Lehman Brothers Financial SA (LEHNQ)

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To explain the LBHI bankruptcy plan's effective date in simple terms, consider it the official "cutoff date" for all of Lehman Brothers' debts and assets.
What it means
A "snapshot" of ownership: It marks the specific moment in time when the company's liabilities and assets were finalized for the purpose of paying back creditors. Only people or entities who could prove they were owed money by Lehman on or before March 6, 2012, were eligible to receive a share of the payments.
The plan is now in effect: From this date forward, the plan to distribute the remaining assets, which was approved by the bankruptcy court, became legally binding. All future actions, including the actual payment distributions, would follow the rules set forth in the plan.
Distributions can begin: The effective date cleared the way for the trustee to begin the process of distributing cash to the approved claimants, a process that started the following month.
An analogy
Imagine a company goes bankrupt and its assets are turned into cash. For the distribution of that cash, the court needs a specific date to determine who is owed money.
The bankruptcy court approves the final plan (December 6, 2011), like a judge approving the rules for a group of people to divide up something they collectively own.
The effective date (March 6, 2012) is the moment the judge says, "The plan is now in effect, and we're using this date to determine who gets what.".
The actual distributions (starting April 17, 2012) are when the payments actually begin.
In short, March 6, 2012, was the formal starting point for legally resolving all of Lehman Brothers' debts.

For a company in bankruptcy, the "effective date" is the date on which the official plan for paying back creditors and reorganizing the company goes into effect. In simple terms, for the LBHI bankruptcy:
The effective date was like a financial "snapshot" in time: The company's situation—including who owned what debts and how much they were owed—was officially frozen on March 6, 2012.
It set the record straight: If you were a creditor (someone owed money) or an equity holder (someone who owned stock), your right to receive a distribution was determined based on the official records on that specific date.
Distributions were based on that snapshot: Any payments or assets that came out of the bankruptcy process were distributed according to what the company owed, and to whom, as of March 6, 2012.
For LBHI, this meant that the previous stock was canceled and replaced by a trust to handle the distributions to former equity holders. After the effective date, the company could begin making those distributions.