The Corporate company can call payments to the trust interest and payments to equity or PIERS holders are equity dividends
PIERS were not found to do anything sketchy --- nothing !!!!!!
PIERS are the lowest DEBT in the DEBT Waterfall
In the Prospectus for various debt and PIERS it said - should the debt above PIERS debt not collect full principal and full interest - then any money due to PIERS would be reduced to make up that shortfall
In the POR - debt was assigned a GOV (CH 11) interest rate. Such rate was below the coupon. So the PIERS securities as a group had to make up that delta. That money was taken from the 25 each PAR and took it - I think to about 18 or so PAR --- . So they were capped in all events as they are debt but their CAP was reduced from PAR to PAR minus the interest owed to a bunch of the senior debt. When that was announced their PPS was slammed - and slammed way too hard - and I bought