Apart from listing shares on stock markets and issuing IPOs, companies often resort to alternative sources of funding. Consider the following case, and then answer the question that follows: In April 2005, Petr search Energy Corporation announced the sale of $12.6 million of common stock at a price of $1.36 per share to a group of accredited investors consisting of U.S.-based investment funds. The previous case is an example of: Seasoned equity offering Shelf Registration Private Placement The process through which illiquid assets or a group of assets are pooled together and standardized so that they can be traded among buyers and sellers is called securitization private placement