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Recent shifts in international tariff policies have created significant uncertainty for US importers. As a buyer, revisiting your supply contracts now can help safeguard your business from unexpected costs and disruptions. ...more
The current worldwide focus on tariffs, paired with reciprocal tariffs from various affected states, is likely to have significant impact on the costs of cross-border trade. Businesses focused on importing and exporting goods...more
The recent imposition of tariffs by the U.S. government has introduced significant complexities in contractual performance and risk allocation. It is important to assess how these tariffs may influence material adverse change...more
As the Trump Administration’s tariffs are now in effect, owners, developers, and contractors managing pending construction projects face questions about who is ultimately responsible for impacts (both time and cost) resulting...more
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We are starting to hear reports of businesses declaring the Trump Administration's Executive Order on tariffs to be a force majeure event under their contracts. Most of us now have rather more experience than we'd like to of...more
Winter Storm Uri sent shockwaves through Texas, freezing gas supplies at a time of critical need and plunging the state into widespread power outages. In the aftermath, the courts have been flooded with force majeure claims,...more
By effectively extracting data from contracts, organizations can gain valuable insights into their legal and financial obligations, opportunities for negotiation, and areas of risk, thereby making informed decisions that...more
In the UK Supreme Court's judgment in RTI Ltd v MUR Shipping BV [2024] UKSC 18, which was handed down last week, it considered what obligations the words “reasonable endeavours” placed on a party, in the context of a force...more
In what some may regard as a surprising outcome, the English Court of Appeal has held that a force majeure clause was not triggered because the affected party could have accepted performance that was not in accordance with...more
The ongoing conflict in Ukraine has had a significant impact on commercial activity for many organizations on a local and international scale. Organizations with commercial operations in the region (both Ukraine and Russia)...more
Recorded at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, Kilpatrick Townsend Partner Thomas G. Allen discusses the elements of force majeure as seen through the lens of successfully representing a client in a nine-figure force...more
The ongoing conflict in Ukraine, and the severe sanctions imposed by governments globally in response to Russia's aggression, are having extreme effects on parties' legal obligations, and are drastically altering the...more
Another judgment on force majeure and COVID-19. Here a rugby broadcaster was entitled to terminate for cancelled matches even though it had also been affected by the pandemic....more
The pandemic has put many contractual relationships under immense pressure. We explored in our last Business as (un)usual article some of the problems which contracting parties may have inadvertently created for themselves...more
Please join Troutman Pepper for the second installment of its COVID-19 Commercial Leasing Trends Podcast series on legal and business issues confronted by companies in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Moderated by Troutman...more
I have previously written about the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on force majeure provisions in a commercial contract. A force majeure clause may excuse a party from performing its contract because of an...more
"It cannot be seriously disputed that the COVID-19 pandemic is a natural disaster." This seemingly straightforward conclusion has only been reached in a small number of reported court decisions since the start of the...more
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The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic constituted a “natural disaster” under a contract’s force majeure provision, Judge Denise Cote of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York recently ruled in JN...more
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