Close business associates of your directors, senior officers, or major shareholders. (lklaw.ca)
The FCAA's director of securities Dean Murrison doesn't expect there will be a market for equity crowdfunding investments since shares are not tradable and can only be sold under certain exemptions (to family, close friends and close business associates for example). (moneysense.ca)
When Adam Cauliff's new cabin cruiser, Cornelia II, blows up in New York harbor with him and several close business associates aboard, his wife, Nell MacDermott, is not only distraught at the loss but wracked with guilt because she and Adam had just had a serious quarrel and she had told him not to come home. (bookbrowse.com)