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The company issued the following debt: senior unsecured debt, secured bonds (backed by a mortgage on a firm’s property) and shareholder loans. In case of default the group of investors that will be served as first from the proceeds from selling the property is:
A. Holders of senior unsecured debt
B. Holders of secured debt
C. Shareholders who provided loan to the company
The secured debts will always be having a priority at the claim because it is secured by the mortgage on a firm's property and all those unsecured loan are having a priority after the claim of the secured loan has been fulfilled.
Shareholders will always be having a residual claim.
Correct answer would be option( B) Holders of secured debt