AFRICA INSIGHT SERIES: PART 1 | CONTRACTUAL AND LEGAL PROVISIONS RELEVANT TO COVID-19 

Webcast

Shearman & Sterling hosted  a series of live webinars, focusing on Africa, where our multidisciplinary team of lawyers explored the future challenges, opportunities and risks facing those doing business across the African continent.

Part 1 of the series focused on:

• How force majeure works under an English law governed contract and the civil law equivalent
• Other contractual provisions and legal concepts under English law and civil law that should be considered in light of COVID-19
• What steps you should be taking if performance under a contract is prevented by COVID-19 
• Whether COVID-19 is an insurable event 
• The consequences we are likely to see arising under contracts due to COVID-19

Speakers: Lachlan Clancy, Paul Eardley-Taylor (Standard Bank), Elitsa Georgieva (CITAC)