* Weston believes that a significant portion of derivative liabilities incurred by the large Mexican corporations could be settled at a fraction of face value and replaced with suitable hedging products.

* Weston believes that the settlement negotiations generally have been one-sided and non-confrontational due to the analytical and contractual advantages of foreign bank counter-parties.

* Weston believes that the Mexican corporations and their advisors have been and remain severely challenged by the analytics required for accurately valuing exotic derivatives and structures that due to their complexity have been unsuitable to such clients from the beginning.

* Weston believes that hedge effectiveness, suitability, and economic valuation require both analytics, and legal expertise typical of wall street banks and advisory firms.

* Weston believes the wall street expertise in derivatives analytics and legal analysis that Mexican corporations need must also be totally unconflicted from Wall Street Derivatives Business Units.

* Furthermore Mexican corporates need battle-hardened financial restructuring and litigation expertise to integrate the derivatives restructuring into an overall restructuring effort.