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Eligible Financial Contracts

Reference Material: Listed below are internet accessible legal papers about eligible financial contracts and spot, future, forward and other commodity contracts.

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Contents

• Canadian Energy Contracts: The Impact Of Blue Range, Enron and NESI. Steven H. Leitl, Macleod Dixon LLP, September 7, 2004.
• Shades Of Blue: Derivatives In Re Blue Range Resource Corp. Rupert H. Chartrand and Robin B. Schwill, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, February 16, 2001.
• Appeal Court Clarifies Definition of Eligible Financial Contracts in Insolvencies. "... in a decision released on August 31, 2000, the Alberta Court of Appeal ... ruled that a physically-settled forward commodity contract was an eligible financial contract, provided it was a contract for fungible commodities that trade in a liquid and volatile market." Shelley Obal and Steven Smith, The Osler Outlook, September 21, 2000.
• Eligible Financial Contract Defined. Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act, [R.S. 1985, c. C-36].

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