Burford Capital vs. Argentina: The Multi-Billion Dollar Showdown Explained

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  • Опубликовано: 17 ноя 2024

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  • @MoreFormosa
    @MoreFormosa Год назад +95

    you dig up some really interesting and complex case studies that I've never heard of! great stuff bro

  • @ktktktktktktkt
    @ktktktktktktkt Год назад +77

    17:00 Argentina is my favourite company of all time.

    • @davec8921
      @davec8921 Год назад +10

      Yes they're a very large company

    • @travelinman70
      @travelinman70 Год назад +1

      yeah, that was a headscratcher. I wasn't really listening until then....I suppose he was talking about GDP and taxes, not sales and net income?

  • @ekwem
    @ekwem Год назад +63

    This is wild. I didn’t even know businesses like this existed. Buying shares in litigation funds? 😂😂😂

    • @codelessunlimited7701
      @codelessunlimited7701 Год назад +3

      Try Sabah Sultan of Sulu Phillipines vs Malaysia.

    • @ThomasinaAdams27
      @ThomasinaAdams27 Год назад

      my sentiments exactly

    • @EJD339
      @EJD339 7 месяцев назад

      I didn’t either but I assume they work similar to all those work compensations lawyers.

  • @samsonsoturian6013
    @samsonsoturian6013 Год назад +32

    Muddy Waters Research. These short selling vigilantes really do know how to pick good company names....

  • @econ__world
    @econ__world Год назад +35

    This case highlights the complex and often fraught relationship between sovereign nations and private investors, and the potential for lengthy and costly legal battles to resolve disputes.

    • @rory6984
      @rory6984 Год назад

      I think Argentina have just shot themselves in the foot. Its not like they're competently managing the oil well enough to offset the losses in confidence and foreign investment from actions like this.

  • @auraguard0212
    @auraguard0212 Год назад +26

    Imagine destroying your own currency, just to spite Burford Capital.

    • @joez.2794
      @joez.2794 Год назад +2

      I imagine it looks something like this 5:48

    • @TrueBlueVinn
      @TrueBlueVinn Год назад

      Just shows what an incompetent and useless people the Argentines are SMH...

    • @ProfAzimov
      @ProfAzimov Год назад

      ​@@joez.2794 Nah, that chart moved upwards

    • @joez.2794
      @joez.2794 Год назад +1

      @@ProfAzimov 5:49

    • @ProfAzimov
      @ProfAzimov Год назад

      @joez.2794 What I mean is that the chart shown has periods where it moves up in price, when the Argentine peso only goes down compared to the USD

  • @GodotOfficial
    @GodotOfficial Год назад +19

    17:02 “Argentina are still a large company”

  • @ktktktktktktkt
    @ktktktktktktkt Год назад +43

    I'm not sure the fair value adjustments are even necessary. Given the difficulty in valuing this asset, I believe they meet the conditions to record the asset at cost. That would be a huge cost savings. Accountants who specialize in valuations charge an arm and a leg...

    • @samsonsoturian6013
      @samsonsoturian6013 Год назад +2

      But they boost management's paper wealth ten fold. People feel richer if stock prices go up.

    • @lyroful
      @lyroful Год назад

      They will never get the money anyway, US will not intervene diplomatically for a small financial firm

    • @gregheffley2
      @gregheffley2 Год назад

      since it is a public company, i think it has to revalue the asset periodically for its financial statements. otherwise, the income would be too volatile.

    • @lyroful
      @lyroful Год назад

      @@gregheffley2 since there is absolutely zero chance that Argentina will pay, the j come should be zero anyway

  • @ultimaIXultima
    @ultimaIXultima Год назад +9

    Well done video. I hope the lower view count doesn't dissuade you for making more. I was impressed.

    • @wallstreetmillennial
      @wallstreetmillennial  Год назад +14

      Thank you! This is a niche topic so it's to be expected that the viewership isn't as high as some of our other videos. But we really enjoyed making this one and will continue to make more like it.

    • @joez.2794
      @joez.2794 Год назад

      @@wallstreetmillennial I very much enjoyed it, as most of your videos. Also please never start playing the *RUclips shorts game! 🙂

  • @djayjp
    @djayjp Год назад +32

    Superb research! Thx for putting this together.

