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$ cat input.txt
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* *
* THE FOLLOWING IS THE SOLICITOR MAIL FILE *
* *
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1
THE...

Try this... code purely based on your input file...

awk '/CUSIP/{gsub(/[a-z]|%.*/,"",$7);_1=$5"|"$7}/^--/{f=1;next}{if(f==1)print $0 _1}' input_file
--ahamed

$ cat input.awk
BEGIN { # Split 'lines' on --------------
RS="--------------------------------"
# Split 'columns' on newline
FS="\n"
}

NR==1 { # Third-last line...