One series of offshore trusts associated with Northern Rock were called Granite (presumably a witty pun on the Rock bank).
Trusts associated with two of Sir Ken's children, William Morrison and Andrea Shelley, increased their stakes in the business slightly to just over 4% each in November last year.
"There are so many companies and trusts associated with Ashcroft, and they keep churning around, so you never know who owns what.
Court papers show that two trusts associated respectively with Tchenguiz and his brother – each containing billions of pounds of assets – were administered by a team of just 20 Investec staff.
In December 2004, the company was acquired by Apollo Management, Goodman senior management, and certain trusts associated with members of the Goodman family.
He was a slight, elderly cleric, and as a young man he had been a trusted associate of Ayatollah Khomeini.
Anna introduced me around to her pals as her trusted associate, but they all knew precisely what I represented: the guy who would ruin a good thing.
Recently, Mr. Abril was appointed to run the yellow pages unit, while another trusted associate, Juan Perea, who arrived with him as chief strategist, left the company.
A former Bureau inspector and trusted associate named Jimmy Corcoran said years later that Hoover, youthful at the time, had once asked him to deal with a serious "problem".
But while Julia never forgives the plantation owner, she becomes a trusted associate, handling tasks and accounts that put her in close contact with the daughter she cannot acknowledge.
