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It could all come down to valuation, and this is why I'm still here. Its amazing that WMI can go about and spew 'financial panic 2008 mark to market' numbers in a bankruptcy court and have them be considered accurate.
I do believe the best from Susman has yet to come. The EC wanted documents, and they never got them. Now that the examiner has released the documents he used, the EC can get started on hammering out a litigation strategy.
I look back on this case and I honestly can't remember any wins 'for' equity other than the EC appointment and the examiner appointment. These haven't been matters that have actually added to equity's value. Even with WGM having the run of the court, JPMC getting gifted increasingly more assets and the FDIC hiding behind their government regulator status, equity is only 500M out of the money. The very best and most connected of the US financial sector have tried their best to screw equity, and the best they can do is put us 500M out of the money? That must be one big pile of cash they're putting under the bed.
All equity needs is one win (TPS, Tricadia, valuation hearing) to put preferreds in the money, and then the floodgates are open from there.