  • @muiponcomuiponco772
    @muiponcomuiponco772 Год назад +23

    Cristina Kirchner was by far the worst thing that happened to Argentina, while many jumped like brainless monkeys celebrating the expropriation of YPF, now we are going to end up paying much more in compensation than what 100% of the company was worth at the time. And keep in mind that today we only have 51% of the company. GENIUS!

    • @nicolashrv
      @nicolashrv Год назад

      Indeed. This video has totally fake data regarding the Kirchner's and the reason for the expropriation........add to that, Chikillof and Cretina expropiated the company a couple of months prior to the historical drop in oil barrel's price (which also basically demolished Venezuela's economy).........this means if those imbecilic apes would have waited 5 months to expropriate, YPF would have costed 100 millions or less, basically, they could have just bought it legally, and Repsol would have gladly sell it for pennies.

  • @YT-mn4eq
    @YT-mn4eq Год назад +27

    How would paying this benefit Argentina? What do they stand to lose if they don't? Their unblemished credit rating?
    Given how much of the fund's valuation is tied up with this case, I'd be nervous.

    • @travelinman70
      @travelinman70 Год назад +5

      bonuses are probably tied to operating "profit" not cash flow or stock price. Given the wrong carrot the rabbit will rob you blind.

  • @jaad9848
    @jaad9848 Год назад +3

    The Repsol agreement to pay 88 dollars on a 12 dollar stock is crazy.

  • @djayjp
    @djayjp Год назад +19

    17:00 Yes, Argentina is a large corporation 😂

  • @jamesbrown1645
    @jamesbrown1645 Год назад +17

    There are four kinds of countries in the world: developed countries, undeveloped countries, Japan and Argentina.

  • @ReiniBlue
    @ReiniBlue Год назад +3

    Very interesting case I would never have heard of without you, cheers mate

  • @danphil5302
    @danphil5302 Год назад +17

    Me when I scam a international corporation 5:48

  • @Simonjose7258
    @Simonjose7258 Год назад +8

    The were required to Privatize YPF by the IMF.

    • @Nswix
      @Nswix Год назад +1

      And it thrived. Until they renationalized it and then it became like everything else the Argentine government controls.

    • @benchoflemons398
      @benchoflemons398 Год назад

      The IMF should stop giving these flunks anything

  • @icemanleo
    @icemanleo Год назад +18

    Another gift of the Fernandez government

  • @CHMichael
    @CHMichael Год назад +4

    That sounds similar to what got Venezuela and iran kicked out of the international community.

    • @ezequielstersciuckz9330
      @ezequielstersciuckz9330 Год назад

      That's the political use of some many invented debts...

    • @CHMichael
      @CHMichael Год назад

      @ezequielstersciuckz9330 they just elected a new president.
      Did the lawsuit go away or is it part of the problem?

    • @ezequielstersciuckz9330
      @ezequielstersciuckz9330 11 месяцев назад

      @@CHMichael Considering what is involved they (IMF) will never let that debt go away if we can call it like that.. Worlds resources don't belong to countries but to international companies and all govts act in their favor of course!

  • @TheLexikitty
    @TheLexikitty 8 месяцев назад

    Wild that Argentina would just steal half of an oil company and expect it to be intact the next day.

  • @ardurabangarang7397
    @ardurabangarang7397 Год назад +2

    16:59
    Yeah, that’s a pretty large “company” lol

  • @lyroful
    @lyroful Год назад +11

    How is a New York court going to get the Argentine government to pay

    • @tomkandy
      @tomkandy Год назад +9

      Back in the good old days, they'd have sent in the gunboats

    • @Monkechnology
      @Monkechnology Год назад +6

      ​@@tomkandy that's why Brasil and Argentina had nuclear programmes in the 70s. After all yanks act tough on small countries (like Irak or Libya) but muddy their trousers as soon as a nation gets some nukes lmao

    • @muiponcomuiponco772
      @muiponcomuiponco772 Год назад

      The Argentine state not only has assets in Argentina, it also has assets in the world. At the time they wanted to seize the Libertad Frigate, although it was for another case, or rather another K shit. Those assets are going to be seized. Not paying is worse! What you have to do is stop voting for populists like the Kirchners who expropriate and also do it badly. That is the real way to not pay in the future.

