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# Unfinished Business: Swap Participants Gain Ground

  May 2009

The Bankruptcy Strategist

 

 

 

 

 

 

The article provides in-depth analysis of the *National Gas Distributors* case, which could provide parties to settled commodities transactions the protections of the safe harbor provisions of the Bankruptcy Code. However, they conclude a bright-line definition of the commodity forward agreements and their safe harbor protections remain yet to be determined by the courts.

 

 

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