Move over The Wealth of Nations, Das Kapital and Capitalism and Freedom over on your bookshelf; Commodity Derivatives is a worthy addition to these economic treatises.

Preface 5 Edmund Parker Part I: Introduction to commodity derivative products Overview and introduction to commodity derivatives 7 Edmund Parker Reasons for entering into commodity derivative transactions 37 Sabine Bertin Aaron McGarry Part II: Commodity derivative instruments Over-the-counter (OTC) commodity derivatives 63 Marcin Perzanowski Structured commodity derivatives 83 Sabine Bertin Dharini Collins Exchange-traded commodity derivatives 121 Dharini Collins Nanak Keswani Part III: ISDA commodity derivative documentation ISDA suite of commodity derivative documentation 149 Edmund Parker Marcin Perzanowski Introduction to the 2005 ISDA Commodity Definitions 175 Edmund Parker Marcin Perzanowski Standard commodity derivative confirmations 223 Marcin Perzanowski Bullion transactions 239 Marcin Perzanowski Weather index derivative transactions 263 Erica Johansson David Johnson Gas derivative transactions 283 Edmund Parker Power derivative transactions 317 Edmund Parker Emissions trading 335 Avanthi Gunatilake Edmund Parker Freight derivative transactions 367 Avanthi Gunatilake Edmund Parker Part IV: Other documentation platforms for commodity derivatives Overview of documentation produced by the Futures and Options Association 391 Danuta Rychlicka The European Federation of Energy Traders 433 Ellen Doubtfire Aimee Lewis Overview of other documentation platforms for OTC commodity derivatives 459 Amandeep Kharaud Part V: Tax and regulatory aspects of commodity derivative transactions Tax aspects of commodity derivative transactions 485 Sandy Bhogal Catriona Nicol UK and EU regulatory aspects of commodity derivatives 501 Miles Bake US regulation of commodity derivatives 529 Jeremiah Wagner About the authors 581 All authors are (or recently have been) lawyers working at Mayer Brown