New York Enacts Legislative 'Fix' for Legacy LIBOR Contracts Governed by NY Law; Will a Federal Fix Be Next? | Morgan Lewis
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The State of New York has enacted a new law that should ease the transition away from US dollar LIBOR for legacy financial contracts that are governed by New York law but do not contain modern benchmark fallback provisions. A similar federal law is in the works, which if passed would apply nationwide. The London Inter-Bank Offered Rate, or LIBOR, is a global interest rate benchmark index based on the average of the inter-bank offered rates for deposits of various currencies and durations in the London market based on quotations of m...