    • @somethinglikethat2176
      @somethinglikethat2176 Год назад +2

      Allow the seizure of assets if the government doesn't pay, probably.

    • @lyroful
      @lyroful Год назад +1

      @@somethinglikethat2176 hard to foresee anything like that happening as it quickly trends on sovereign immunity stuff

  • @davis907
    @davis907 Год назад +2

    Thanks vor this Great case study

  • @samsonsoturian6013
    @samsonsoturian6013 Год назад +13

    Who wants to bet the new management team the President hired are her personal friends and family?

  • @carboy101
    @carboy101 Год назад +88

    Investing in Argentina is never a good idea. Argentina is allergic to paying

    • @samsonsoturian6013
      @samsonsoturian6013 Год назад +22

      They have a Roaring 20s and Great Depression cycle every decade or two.

    • @AllHailNannerpuss
      @AllHailNannerpuss Год назад +5

      "allergic to paying"
      Just get another payday loan

    • @Nswix
      @Nswix Год назад +15

      I lived there for 9 months and it was a nightmare. Nothing works. The whole country is stuck in the past.

    • @blackice214
      @blackice214 Год назад +1

      @@samsonsoturian6013 I don’t know about the first part 😂

    • @samsonsoturian6013
      @samsonsoturian6013 Год назад +6

      @@Nswix The past? Argentina is pretty average, globally speaking.

  • @Nswix
    @Nswix Год назад +4

    Eton is pronounced 'eaton'

  • @joez.2794
    @joez.2794 Год назад +1

    5:48 🤣🤣 Dancing fool. Literally.

  • @thewildformosanformosan
    @thewildformosanformosan Год назад +4

    Never take on an entity that owns an army

  • @harry8912
    @harry8912 Год назад +18

    Doesn’t matter what the courts decide. Here in Mexico Argentines are known as slimy people to never do business with. THEY RARELY PAY YOU BACK. I mean their companies and business doers. I’m not saying individual entities.

    • @TrueBlueVinn
      @TrueBlueVinn Год назад

      Just shows what an incompetent and useless people the Argentines are SMH...

  • @Visiontech
    @Visiontech 8 месяцев назад

    Another home run video! Thanks

  • @TheCrusher72
    @TheCrusher72 11 месяцев назад

    I mean who in their right mind would invest in anything in Argentina or Venezuela!?!?!

  • @kylo_ben
    @kylo_ben Год назад +2

    When a Kirchner is criticising you, you’re doing something right.

  • @saladien9987
    @saladien9987 Год назад +3

    "argentina is still a large company" good to know but its a company thats badly managed ;)

  • @germanshepherd6638
    @germanshepherd6638 Год назад +12

    Hahaha! Socialism works for the Fernandez family but no one else! 😂❤

  • @OGDeepStroke
    @OGDeepStroke Год назад

    Bro, they are Argentine, it is the Argentine economy.

  • @huddunlap3999
    @huddunlap3999 Год назад

    I don't believe in short selling.

  • @DaleFruta-pn2rs
    @DaleFruta-pn2rs 7 месяцев назад

    Oka, oka, ATADORA BURFORD SMART SERVO.

  • @ReiGon-wy3kf
    @ReiGon-wy3kf Год назад +6

    Hahahaha I'm not the sensitive type.. Plus I'm not argentinian.. But damn that thumb nail is.... Hahahah

  • @melvincoleman595
    @melvincoleman595 Год назад +1

    Wait they just won the football championship! I am confused.

  • @jamesmitch9792
    @jamesmitch9792 Год назад +8

    honestly we should also expropriate the oil here in the US
    we can finally lower the gas prices, and not have to depend on the good will of wall street.

    • @floxy20
      @floxy20 Год назад +16

      Congratulations! The dumbest comment of the day. Keep up the good work and keep on never consulting an economic or history text.

    • @travelinman70
      @travelinman70 Год назад

      @@floxy20 he's arguing the old supply / demand redneck economic theory. If gas prices are lower for me, then I can afford a bigger loan for a bigger truck and a bigger loan for a bigger boat, thereby creating more jobs! All operating costs are paid visa-vie credit card until maxed out, truck and boat repossessed, locked out of the trailer, move back next door to mom's trailer. Then I file personal bankruptcy again to stick it to the liberals and start all over again, this time with guns!!!!

