Yes, Elliot Management will do very well out this.
Think of it like a mortgage, you have £100k in cash and buy a house worth £200k with half of the funds coming from a mortgage lender. If you fail to keep up your payments, you lose the house and deposit/equity you had in it and the mortgage company ends up owning the entire thing.
It's been a very costly error for Li Yonghong as it's cost him 500m Euros in equity, which appears to be far more than he was actually worth as industry insiders believe his equity stake was actually highly leveraged back in China anyway.
Great article on it in the FT:
https://www.ft.com/content/bbc841e0-8689-11e8-96dd-fa565ec55929