“…Brown 1989, Giammarino 1989, Bebchuk and Chang 1992, Gilson, John, and Lang 1990, Gertner and Scharfstein 1991, White 1994, and Asquith, Gertner, and Scharfstein 1994 examine how con icts between the rm and its creditors and between groups of creditors are resolved through bargaining. Data support the notion that creditors play a k ey role in bankruptcy: roughly 90 percent of reorganization plans are not con rmed in the U.S. Flynn, 1989 and, in Canada, about 25 percent of reorganization plans are rejected by creditors Fisher and Martel, 1994b;Martel, 1994. This article presents empirical evidence on the role of creditors in nancial reorganization. There are few empirical studies on court-supervised bankruptcy and nancial reorganization.…”