debtholders

And a bigger equity cushion should help to reduce the cost of debt by counteracting fears that debtholders are too exposed to losses.

Some debtholders did not get their money back straight away, a technical default.

These two steps would give unions and Treasury 89 per cent of the company, even before private debtholders are taken into account.

Value is more likely to be preserved for debtholders and for the emirate itself.

But experts play down the debate over whether debtholders should fully disclose their other holdings to provide transparency.

In bankruptcy , ownership of a company passes to the debtholders from those who control the equity .

Once unsecured debtholders of insolvent banks lose, market discipline would return to the whole sector.

Other officials suggested the term implies debtholders agreeing on a voluntary basis to accept later repayment.

The latter scenario depends on debtholders taking a raw deal ahead of the May 26 exchange deadline.

This may create an incentive for outside stakeholders or the firm's debtholders to bail out the firm as bankruptcy looms.

Much of this depends on debtholders seeing a future GM worth betting on rather than seeing what they can recover from a GM in Chapter 11.

Scared bank shareholders will now demand a higher risk premium, as will debtholders.

GM is seeking concessions from the UAW and debtholders as required under the terms of its $13. 4 billion bailout.

Debtholders can be tough to identify and even more difficult to unite around one solution.

Senior debtholders, who rank first in the hierarchy of unsecured creditors if a bank is liquidated, have less to worry about.

Last year, a restructuring by Asian Aluminum Holdings left many debtholders with next to nothing.