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Frank: Do you want to handle this or shall I?
Sara Shackleton Enron North America Corp. 1400 Smith Street, EB 3801a Houston, Texas 77002 713-853-5620 (phone) 713-646-3490 (fax) sara.shackleton@enron.com ----- Forwarded by Sara Shackleton/HOU/ECT on 05/22/2001 09:06 AM ----- Carol St Clair 05/22/2001 09:02 AM To: Caroline Abramo/Corp/Enron@Enron cc: Frank Sayre/ENRON_DEVELOPMENT@ENRON_DEVELOPMENT, Sara Shackleton/HOU/ECT@ECT, Paul Radous/Enron@EnronXGate, Russell Dyk/Corp/Enron@ENRON Subject: AIG Legal Opinion Caroline, As I have said from the outset, before we send them an ISDA, we need to obtain from their Bermuda counsel a legal opinion that gives us the assurances that we need that (1) all of the Bermuda transactions have been duly authorized and are enforceable by us against AIG and (2) we have a perfected security interest in any collateral that has been posted by AIG to us. A form of the legal opinion is attached to the confirm. As to point #1, we have no way of confirming this on our own and I understand from Brent Hendry that because of various peculiarities with Bermuda law, our only way of gaining comfort on this is through the legal opinion process. As to point #2, we have gotten some comfort from our legal counsel on this but again it is appropriate to have AIG's counsel opine as to this. Please call or e-mail me, Sara or Frank if you have any additional questions. Carol St. Clair EB 3889 713-853-3989 (Phone) 713-646-3393 (Fax) carol.st.clair@enron.com
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