Energy traders ignore legal risk at their peril
Legal risk can be disastrous but is hard to tackle, argues Kaminski
From the point of view of quantitative modelling, legal risk is one of the least explored exposures hidden in the business of any energy company. This is not surprising: legal risk is heterogeneous, multidimensional and defies efforts to analyse it in a quantitative way.
Nevertheless, it is important. Legal risk tends to metastasise into price or credit exposures, reputational hazard, lost business, excessive litigation costs and the diversion of managerial energy into unproductive activities
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