Examples of ISDA Agreement in a sentence
According to the First Defendant, this meant that there had not yet been a valid determination of the Close out Amount, and accordingly, in terms of the LBSF Transaction, the First Defendant was entitled to provide the Claimant with a new and revised determination.Due to the fact that this case raised issues relating to the interpretation of the 2002 ISDA Agreement, which was of general market importance, the case was listed on the Financial List of the United Kingdom.
VALUE This case confirms that a non-defaulting party, when calculating a Close out Amount following an event of default under the 2002 ISDA Agreement, is required to act objectively reasonably and to produce an objectively commercially reasonable result, rather than just being required to act “rationally”.
The Court rejected this argument and stated that on a true interpretation of the 2002 ISDA Agreement, the early termination and the determination of the Close out Amount were significant contractual events which affected the relationship between the parties and which were not reversible (save by agreement or by way of an order of court).
As a result of the Claimant’s default, on 17 October 2008, the First Respondent served notice of early termination in respect of the LBSF Transaction, designating 3 November 2008 as the “early termination date” (the “Early Termination Date”).In terms of the 2002 ISDA Agreement, the First Defendant’s obligation as the non-defaulting party, was to provide the “Close out Amount” which was a calculation statement setting out the amountwhich was due by or owed to each of the parties.
However, in this regard, a higher objective standard of reasonableness, which is analogous to the duty to take reasonable care, should be applied to the First Defendant’s decision making.The Court held that the First Defendant’s original determination, based on the UBS Replacement Transaction, did, in fact, comply with the requirements under the definition of Close out Amount in the 2002 ISDA Agreement, save for two errors in the original determination.