Ed Christian Mark Sherrill

September 26, 2017 | New York Law Journal

Courts have generally found that make-whole provisions do not provide for the payment of unmatured interest, nor are they unenforceable liquidated damages provisions. It would behoove the court in 'Ultra Petroleum' to continue the precedent on these issues, because failure to do so would call into question the ever-important principle that when evaluating documents governed by New York law, courts will generally defer to the mutual intent of the parties as manifested within the four corners of the document.

By Ed Christian, Mark Sherrill and Alex Brown

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