Are you referencing the Chemtura case? While Chemtura did pay out for equity, from what I've heard (and that was not a case I followed) - the payout was due to the yeoman work of the EC countering what was an equity hostile mgmt team....or let me be more diplomatic and say a mgmt team that was widely viewed as hostile to equity.
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