stockmojo, thanks for your great post. it´s very interesting for me because I hold tons of commons. if I get nothing or 1 dollar oder 10 Cents it´s a very very big different.
Correct, commons got mostly zero. But Lehman is different and the peer group to Lehman is FNM/FRE. Commons outstanding are 689 mill plus millions RSUs (ex employees). In sum I think 700 millions. IMO commons will have value to give value to the ex-employees and to handle the NOLs. In some cases the commons got a percentage of the newco this would means (cumulative) preferreds will not paid in full. I think commons will get 4% of the new company. My calculation says if Newco will be valued with 10 bill, old commons will get 0.4 bill, CTs 2.1 bill and OBS pref 2.5 bill.
I hope I´m right.