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Event contracts, which are a type of derivative contract whose payoff is based on a specified event, occurrence, or value, have been area of significant attention in the derivatives markets, with several key developments...more
On January 21, 2025, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA) published version 2.0 of the 2002 Equity Derivatives Definitions (Versionable Edition) (Equity Definitions VE). The updated version...more
It happens every so often: someone signs an agreement to arbitrate legal claims, the agreement has a solid clause delegating arbitrability issues to an arbitrator, and then a member of that person’s family files a claim in...more
The Definitions aim to support the safe and efficient development of the digital asset derivatives market through consistent contractual standards. On January 26, 2023, the International Swaps and Derivatives...more
The U.S. dollar London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor) publication is scheduled to end by June 30, 2023. With roughly nine months to go as of this writing, parties still have time to make modifications to existing debt...more
The restaurant business is on the skids amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Yelp reports that 60% of closed restaurants won’t re-open. Apart from the pandemic, the success rate for new restaurants is dauntingly low. Surveys show a...more
In 2015, our colleagues in the white-collar criminal defense bar braced for the impact of a memorandum penned by then Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates. The Yates Memo encouraged both federal prosecutors and civil...more
The current COVID-19 pandemic has already impacted many derivatives transactions. This note sets out a checklist of key legal issues market participants may need to consider in relation to OTC derivatives contracts....more
Where at least one derivative claim asserted “irreparable harm” to the LLC if the member waited 90 days after its demand before filing suit, the member did not have to wait 90 days before asserting other derivative claims....more
Key Points - - The 2002 ISDA Master Agreement has a force majeure clause, but the 1992 ISDA Master does not. - A force majeure defense is unavailable unless payment/delivery is actually prevented. - Under a Force...more
The coronavirus COVID-19 is causing disruption across many business contexts and it would be prudent to do a check of your contractual obligations to determine if there are any consequences of the current disruption. While...more
The outbreak of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 has implications for derivatives contracts. For example, some companies are asserting that the reported disruptions in the global supply-chain and travel restrictions constitute...more
Thomas Cook Takeaways - For credit default swap (CDS) protection buyers with protection on Thomas Cook Group Plc, a U.K. scheme of arrangement paving the way for a £1.6 billion debt-to-equity exchange imposed on all debt...more
On July 12, 2019, the staff of the Division of Corporation Finance, Division of Investment Management, Division of Trading and Markets, and Office of the Chief Accountant (Staff) of the Securities and Exchange Commission...more
In May, the Southern District of California handed ING a win in a case involving allegations that the company targeted seniors with annuities that hid an embedded derivative structure that made them worth less than promised....more
Recent federal court decisions effectively terminated two class action lawsuits challenging indexed annuity sales, seemingly ending an extended wave of class litigation in the federal courts against multiple insurers...more