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Los inversionistas a quienes se lo vendí tienen un nuevo representante.

Los inversionistas a quienes se lo vendí tienen un nuevo representante.
The investors to whom I sold it have a new representative.
From Lesson 208:Relative pronouns (con quien)·Spanish (Latin America)

Questions & Answers about Los inversionistas a quienes se lo vendí tienen un nuevo representante.

Why do we use a quienes instead of just que here?
Because we are saying "to whom" the item was sold. When referring to people after a preposition like a (to), con (with), or de (of/from), you must use quien or quienes. Since inversionistas is plural, we use quienes.
What is the se doing in se lo vendí?
se means "to them" (the investors) and lo means "it" (the thing sold). Normally, "to them" is les, but Spanish doesn't allow les lo because it is hard to pronounce smoothly. Whenever le or les comes right before lo, la, los, or las, it changes to se.
inversionistas ends in "-as", so why does it use the masculine article Los?
Nouns for people that end in -ista (like inversionista, artista, turista) use the exact same spelling for both masculine and feminine. The article is what tells you the gender. Los inversionistas refers to a group of male investors, or a mixed group of men and women.
If I wanted to talk about a single investor, how would this sentence change?
It would become: El inversionista a quien se lo vendí tiene un nuevo representante. Notice that quienes changes to the singular quien to match the single investor, and the verb tienen changes to the singular tiene.

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