A bilateral contract consists of a deal between two parties (hence the "bi" part if it, like bicycle or bifocal or any other "bi" that you can think of, because we certainly can't think of any). Under the deal, one side promises to do something and the other side promises to do something in return.
The agreed exchange could be as basic as "I give you this thing and you give me some money." A bilateral contract is fundamentally a fancy term for what everyone thinks of as a standard vanilla contract.
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Finance a la shmoop what is counterparty risk?
alright here's you the party and here's the guy you're contracting with to sell [Woman and man stood side by side]
18 tons of bricks or buy a line of credit for your flower shop or sell a
futures contract with the right to buy oil at 80 bucks a barrel for the next [Person signs contract]
two years so you're the party and he's the counterparty and the yin and yang of
the party and here's the risk yeah well the counterparty risk is just
that the person you contracted with doesn't live up to their end of the
bargain you pay them good money you sign a good contract all lawyered up and [Stack of money and contract appears]
stuff and then they split like totally split disappeared sea men choose the
bottom of the ocean maybe they went to Bora Bora
maybe they got facial surgery in the Philippines you know they do that now [George Clooney in a surgical bed]
well when that happens you will probably feel like crying and you should its your
counterparty you can cry if you want to come on that was a good reference people [Man singing]
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