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Now imagine that rather than [[Nationalization, Insolvency and Delisting - Equity Derivatives Provision|Nationalizing]], a national government announced some draconian law preventing corporations in its jurisdiction from accessing the international capital markets even through [[depositary receipt]] programmes — you know, something crazy like that.<ref>Attentive readers may wonder whether this is really a figment of the [[JC]]’s imagination, or something the Russian State ''Duma'' actually did, in April 2022.</ref> So say, ooh: the DRs must be converted into underlying shares within a stipulated period, failing which the underlying shares lose their dividend and voting rights (and therefore become largely worthless: I guess they entitle a holder to a pro-rata share of the assets of the company on a non-insolvent winding up of the company or something like that? | Now imagine that rather than [[Nationalization, Insolvency and Delisting - Equity Derivatives Provision|Nationalizing]], a national government announced some draconian law preventing corporations in its jurisdiction from accessing the international capital markets even through [[depositary receipt]] programmes — you know, something crazy like that.<ref>Attentive readers may wonder whether this is really a figment of the [[JC]]’s imagination, or something the Russian State ''Duma'' actually did, in April 2022.</ref> So say, ooh: the DRs must be converted into underlying shares within a stipulated period, failing which the underlying shares lose their dividend and voting rights (and therefore become largely worthless: I guess they entitle a holder to a pro-rata share of the assets of the company on a non-insolvent winding up of the company or something like that? | ||
The common sense (and economically correct) answer is “this is all the customer’s risk” | The common sense (and economically correct) answer is “this is all the customer’s risk” — remember the mantra: this is just equity brokerage done with swaps, so just imagine what would happen, dear customer, if you held the ADR directly. Whose problem would that be? | ||
So you | That said, the {{eqdefs}} don’t do a magnificent job of specifically dealing with what is undoubtedly an extremely far-fetched situation. For once, we should not be too exacting on {{icds}} here. I mean, who ever heard of a government forcing local issuers to unwind their [[GDR]]s just to spite hostile foreign investors? | ||
So, anyway, you are a [[swap dealer]], everything is messy as hell, your customer is on the horn asking what the hell is going on. You, naturally, will be as accommodating and constructive as you can in looking for outcomes for your client, but would still like the peace of mind of knowing, should everything go ''[[titten hoch]]'', you can cancel the swap and walk away, paying a nugatory {{eqderivprov|Cancellation Amount}} based on the worthlessness of the underliers. How can you? | |||
*'''{{eqderivprov|Nationalization, Insolvency and Delisting}}''': this probably: | *'''{{eqderivprov|Nationalization, Insolvency and Delisting}}''': this probably: | ||
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:*Isn’t an [[insolvency]] | :*Isn’t an [[insolvency]] | ||
:*It isn’t *inherently* a delisting (though ''de facto'' almost certainly will be as the international (...er ''hostile''?...) {{eqderivprov|Exchange}}s will most likely delist the DRs, but they don’t ''have'' to) | :*It isn’t *inherently* a delisting (though ''de facto'' almost certainly will be as the international (...er ''hostile''?...) {{eqderivprov|Exchange}}s will most likely delist the DRs, but they don’t ''have'' to) | ||
*'''{{eqderivprov|Triple Cocktail}}''' | |||
:*It isn’t a {{eqderivprov|Change in Law}} as that refers to laws impacting the counterparties to the trade, not the {{eqderivprov|Issuer}}; | :*It isn’t a {{eqderivprov|Change in Law}} as that refers to laws impacting the counterparties to the trade, not the {{eqderivprov|Issuer}}; | ||
:*It isn’t an {{eqderivprov|Increased Cost of Hedging}}. well — it just isn’t, is it? | |||
:*It may be a {{eqderivprov|Hedging Disruption}} – I mean it is hard to hedge an instrument that has just been compusorily dissolved, right? — though is disappearance of an instrument altogether so that there is nothing to replicate the return of at all really just a hedge disruption? | :*It may be a {{eqderivprov|Hedging Disruption}} – I mean it is hard to hedge an instrument that has just been compusorily dissolved, right? — though is disappearance of an instrument altogether so that there is nothing to replicate the return of at all really just a hedge disruption? | ||
Also useful at least by way of analogy is “Tender Offer”. It’s not quite on point – but close, and perhaps useful by way of analogy should you have counterparties that are in denial about the fact that, from a very basic standpoint, ''they'' are the ones that are long local “craziest regulator in the room” risk, and not their long-suffering swap dealer. | Also useful at least by way of analogy is “Tender Offer”. It’s not quite on point – but close, and perhaps useful by way of analogy should you have counterparties that are in denial about the fact that, from a very basic standpoint, ''they'' are the ones that are long local “craziest regulator in the room” risk, and not their long-suffering swap dealer. | ||