{"id":529,"date":"2020-04-30T17:08:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T21:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/?p=529"},"modified":"2020-04-30T17:08:58","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T21:08:58","slug":"force-majeure-events-and-e-signatures-covid-19-guidance-for-businesses-in-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/04\/30\/force-majeure-events-and-e-signatures-covid-19-guidance-for-businesses-in-vietnam\/","title":{"rendered":"Force Majeure Events and E-signatures: COVID-19 Guidance for Businesses in Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The COVID-19 pandemic has given rise to many questions regarding force majeure and e-signatures. In particular, parties to commercial contracts are keen to know (i) whether they can be released from liabilities by relying on a force majeure clause and (ii) whether they can execute contracts by electronic signatures instead of the traditional \u201cwet ink\u201d signatures, which have become almost impossible in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full text of this post by Duane Morris Vietnam partner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/gilestcooper.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Giles Cooper<\/a>, please <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/vietnam\/2020\/04\/30\/covid-19-guidance-for-businesses-in-vietnam-force-majeure-events-and-e-signatures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit the <em>Duane Morris Vietnam Blog<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The COVID-19 pandemic has given rise to many questions regarding force majeure and e-signatures. In particular, parties to commercial contracts are keen to know (i) whether they can be released from liabilities by relying on a force majeure clause and (ii) whether they can execute contracts by electronic signatures instead of the traditional \u201cwet ink\u201d &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/04\/30\/force-majeure-events-and-e-signatures-covid-19-guidance-for-businesses-in-vietnam\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Force Majeure Events and E-signatures: COVID-19 Guidance for Businesses in Vietnam&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[148,7,126],"ppma_author":[1043],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-e-signatures","tag-force-majeure","tag-vietnam"],"authors":[{"term_id":1043,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}