{"id":21657,"date":"2020-05-22T09:12:42","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T09:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legal500.com\/events\/?page_id=21657"},"modified":"2021-10-19T11:32:42","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T11:32:42","slug":"a-commercial-litigators-guide-to-force-majeure-in-the-age-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/webinars-home\/a-commercial-litigators-guide-to-force-majeure-in-the-age-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"A commercial litigator&#8217;s guide to force majeure in the age of Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21615 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.legal500.com\/events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/Litigation-11-June.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/Litigation-11-June.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/Litigation-11-June-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/Litigation-11-June-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/Litigation-11-June-768x402.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Because of the unprecedented business disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, companies throughout the globe are seeking to modify or evade their commercial obligations. Force majeure is one legal tool that many businesses are asserting in an effort to accomplish these objectives. So are frustration of purpose, impossibility of performance, material adverse change or effect, and factum principis. In addition, some governments have enacted legislation to help businesses evade or modify their commercial obligations. In this interactive webinar a panel of legal experts from multiple jurisdictions will discuss whether and to what extent these tools can be effectively employed in the international commercial litigation arena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because of the unprecedented business disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, companies throughout the globe are seeking to modify or evade their commercial obligations. Force majeure is one legal tool that many businesses are asserting in an effort to accomplish these objectives. So are frustration of purpose, impossibility of performance, material adverse change or effect, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/webinars-home\/a-commercial-litigators-guide-to-force-majeure-in-the-age-of-covid-19\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A commercial litigator&#8217;s guide to force majeure in the age of Covid-19&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":21615,"parent":20789,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21657","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29078,"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21657\/revisions\/29078"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}