Procedure for Exercise - Equity Derivatives Provision

2002 ISDA Equity Derivatives Definitions A Jolly Contrarian owner’s manual™ Resources and navigation Resources About the Equity Derivatives Definitions | (full wikitext) | (nutshell wikitext) | Equity v credit derivatives showdown Hot topics Synthetic Prime Brokerage Anatomy | The Triple Cocktail | Cancellation and Payment | Calculation Agent TOC | 1 General Definitions | 2 Option Transactions | 3 Exercise of Options | 4 Forward Transactions | 5 Equity Swap Transactions | 6 Valuation | 7 Settlement | 8 Cash Settlement | 9 Physical Settlement | 10 Dividends | 11 Adjustments and Modifications | 12 Extraordinary Events · 12.8 Cancellation Amount · 12.9 Additional Disruption Events · 12.9 List of ADEs · 12.9(b) Consequences of ADEs | 13 Miscellaneous Index: Click ᐅ to expand: Equity Derivatives - Premium Synthetic Prime Brokerage Section 3.2 in a Nutshell™ Use at your own risk, campers! 3.2. Procedure for Exercise. (a) Notice: Unless Automatic Exercise applies, Buyer must give irrevocable notice during the Exercise Period to Seller to exercise an Option. (b) Late notices: For American Options, a notice given after the Latest Exercise Time on a Scheduled Trading Day will be effective on the following Scheduled Trading Day in the Exercise Period (if there is one). (c) Multiple Exercise: Where Multiple Exercise applies, Buyer must specify how many Options it is exercising on each Exercise Date. (d) Written confirmation of oral notices: Buyer will execute and deliver to Seller a written confirmation confirming any oral exercise within one Scheduled Trading Day however, failure by to provide such confirmation will not affect the validity of an oral notice. view template Full text of Section 3.2 Section 3.2. Procedure for Exercise. Except when Automatic Exercise applies, Buyer must give irrevocable notice (which will be oral telephonic notice if practicable, and otherwise written notice) during the Exercise Period to Seller, or, if applicable, Seller’s Agent, of its exercise of an Option. In the case of an American Option, if the notice of exercise is given after the Latest Exercise Time on a Scheduled Trading Day, then that notice will be deemed given on the next following Scheduled Trading Day, if any, in the Exercise Period. In the case of an American Option or a Bermuda Option to which Multiple Exercise is applicable, Buyer must specify in the notice the number of Options being exercised on the relevant Exercise Date. Buyer will execute and deliver to Seller, or, if applicable, Seller’s Agent, a written confirmation confirming the substance of any telephonic notice within one Scheduled Trading Day of that notice. Without limiting the obligation of Buyer to provide such written confirmation, failure by Buyer to provide it will not affect the validity of the telephonic notice. view template Comments? Questions? Suggestions? Requests? Insults? We’d love to 📧 hear from you. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Article 3 Exercise of Options

Section 3.1. General Terms Relating to Exercise

3.1(a) Exercise Period
3.1(b) Exercise Date
3.1(c) Potential Exercise Date
3.1(d) Latest Exercise Time
3.1(e) Expiration Time
3.1(f) Expiration Date

Section 3.3. Multiple Exercise

“Multiple Exercise” crops up in a number of places in the extended ISDA Universe. The canonical definition is “Multiple Exercise” in the 2021 ISDA Interest Rate Derivatives Definitions, but it also shows up in the 2002 ISDA Equity Derivatives Definitions (Multiple Exercise) and the ISDA EU Emissions Annex (Multiple Exercise), in each case getting to the same point, but in marginally different language.

Section 3.4. Automatic Exercise

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Summary

All good mechanical stuff for legal eagle completists and those who have trouble sleeping. If you get into a dispute about this provision, you are truly beyond hope.

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See also

• Exercise of Options generally under Section 3.
• Crack drafting squad
• Stockholm syndrome

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