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Where you will go, taking the whole negotiation with you, the moment you nickel-and-dime on some tail-event risk management concern. You know, by reference to 1.3% of the rolling weighted average volume of the monthly mean rainfall on the Amazon basin etc.

It might jazz your risk colleagues, and it will doubtless appeal to your own Rube Goldbergian instinct — every transactional legal eagle has it, however deeply it will be buried, and it will overjoy your buyside counsel, and as you descend into the abyss, it will drive your clients up the wall.

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• Abyss