    • @sovo1212
      @sovo1212 Год назад

      This would've been a good idea 50 years ago, but oil hasn't much future now.

  • @d1Knight
    @d1Knight Год назад

    Argentina is a large "company"

  • @lolzorsPwnage
    @lolzorsPwnage 8 месяцев назад

    I love Argentina but the Argentinian government is not going to pay. Especially with the new president

  • @doolittlegeorge
    @doolittlegeorge Год назад

    Argentina has IMF issues as well...speaking of sovereigns. Why anyone should repay anything at the moment is quite the mystery in point of fact. Not really a fan of oil at this price at the moment remains an understatement tho.
    Long $kmi Kinder Morgan Energy strong buy.

  • @amorosogombe9650
    @amorosogombe9650 Год назад +2

    Argentina doesn't think expropriating international companies hurts FDI? No wonder the peso has gone to the dogs.

    • @ezequielstersciuckz9330
      @ezequielstersciuckz9330 Год назад

      It was a staged expropiation for private business my friend.. if any debt there will be on the people expense.. thats why corruption/business works

  • @havencat9337
    @havencat9337 Год назад +5

    LOL...this Burford guys will get pessos

  • @kuntakinte5421
    @kuntakinte5421 9 месяцев назад

    I binge on these videos. Great insight into financial matters, you guys. Now I see why it's tough (nearly impossible) for my South Africa 🇿🇦 government to expropriate gold mines and other mineral mines owned by American companies and British companies. If we were to expropriate like Zimbabwe did, we would be financially and economically sanctioned to death. It will be economic suicide. The USA 🇺🇸 has done everything, legal and by lethal force, to protect its interests and those of its citizens in other countries' resources. This is why Americans, as much as they know the depths of the USA evil doings, would never do anything to oppose the USA 🇺🇸 because they, too, at an individual level benefit

  • @ajr993
    @ajr993 Год назад +12

    There are some very negative connotations associated with vultures despite the fact that they do a vital service. Vultures are a critical part of keeping the ecosystem clean. Similarly vulture funds fill a crucial and necessary role that people should appreciate.
    They clean up shit debt no one else wants to deal with, and then they punish the shitty misbehaving countries that just want a handout. Argentina should have to pay through the nose, they should not get a write off and they should experience a lot of pain for their mismanagement. We can't just keep writing off debt for a country every 20 years because they always overspend. This debt forgiveness welfare system is getting absurd, I appreciate the vulture funds for their services

    • @Monkechnology
      @Monkechnology Год назад +8

      Bet you were one of those shills crying "short sellers are good ppl" when WSB was beating the sht out of the hedgies lmao

    • @seymourclearly
      @seymourclearly Год назад

      So make the people of Argentina suffer so that some greedy rich people can get richer. This isn't a game. There is a country full of people who are suffering. Americas greed knows no bounds

  • @retrojay86
    @retrojay86 Год назад +3

    Good luck collecting 🤡

    • @ezequielstersciuckz9330
      @ezequielstersciuckz9330 Год назад

      Watch USA they have the biggest debt.. never really pay and they do great so far lol

  • @roelkomduur8073
    @roelkomduur8073 2 месяца назад

    It's always handy to have an US Supreme Court Judge in your back pocket...

  • @jburron
    @jburron Год назад +3

    It’s not Ee-ton Park. It is said Eat-on park. Eton is a VERY famous school that you should know how to pronounce.

  • @evitoonbundit2453
    @evitoonbundit2453 Год назад +3

    No wonder Argentine (like many other countries in South America, Africa, Middle East and Asia) is drifting towards the BRICS in order to escape a weaponized financial system.

    • @nicolashrv
      @nicolashrv Год назад +1

      Argentina is a DEFAULT MACHINE who requests loans and never pais, and never pays because has a cronic desease called SOCIALISM, which had a deficitary budget for the last 70 years, each year worse than the one before.

    • @TrueBlueVinn
      @TrueBlueVinn Год назад

      Just shows what an incompetent and useless people the Argentines are SMH... Too much pride to pay back, but too little skills and ability to make money 😂😂😂

    • @Beck-tr7dd
      @Beck-tr7dd Год назад

      Yeah don't pay the debt you owe to China and see what happens

  • @elvoandro7087
    @elvoandro7087 Год назад

    @WSM please consider putting your content on twitter