It is the largest long-bond offering for an insurance company.
The sale of 210 million shares was the largest initial offering by an insurance company.
The $5 billion or so in junk bonds would amount to the largest such offering ever made, another test of the financial system.
At that time, it was one of the largest initial public offerings on record.
It would be the largest offering in Japan in more than a year.
The 360-million-share deal was the largest initial public offering in United States history at the time.
It is one of the largest initial offerings ever in the health care field.
It was the largest initial public offering by a bank or savings institution in the last 20 years.
This year, 9 of the 10 largest offerings went elsewhere.
Three of the 10 largest initial public offerings this year were for property companies.