By Diane Dix – General Counsel, Total Safety, Marc Michael – Chief Counsel, Global Dispute Resolution, AES Corp, Tim Williams – Senior Counsel, Dispute Management, Wärtsilä Corporation, Susan Dunn – Founder and CEO, Harbour Litigation Finance, Tamer Nassar – Managing Director, Eternal Energy, Derrick Dale QC – Fountain Court Chambers
A crisis like Covid-19 has presented a highly unusual set of challenges for global business. Whilst, for any business, ensuring the immediate health and safety of its workforce is paramount, a coordinated and considered crisis response strategy is also essential. Any such response strategy should include the in house legal function to mitigate litigation risk, assist in managing the dialogue with counterparties in business-critical contracts and to horizon-scan for legal and compliance risk which may develop from the crisis.
In this article, London-based Winston & Strawn litigation partner, Ben Bruton, speaks to 4 senior in house leaders, a leading Queen’s Counsel and the founder of a prominent third party funder to draw on their experience of managing their teams through previous crises and to share their perspectives on the…
