The Incredible, Magical, Shrinking Injunction?

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Judge Griesa has approved Citibank's request to transfer funds it received in payment of both dollar- and peso-denominated, Argentine-law bonds. Order attached. The difficulty, as described in this recent letter from Citibank, is that some of the country's Argentine-law bonds are subject to the injunction, and some are not. The latter group includes bonds issued as part of the country's settlement with Repsol. But it isn't possible to distinguish the payments, because all the bonds have the same ISIN number. Oops. What to do? Judge Griesa "does not wish to upset the settlement with Repsol," so he has allowed Citibank to make payment on all of the Argentine-law bonds, including exchange bonds subject to the injunction. But just this once. The parties are supposed to work together to "devise a way to distinguish between the Repsol bonds and the exchange bonds before the next interest payment is due." I'm not sure how that will work, but I suppose there are bigger fish to fry at the moment. Tick tock. Tick tock.

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3 responses to “The Incredible, Magical, Shrinking Injunction?”

  1. Adrián Heinst Avatar
    Adrián Heinst

    What’s unclear is whether dollar Discounts exchanged in 2010 (ARARGE03G688) were released for one time as well or still have interest payments on hold.

  2. Federico Thomsen Avatar
    Federico Thomsen

    Ahh, but did you read this, explaining that deciding to use the same ISIN number was a choice?
    http://www.shearman.com/~/media/Files/Services/Argentine-Sovereign-Debt/2014/Arg133-072814-Letter.pdf

  3. Mark Weidemaier Avatar

    Federico – Oh yes. The “oops” was intended as mild sarcasm.