward contract may be issued, which obligates the other entity to deliver to the company a variable number of shares of stock in the company. In one embodiment, the post-paid forward contract obligates the company to sell and the other entity to purchase, at maturity of the post-paid forward contract, a fixed number of shares of stock in the company for a fixed price.