Quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The offer from Dish was carefully calculated at $1.375 billion adding up to enough to pay off all secured debt leaving $90 million the $200 million in unsecured creditors. Shareholders would, of course, not get anything, as is customary in bankruptcies of this type, which would leave LightSquared losing its 12% holding and most of its unsecured debt notes it has traded in. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Reston, Va.-based TerreStar, which is trying to build the first satellite smartphone, filed for Chapter 11 in Manhattan in October with a plan calling for secured noteholders like would-be parent EchoStar Corp. (SATS) to swap more than $850 million in debt for nearly all the equity in a reorganized TerreStar. More junior creditors, however, will get just pennies on the dollar, and existing equity holders are set to get nothing.