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When is an Event of Default no longer “continuing” under the ISDA Master Agreement?

Edward Davis of Stephenson Harwood summarises the recent Lehman Brothers group case where the Court considered what constitutes a “continuing default” under the ISDA Master Agreement, and determined that the correct test to apply is whether the event or state of affairs that constituted the event of default remains, not whether creditors’ rights remain affected.