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Parametric Insurance: The Future-Proof Solution for Enterprise Risk

In today’s fast-paced and increasingly unpredictable global environment, large enterprises face mounting risks—natural catastrophes, climate-related disruptions, supply chain breakdowns and emerging digital threats....more

Proskauer Rose LLP

Market Turmoil: Proven Strategies for Managing Private Credit Portfolios Through Volatility

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As during the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, private credit lenders today face the challenge of adapting to rapidly shifting circumstances driven by a volatile macroeconomic landscape. If past is at all...more

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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

Husch Blackwell LLP

Captive Insurer Update: Contingent Business Interruption Claims, Reinsurance, and the Southern California Wildfires

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Captive insurers can offer enhanced control over coverage, claims, and premiums; however, they also face specific challenges when dealing with large-scale coverage events that have highly uncertain scopes, particularly when...more

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What About Your Suppliers? Insuring Against Climate Risks to Your Supply Chain

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More than 20 storms—11 of which will become hurricanes, and 5 of which will become Category 3 or greater hurricanes. That's one prediction for the Atlantic hurricane season. Not to worry, you say. Your operations are located...more

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What to Do if Your Suppliers Are in Distress - Candid Conversations with Suppliers in Distress

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Williams Mullen’s What to Do if Your Suppliers Are in Distress video series describes how to identify your critical suppliers that might be in jeopardy, provides suggestions on how you can help them, and shares how you can...more

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What to Do if Your Suppliers Are in Distress - Identifying Suppliers in Distress

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Williams Mullen’s What to Do if Your Suppliers Are in Distress video series describes how to identify your critical suppliers that might be in jeopardy, provides suggestions on how you can help them, and shares how you can...more

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How to Create a Lean - Yet Secure - Supply Chain in Today’s Uncertain World

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A recent survey found that 87% of supply chain professionals plan to invest in resilience in the near future, which is no surprise given the amount of global events which have shocked supply chains recently. Political...more

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[Webinar] New Contracts: Pandemic Impact on Contract and Transaction Due Diligence - October 27th, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm ET

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During times of economic turbulence and commercial uncertainty, your business team and corporate counsel are well advised to undertake a more deliberate and thorough due diligence process when entering into contract and...more

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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

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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

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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 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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Coronavirus and cracks in your armor: Recognizing impending financial stressors spawned by a health pandemic

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One by one, at devastating speed, communities across the globe are facing the effects of Covid-19. With more than 115,000 reported cases to date, we are no longer awaiting a new reality; we have met it head on....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

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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

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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

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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

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Coronavirus Questions? California Administrative Agencies Have Answers!

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Seyfarth Synopsis: The Department of Labor Standards and Enforcement, the Employment Development Department, and CalOSHA now have FAQs addressing how the COVID-19. coronavirus affects California businesses....more

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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

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An Unintended Interruption to the Global Supply Chain

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The current outbreak of COVID-19 (the coronoavirus) will be a test of the global supply chain’s strength in the face of unintended interruptions, and can be a lesson on building-in supply-chain contingency plans.  As a result...more

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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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