View source for Template:M summ Equity Derivatives 12.9(a)(ii)

===“It has become illegal”===
For those inclined to look even gift horses in the mouth, this provision may appear to leave some things unsaid. 

====Some ''other'' way of holding {{eqderivprov|Shares}}===
What if it has become illegal to hold {{eqderivprov|Shares}} ''the way the {{eqderivprov|Hedging Party}} is holding them'', but it remains legal to hold them some ''other'' way? For example, if Shares needed to be listed on a certain {{eqderivprov|Exchange}}, or cleared across a certain clearinghouse? At first blush this seems fanciful but before you laugh don’t forget this was one of the potential consequences of [[Brexit means Brexit|Brexit]] — and for the Swissies — when the EU share trading obligation row blew up in 2019.

Even leaving aside the direction that one must act in [[good faith]] in arriving at one’s conclusion, it is hard to see how one could say it was “''illegal'' to hold Shares” if in fact one ''could'' legally hold those {{eqderivprov|Shares}} some other way.  So this one’s a bit silly.

====''Other'' hedges, without {{eqderivprov|Shares}}, still possible===
What if one could [[hedge]] via [[futures]], [[derivatives]], [[GDR]]s or some other instrument without significant extra cost or inconvenience? Would that still count as a Change in Law, just because you couldn't hedge with actual {{eqderivprov|Shares}}?

But is “hold, acquire or dispose of {{eqderivprov|Shares}} relating to such {{eqderivprov|Transaction}}” too narrow when a {{eqderivprov|Hedging Party}} may be able to hedge some other way (i.e., via [[futures]], [[swaps]], [[depositary receipts]] and so on)? 

Well, as fussy as it may seem, it is hard to fault in its basic logic. {{icds}} scope here does seem a bit barrow. Not even [[good faith]] can win the day here, since it only talks about acquiring, holding or disposing of {{eqderivprov|Shares}} themselves. On the other hand, if a jurisdiction has declared the very act of holding a physical {{eqderivprov|Share}} illegal, it is hard to see anyone in the jurisdiction offering a swap on it, so this may be more of a theoretical than a practical objection, especially where it is a [[synthetic equity swap]] where the hedging party has no incentive not to accommodate its client if it can source an alternative legal, somehow-derivative, [[hedge]]. 

You may, therefore, gracefully concede. We don’t think you’ll have to  often, this is a bit of an aficionado’s point. So, [[knee-slide and jet wings]] to the whoever the [[negotiator]] was who thought of it.