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LONDON (Reuters) – Argentina has been given permission to attraction after dropping a London lawsuit introduced by 4 hedge funds over euro-denominated securities which left the nation dealing with a roughly $1.5 billion invoice, Argentina’s legal professionals stated on Wednesday.
The funds, holding round 48% of the securities linked to Argentina’s gross home product in 2013, gained at trial and a decide dominated Argentina ought to pay 1.33 billion euros ($1.44 billion) plus curiosity in relation to all of the GDP-linked securities.
However Argentina was given permission to problem that ruling earlier this month, the nation’s legal professionals stated in court docket filings at a preliminary listening to on the Court docket of Enchantment in London.
Argentina, nevertheless, was granted permission to attraction on the situation that it pay round 310 million euros to be held in escrow pending the dedication of its attraction.
The nation requested the Court docket of Enchantment to rethink that situation, with its lawyer Tamara Oppenheimer arguing it could trigger “hurt to the folks of Argentina”.