Claims under interest rate swap agreements.
Held: The condition precedent in section 2(a)(iii) of the ISDA Master Agreement was valid – ‘to relieve the non-defaulting party from payment obligations for as long as the defaulting party is, by reason of the bankruptcy, incapacitated from providing the promised hedge’, whenever during the life of the transaction such incapacity arose.
Judges:
Briggs J
Citations:
[2011] EWHC 718 (Ch)
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Belmont Park Investments Pty Ltd v BNY Corporate Trustee Services Ltd and Another SC 27-Jul-2011
Complex financial instruments insured the indebtedness of Lehman Brothers. On that company’s insolvency a claim was made. It was said that provisions in the documents offended the rule against the anti-deprivation rule. The courts below had upheld . .
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Contract, Financial Services
Updated: 04 September 2022; Ref: scu.431282
