The phrase "affiliates of three" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used when referring to entities or organizations that are associated with or connected to a group or organization identified as "three."
Example: "The report includes data from the affiliates of three major corporations involved in the project."
Alternatives: "partners of three" or "associates of three".
Top billing for the $8.7 billion stock sale went to affiliates of two big banks, Credit Suisse First Boston and the Salomon Smith Barney unit of Citigroup, vaulting them into the No. 2 and No. 3 rankings, respectively, among underwriters for new offerings this year.
America's Securities and Exchange Commission started proceedings against the Chinese affiliates of five of the world's biggest accountancy firms for refusing to hand over papers relating to companies audited in China but listed in America.
WASHINGTON — The Securities and Exchange Commission charged the Chinese affiliates of five big accounting firms on Monday with violating securities laws, claiming they failed to produce documents from their audits of several China-based companies under investigation for fraud.
This past week, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged the Chinese affiliates of five of the world's biggest auditing firms with violations of U.S. securities law, raising fears that it could go further and ban the affiliates from working on audits of companies listed in the United States.
Such worries were reinforced in December, when the Securities and Exchange Commission accused the Chinese affiliates of five big accounting firms of violating securities laws, contending they had failed to produce documents from their audits of several China-based companies under investigation for fraud.
Private Equity and Credit Funds: Every week brings a media report (or two) about the demise of one of the large credit managers or the credit affiliates of one of the large private equity firms.
Lastly, we contacted the medical directors of the British and Norwegian affiliates of four major drug companies with antihypertensive drugs, and conducted a semi-structured telephone interview exploring possible explanations for the differences between these two countries, which had the largest differences in prescribing patterns (See additional file 1: Interview guide).
From 2000, when the suit was filed, to 2004, when it was decided, the affiliates of the three companies gave $15,000 to four of the justices on the case.
Health-care software firm Athenahealth is selling itself to an affiliate of two private-equity firms for $5.47 billion in cash months after an activist investor offered to take the business private.
Little did anyone in the room know that 12 days earlier, Dr. Gilman had e-mailed a draft of the presentation to a trader at an affiliate of one of the nation's most prominent hedge funds, according to prosecutors, allowing the fund, SAC Capital, and its affiliate to sell over $700 million of Elan and Wyeth stock before Dr. Gilman's public talk.
