Still does not answer my main questions though. Are you holding a restricted stock certificate or did you buy open market? If you invested through an actual broker and own free trading shares then you can in essence sell whenever you want (if you offer them cheap enough there might be some takers out there) If you are holding restricted paper then there is a chance that you might lose all of it. It all depends on what Dent tries to do with the shell and what the buyers choose to do with it. There is a chance that they might block the conversion of some of the restricted stock that has been issued or they might reverse the stock significantly reducing the value of your stock. Only time will tell what is going to happen.