Apollo is now Olympia & York U.S.A.'s largest single creditor, holding more than $400 million face amount of its debt.

In 1924, Lewis was forced into involuntary bankruptcy by creditors holding less than $10,000 in notes.

Led by the government-owned Korea Development Bank, creditors holding 77.3 percent of Hynix's debts voted on Monday to approve the deal with Micron.

Germany is Russia's biggest creditor, holding about $20 billion of the $48 billion Soviet-era debt to the so-called Paris Club of creditor nations.

The creditors holding the $150 million in notes from the private placement turned out to be perhaps the most worrisome group.

In company cases, any creditor holding a floating charge over an asset, such as a debenture.

"The eight attorney members are not 'creditors holding unsecured claims' because none of them holds a claim," he wrote.

Germany is the biggest single creditor in the Paris Club, holding about half the total owed.

A person familiar with the situation said lawyers representing creditors holding $4 billion of the $5.3 billion of the American unit's debt appeared in court to support the motion.

More than 800 pages of clients were named as "creditors holding unsecured non-priority claims" and were filed in a New York court.