Relevant Jurisdiction - ISDA Provision

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'Definition of' Relevant Jurisdiction in a Nutshell

Use at your own risk, campers!
Relevant Jurisdiction” means any jurisdictions where a party (a) is incorporated and controlled, (b) has a specified Office (c) executes this Agreement; or (d) makes payments under this Agreement.

Full text of Definition of Relevant Jurisdiction

Relevant Jurisdiction” means, with respect to a party, the jurisdictions (a) in which the party is incorporated, organised, managed and controlled or considered to have its seat, (b) where an Office through which the party is acting for purposes of this Agreement is located, (c) in which the party executes this Agreement and (d) in relation to any payment, from or through which such payment is made.

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Click here for the text of Section Relevant Jurisdiction in the 1992 ISDA
The two definitions are identical. Like properly identical.

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Relevant Jurisdiction carries the same non-meaning in the 2002 ISDA as it did in the 1992 ISDA. Which is nice.

Summary

Relevant Jurisdiction is a special artefact in the ISDA canon because, insofar as the ISDA Master Agreement proper is concerned, it is the only piece of text that falls definitively below the Biggs threshold. It isn’t used in the ISDA Master Agreement itself at all.

HOLD YOUR LETTERS, PEDANTS. Yes, it is true, it does feature in the printed form in the Part 2 Payer Representations. But these are, by their terms, voluntary, optional and malleable commercial terms, that the parties may strike out or adjust, leaving the Relevant Jurisdiction dangling there behind the ISDA’s woolly posterior, like a dag that may not be shorn. The irony! Relevant to what?! Nothing!

You might ask why this definition — which is tedious, sure, but hardly a backbreaker — couldn’t have been wrapped into the text of the actual representation in Part 2

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