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Unsecured creditor

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the unsecured creditors will usually realize the smallest proportion of their claims, in some legal systems, unsecured creditors who are also indebted to the insolvent debtor can (and in some jurisdictions, must)
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distribution out of the assets of the insolvent company on a liquidation in accordance with the size of their debt after the
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the debts, putting the unsecured creditor with a matured liability to the debtor in a pre-preferential position.
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and the preferential creditors have exhausted their claims.
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of the debtor, the unsecured creditors usually obtain a
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Index

Insolvency

Administration
Bankruptcy
Chapter 7 (US)
CVA
Conservatorship
Dissolution
Examinership
IVA
Liquidation
Provisional liquidation
Receivership
Insolvency practitioner
Tribunal
Regulatory agency
Liquidator
Referee in Bankruptcy
Trustee in bankruptcy
Creditor
Preferential creditor
Secured creditor
Unsecured creditor
Administration (UK)
Chapter 11 (US)
Cram down
Restructuring
Scheme of arrangement
Fraudulent conveyance
Undervalue transaction

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