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The effect of bankruptcy on an out-of-the-money swap by Timothy Lin and Sara Cullen

  • Richards Kibbe & Orbe LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 6 2012

The ISDA Master Agreement serves as the basis for the vast majority of over-the-counter derivatives transactions

Common law multiple derivative actions

  • CMS Cameron McKenna
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  • USA
  • -
  • April 23 2013

The general rule when a wrong has been committed against a company is that only the company itself is entitled to bring an action against the

English Court of Appeal interprets the ISDA Master Agreement

  • Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • April 12 2012

Last week the Court of Appeal of England and Wales handed down its decision in four appeals which raise a number of questions of construction in relation to derivatives in the form of interest rate swaps and forward freight agreements documented under the International Swaps and Derivatives Association Inc. Master Agreement

State indemnification claim does not frustrate Commodity Exchange Act

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 2 2009

On October 27th, the Sixth Circuit held that the Commodity Exchange Act ("CEA") does not preempt a state law claim for indemnification

This week in securities litigation (week ending April 26, 2013)

  • Dorsey & Whitney LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 26 2013

George Canellos and Andrew Ceresney, two former colleagues in the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's Office, became the first Co-Directors of the SEC's

Recent ISDA cases

  • Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 21 2011

The ISDA Master Agreement 1992 (ISDA 92) is one of the most widely used standard-form commercial agreements in the world

The case of the multi-million dollar hyphen

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • November 20 2012

We’ve seen a case where an extra comma made a million-dollar difference: AMJ Campbell Inc v Kord Products Inc (2003) 32 BLR (3d) 90 (Ont SCJ); now there’s one involving a hyphen potentially worth a great (but unspecified) deal more

MSHDA v. Lehman: trying to keep the safe harbor safe for swap counterparties

  • Richards Kibbe & Orbe LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 24 2011

On January 25, 2010, United States Bankruptcy Court Judge James M. Peck issued a decision that limited the ability of parties to swap transactions to enforce certain of their contractual rights against a counterparty that has filed for bankruptcy

Cash-settled equity swaps deemed a scheme to evade Section 13(d)

  • Hogan Lovells
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 20 2008

On June 11, a U.S. district court issued a controversial decision regarding the application of the disclosure requirements of Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act to equity swaps

New York court enforces “Big Boy” disclaimers in credit default swap transaction but permits novel credit rating claim to proceed

  • Richards Kibbe & Orbe LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • April 23 2010

A New York trial court recently enforced contractual disclaimers of reliance ("Big Boy" provisions) in a credit default swap ("CDS") context