Selig-Prieb would not comment on the valuation.
Coke appears to have broken new ground on the valuation question.
However, because it is such a big-selling drug, it has a significant impact on the valuation of the company.
"When longtime stockholders sell, it puts a cap on the valuation," said Greg Schroeder, restaurant analyst at Josephthal & Company.
Mr. Blumenthal and another founder, David Gilboa, declined to comment on the valuation that the round is based on.
"On the valuation side, if there is a problem with sustainability of dividends, it could have an effect".
Nonetheless, any impact on the valuation of the banks in which the government has a shareholding would be more than offset by the long-term fiscal benefits".
While demand was strong even at that level, the largest institutional investors, the pillars of any offering, pushed back a bit on the valuation.
On the company's board were Myron Scholes and Robert Merton who had won the Nobel prize for economics in 1997 on the valuation of derivatives.
In this field, Pearce made major research contributions on the valuation of noise, waste, global warming, risks to life and health, species conservation and biodiversity.
Mr. Gourevitch suggested it would be easier to bring cases based on possibly misleading statements than on the valuation of assets.
