In bankruptcies, bondholders and unsecured creditors are paid from the company's assets before common stockholders. Although a company may emerge from bankruptcy as a viable entity, the creditors and the bondholders generally become the new equity owners -- and their first order of business is to cancel the existing equity shares
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