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Corporate,
Contracts

Mar. 19, 2020

Surviving a pandemic: Dust off the force majeure clause

A global outbreak of COVID-19 or the novel coronavirus has hit the United States and is wreaking even greater havoc on many of its international trade partners. The health crisis has caused widespread disruption of brick and mortar business activity, event cancellations and stock market plunges.

Alyssa Shauer

Associate
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

Email: ashauer@sheppardmullin.com

UCLA SOL; Los Angeles CA

Whitney Roy

Partner
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter and Hampton LLP

A global outbreak of COVID-19 or the novel coronavirus has hit the United States and is wreaking even greater havoc on many of its international trade partners. The health crisis has caused widespread disruption of brick and mortar business activity, event cancellations and stock market plunges.

As a result of the health crisis, organizations of all types are incurring sudden economic loss. Like the virus itself, the resiliency of u...

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