Absolute Priority Rule (APR)
I'm not trying to hijack this line of thought, more to explain my contention. First, I believer we will receive a meaningful payout for our WMI share markers. Whether it happens on 9/25 or later, I'm not sure.
Why throw-out APR to get POR7 approved? I know this has been discussed before but I keep coming back to it for 2 reasons: 1) It's not normal to abandon APR in BK payout, and 2) TPF agreed with POR7 with APR abandoned when the divide was adjusted from 70/30 to 75/25.
OK, there are 2 viewpoints, 1) Preferred holder, and 2) Common holder. Preferred holder would only want to remove APR if they expected to get more that face value. Common holder would be in favor of removing APR if Face value for preferred was not going to be reached and without removal of APR, they would get nothing. Since TPF was not voting for the plan with APR removed and 70/30 divide, and only after deposing SG, and a 5% adjustment to the divide (to 75/25), did they agree to vote for POR7.
So I have to take the Preferred holder's viewpoint and say that there will be a meaningful payout for the WMI share markers, in an amount that is enough to get face value or more. For me this is a win-win as I also have many common share markers too.