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It is through the offices of antitrust law that your plan to meet your buddy from Morgan Stanley for lunch, attend an industry round-table about Phase 5 Margin protocols will send your compliance department into high orbit. It is the [[legal eagle]]’s worst nightmare — that an innocent conversation about something sensible will see you both sent to jail.
It is through the offices of antitrust law that your plan to meet your buddy from Morgan Stanley for lunch, attend an industry round-table about Phase 5 Margin protocols will send your compliance department into high orbit. It is the [[legal eagle]]’s worst nightmare — that an innocent conversation about something sensible will see you both sent to jail.


This is normally harmless nest-feathering of course, and simply allows parasitic law firms to nuzzle away at the collective arteries of the financial system in how they write netting opinions, but occasionally, as in the [[Archegos]] situation, the paranoid fear of one kind of opprobrium can lead to the very real prospect of another.
This is normally harmless nest-feathering of course, and simply allows parasitic law firms to nuzzle away at the collective arteries of the financial system in how they write [[Netting opinion|netting opinions]] unbothered by earnest attempts to force them into some kind of consistency, but occasionally, as in the [[Archegos]] situation, the paranoid fear of one kind of opprobrium — being told off for collaborating in an anticompetitive way —can lead to the very real prospect of another — losing, between you, 10 billion dolllars.
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