A livecast on Force Majeure in Commercial Contracts during
COVID-19, organized by International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), was
held on Friday, 10 April 2020. In this free Livecast that thousands
of people attended from all over the world, Prof. Dr. H.
Ercüment Erdem, Founder & Senior Partner of Erdem &
Erdem and Chair of the ICC Commercial Law & Practice
Commission; Abhinav Bhushan, Director, South Asia, ICC Arbitration
and ADR; and Angelika Zoder, Expert in International Contract Law,
ICC Austria, discussed common features of force majeure clauses, as
well as ICC's revised Force Majeure Clauses for 2020.
During the livecast, the speakers focused on how force majeure
clauses can be interpreted and implemented to reflect the current
environment and they discussed whether COVID 19 will trigger force
majeure, or not. Moreover they explained contentious situations
regarding force majeure clauses in contracts, and what parties can
do if there is no force majeure clause.
