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=== | ===“[[Change in Law - Equity Derivatives Provision|It]] has become illegal”=== | ||
For those inclined to look even gift horses in the mouth, this provision may appear to leave some things unsaid. | For those inclined to look even gift horses in the mouth, this provision may appear to leave some things unsaid. | ||
====Some ''other'' way of holding {{eqderivprov|Shares}}=== | ====Some ''other'' way of holding {{eqderivprov|Shares}}==== | ||
What if it has become illegal to hold {{eqderivprov|Shares}} ''the way the {{eqderivprov|Hedging Party}} is holding them'', but it remains legal to hold them some ''other'' way? For example, if Shares needed to be listed on a certain {{eqderivprov|Exchange}}, or cleared across a certain clearinghouse? At first blush this seems fanciful but before you laugh don’t forget this was one of the potential consequences of [[Brexit means Brexit|Brexit]] — and for the Swissies — when the EU share trading obligation row blew up in 2019. | What if it has become illegal to hold {{eqderivprov|Shares}} ''the way the {{eqderivprov|Hedging Party}} is holding them'', but it remains legal to hold them some ''other'' way? For example, if Shares needed to be listed on a certain {{eqderivprov|Exchange}}, or cleared across a certain clearinghouse? At first blush this seems fanciful but before you laugh don’t forget this was one of the potential consequences of [[Brexit means Brexit|Brexit]] — and for the Swissies — when the EU share trading obligation row blew up in 2019. | ||
Even leaving aside the direction that one must act in [[good faith]] in arriving at one’s conclusion, it is hard to see how one could say it was “''illegal'' to hold | Even leaving aside the direction that one must act in [[good faith]] in arriving at one’s conclusion, it is hard to see how one could say it was “''illegal'' to hold {{eqderivprov|Shares}}” if in fact one ''could'' legally hold those {{eqderivprov|Shares}} some other way. So this one’s a bit silly. | ||
====''Other'' hedges, without {{eqderivprov|Shares}}, still possible=== | ====''Other'' hedges, without {{eqderivprov|Shares}}, still possible==== | ||
What if one could [[hedge]] via [[futures]], [[derivatives]], [[GDR]]s or some other instrument without significant extra cost or inconvenience? Would that still count as a Change in Law, just because you couldn't hedge with actual {{eqderivprov|Shares}}? | What if one could [[hedge]] via [[futures]], [[derivatives]], [[GDR]]s or some other instrument without significant extra cost or inconvenience? Would that still count as a {{eqderivprov|Change in Law}}, just because you couldn't hedge with actual {{eqderivprov|Shares}}? | ||
But is “hold, acquire or dispose of {{eqderivprov|Shares}} relating to such {{eqderivprov|Transaction}}” too narrow when a {{eqderivprov|Hedging Party}} may be able to hedge some other way (i.e., via [[futures]], [[swaps]], [[depositary receipts]] and so on)? | But is “hold, acquire or dispose of ''{{eqderivprov|Shares}}'' relating to such {{eqderivprov|Transaction}}” too narrow when a {{eqderivprov|Hedging Party}} may be able to hedge some other way (i.e., via [[futures]], [[swaps]], [[depositary receipts]] and so on)? | ||
Well, as fussy as it may seem, it is hard to fault in its basic logic. {{icds}} | Well, as fussy as it may seem, it is hard to fault in its basic logic. The scope entertained by {{icds}} does seem a shade narrow, talking as it does only of {{eqderivprov|Shares}} and not other instruments by which one could [[hedge]] an exposure. Not even our old friend the [[good faith]] rider can win the day here, since the clause only talks about acquiring, holding or disposing of {{eqderivprov|Shares}} themselves. On the other hand, if a jurisdiction has declared the very act of holding a physical {{eqderivprov|Share}} illegal, it is hard to see anyone in the jurisdiction offering a swap on it, so this may be more of a theoretical than a practical objection, especially where it is a [[synthetic equity swap]] where the hedging party has no incentive not to accommodate its client if it can source an alternative legal, somehow-derivative, [[hedge]]. | ||
You may, therefore, gracefully concede. We don’t think you’ll have to | You may be [[inclined]], therefore, gracefully to concede. We don’t think you’ll have to do this often, this is a bit of an aficionado’s point. So, [[knee-slide and jet wings]] to the whoever the [[negotiator]] was who thought of it. |