The IPO process involves several entities, such as the issuing company, institutional investors, brokers, lawyers, regulators, retail investors, and an intermediary company. Consider the following IPO deal: In 1999, Goldman Sachs Group and its partners, Sumitomo Bank Capital Markets Inc. and Kamehameha Activities Association, raised $3.6 billion its initial public offering in the United States and Canada. Goldman Sachs & Co., Bear Stearns & Co. Inc., Credit Suisse First Corporation, Lehman Brothers Inc., and J. P. Morgan Securities Inc. became some of the U. S. representatives the deal by entering into an agreement to sell a certain number Of shares to potential investors at a predetermined.

Identify one of the underwriters in the IPO deal described above.
a. J. P. Morgan Securities Inc.
b. Kamehameha Activities Association