The UBA International Law Committee invites you to join the event on the topic «Overcoming force majeure, hardship, impossibility: How lawyers can help keep their client’s contracts on foot and deal with obstacles to performance».

In this online session, we will discuss ways to keep the contract on foot and business rolling in challenging times, including but not limited to:

  • Determining whether there are grounds to suspend performance of a contract, with a focus on:

 • Hardship and force majeure clauses in the contract,

 • Mandatory rules of the applicable law, and

 • Sanctions and export control restrictions.

 • Negotiation strategies

 • In the absence of legal ways to suspend performance, how to talk to the counterparty to minimize the costs for all involved.

 • The SCC’s recent experience of cases involving allegations of force majeure, etc.

Speakers:

Yulia Atamanova, Partner LCF Law Group (in Ukrainian)

Jake Lowther, Legal Counsel at SCC Arbitration Institute.

Olga Kuchmiienko, PhD, Attorney-at-law, Head of the International Law Committee of Ukrainian Bar Association.

Date & Time: 31 January 2024 18.00 Kyiv time

Event format: online (Zoom) 

We look forward to seeing you there (assuming no situation of force majeure, hardship, or impossibility)!

You can make a charitable contribution and support the activities of the Ukrainian Bar Association at the following link.

For all questions regarding the event and the possibility to partner, please contact the Secretariat of the Ukrainian Bar Association by phone at +380664953014 or write to komitet@uba.ua. Contact person – Viktoriia Motia.