but when a public company comes out of bankruptcy they have to re-capitalize the company and ergo issue shares of the new company while cancelling the old shares.
Otherwise nobody would ever invest in the post-bankruptcy company if the old shareholders shares were still hanging around.
At least this is the path in most public bankruptcies.
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