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VIDEO · 17 JUNE 2025

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International Rescue – What You Can Do If Global Supply Chains Break Down (Video)

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We know that issues are consistently arising in global supply chains. Macroeconomic and geopolitical shocks, and rapid changes associated with the green transition and technological advances...

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Tom Cox
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Sophia Allouache
Nils Kupka
Nils Kupka
Thomas Yates
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Tom Cox: My name is Tom Cox, I am a Partner in the Dispute Resolution Group at Gowling and I am delighted in conjunction with Quadrant Chambers to welcome you to this event which we are putting on as part of London International Disputes week. I know a number of you are here for the week and I hope you are having a great time and being warmly welcomed into our city. This session, as you will be aware, is on global supply chain disputes, how they might be resolved, how they might be avoided altogether, we are going to be digging into some of those topics and I am delighted to have a fantastic panel alongside me actually a truly global panel as will become apparent in a moment for a global topic but I am delighted to have them with me.

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