Owner beside operator, what equity buys, the front, the funnel, the lock. The owner’s seat exists whether anyone sits in it, and an operator who also owns pays for both. Partnership is the wrong form for a builder, and the reasons are structural.
Senior creditor negative consent rights and supermajority board controls veto the operational investments required to hit post-restructuring equity ratchet targets.
Distressed debt restructuring in owner-managed firms trades equity ownership for debt relief while shifting director duties toward creditor protection.
Senior creditor cramdowns extinguish contingent sweat equity under the absolute priority rule because unperformed labor fails to constitute market-tested cash value.
Six fields, each writing its own terms
The terms are written where they belong. Each field holds three desks, and every entry a desk writes raises the terms it uses, each term given a meaning, a mechanism and the places it appears. The record on these pages stays first person and hand made; the fields grow the nomenclature.