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Protecting Your Bottom Line: Adjusting Supply Chain Contracts to Mitigate Tariff Impacts

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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

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Covid-19, Force Majeure, And Impossibility—Still A High Bar To Win

In the wake of Covid-19, litigants have increasingly sought to excuse contractual performance by invoking force majeure clauses or the doctrine of impossibility. Yet despite the numerous (and creative) Covid-19-related...more

Best Best & Krieger LLP

Best in Law: Contracts During the COVID-19 Pandemic

BB&K Attorney Todd Gee Shares Key Actions During a Pandemic in the Southern California Newspaper Group - The COVID-19 outbreak is a striking example of how something unexpected can upend a wide variety of industries in an...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Reemergence of the Doctrine of Temporary Impracticality or Frustration Under Section 269 of the Restatement (Second) of Contracts...

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When trying to understand the full impact of COVID-19 on existing contractual obligations, parties will likely first consult force majeure provisions in their contracts to assess their rights or liabilities for continued...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Force Majeure: Friend or Foe Amidst COVID-19

This Katten advisory considers how UK businesses could seek to rely on the principles of force majeure or frustration to suspend or end performance of contractual obligations (without liability) should that be required in...more

Pullman & Comley, LLC

Does the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Allow Reliance On Your Contract’s Force Majeure Provision? The Language Matters

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The impact of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) is being felt throughout every sector of our society. Mandated government quarantines and temporary business closures, work-from-home requirements, shelter-in-place orders,...more

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Applicability of Force Majeure and Impossibility in the Wake of COVID-19 Under New York Law

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In the wake of the recent COVID-19 pandemic, and its economic disruption, some contracting parties may seek to be excused from performance under their contracts. For contracts subject to New York law, including insurance...more

Williams Mullen

"An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure" - Commercial Contracts in the Era of Coronavirus (COVID-19)

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With the spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the United States, many of our clients are facing the mass cancellation of events and damaging service interruptions. This disruption can cripple one’s business, so clients are...more

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COVID-19 and Its Growing Impact on Commercial Contracts: How Should Contracting Parties Respond?

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COVID-19 is causing a rapidly evolving public health crisis, and businesses face uncertainty about their commercial relationships. That uncertainty is raising questions about performance under contractual agreements that were...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Beyond Coronavirus: How to Prepare Your Business for the Pandemic Era

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With more than 153,000 cases reported globally (as of March 15, 2020), including more than 1,600 in the United States (as of March 13, 2020)–and both totals increasing by the hour–the COVID-19 pandemic is already wreaking...more

Hogan Lovells

Coronavirus as a contractual force majeure event: A simple checklist

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Email overload on whether the new coronavirus, COVID-19, triggers a force majeure clause? Whether you're considering a claim, worried about receiving one or busy drafting following the outbreak, here's our 10-point,...more

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Coronavirus and the Energy Industry: Drilling into Force Majeure Clauses

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Many oil and gas contracts – leases and JOAs for example – have force majeure clauses. The purpose is to allow contracting parties to suspend or terminate performance when certain circumstances arise that are beyond their...more

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Coronavirus FAQ: Key corporate and commercial considerations

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The global outbreak of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 is having profound implications for businesses all over the world. A Hogan Lovells team of corporate and commercial lawyers from the United Kingdom, United States, and...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Your Contracts in a Coronavirus World

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The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic continues to have a devastating impact on human health, life and economic activity around the world. The virus has caused severe disruptions to the global economy, including the banning of...more

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Keep Calm — and Look at Your Contract(s)

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Whether you cannot meet your supply obligations because your supply chain has come to a screeching halt or you are losing income because conferences, sports, or cultural events are cancelled and your contract partners do not...more

Stinson - Government Contracting Matters

Force Majeure and the Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Generally speaking, entities that enter into contracts are bound to perform them. However, as matters evolve, the impacts of natural and man-made problems arising from the coronavirus (COVID-19) are being felt by customers,...more

Goulston & Storrs PC

Coronavirus: Impact on the Retail Industry

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Coronavirus Disease 2019 or “COVID-19” continues to dominate national and international discussion. News outlets in Boston, New York, London, Mumbai, Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo, and every other city and town in the world continue...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Coronavirus/COVID-19: Considerations for the Hospitality Industry

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COVID-2019 is a new strain of coronavirus that emerged in central China at the end of 2019 and continues to spread around the globe. The COVID-2019 outbreak has been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO)...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Coronavirus and Contractual Performance Disputes - Does a Pandemic Excuse Performance of Contractual Obligations?

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The daily headlines are reminders of the far-reaching economic ripple effects of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. The pandemic is forcing companies to abruptly alter strategies and business plans that seemed...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Coronavirus: Considerations for an Emergency Supply-Chain Response Plan

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We are in "unchartered territory" with the coronavirus, or COVID-19, according to the the World Health Organization's Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. The virus has been documented in more than 70 countries and...more

Bennett Jones LLP

Force Majeure Clauses and Risk Management in the Face of COVID-19

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The novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) was first reported from Wuhan, China, on December 31, 2019, and has been rapidly spreading since, with the outbreak now declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Managing the Commercial Impact of the Coronavirus: Food & Beverage

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...The coronavirus (provisionally named SARS-CoV-2, with its disease being named COVID-19) has been documented in six of the world’s seven continents (sparing only Antarctica), in more than 70 countries and territories. More...more

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Coronavirus – Does Force Majeure Apply?

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The coronavirus has disrupted the economy and business activity, making it difficult or challenging for some parties to honor their contractual obligations. In fact, it is apparent that parties are terminating their...more

Snell & Wilmer

Commercial Impact From the Coronavirus Outbreak – Review Force Majeure and Material Adverse Change Clauses, and Potential...

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Businesses across a wide range of industries are grappling with how to address the practical and legal concerns that have been created by the COVID-19/coronavirus outbreak. Businesses have started asking when and how they...more

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

Force Majeure: Can It Be Applicable in Case of Failure to Perform the Contract Due to the COVID-19 Outbreak?

For more than a month, China has been suffering from the COVID-19 outbreak, leading to strict containment measures and the standstill of many production plants of raw materials or parts. ...more

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