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Question regarding 'ownership'


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Forgive any ignorance on my part, but I can't be the only person wondering...

 

Share trading is currently suspended, but the shareholders still 'own' those shares, yes?

 

If a buyer is found for the club, does that by default include 100% of shares in the company? Would the company automatically remain listed, or automatically de-listed, or somewhere in between?! Do shares come into it at all anymore or are they effectively unimportant now? Is there any scenario in which existing shareholders somehow retain their part ownership?

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From what I understand (This may be compeltely wrong) the football club is an asset. If someone came in with an offer the administrator would consider it and see if it was the best deal for the creditors. If accepted this money would go into a pot for the creditors (which includes shareholders, staff, NU, Barclays etc.). However, there is never normally enough money to pay shareholders so they would get nothing.

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I'm talking wider picture here though guys... all the shareholders... not just Lowe and Wilde and Crouch etc, but you and me and any other shareholder. What happens to those shares now? What are the potential outcomes? I assumed that 100% ownership passes to whoever agrees to buy the club, but I'm just not sure.

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In very simple terms, you still technically own shares in SLH but they are worthless. What will happen is that the administrators of SLH will sell its assets to get funds to pay off the creditors as far as possible. This will (hopefully) include selling the shares in the SFCL to investors who can take the club forward, the stadium and the training ground (though not necessarily all to the same purchaser). Once the assets have been disposed of and the proceeds distributed to creditors, the company will be wound up. Then the shares will not exist anymore.

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