To help clients navigate these new challenges and help companies plan for reopening, Kelley Drye offers a team of legal advisers across practices and geographies. Our firm has a 180-year history of helping clients through their most significant crises by offering sound and practical legal, commercial, and government relations advice. In this uncertain environment, we are partnering with clients to offer support and provide you with guidance to help you to understand and respond to the challenges related to COVID-19, including:
 

• Legal exposure due to business interruptions and unsatisfied contracts, including counsel on contractual obligations, especially for significant business concerns


• Supply chain disruptions that are impacting the manufacture of consumer goods forcing manufacturers to seek alternative product sources that meet U.S. consumer regulations


• All types of employment issues, including how to communicate to your employees, managing affected employees, remote work policies, privacy of record and employee travel, among other pressing issues


• Evaluating disruptions to trading and markets, M&A/corporate transactions, commercial contracts, corporate governance (contingency planning for annual meetings) and disclosures for publicly traded companies


• Monitoring the federal government’s efforts to address these issues, as well as emerging issues that businesses may face

To stay informed, visit our Kelley Drye COVID-19 Response Resource Center. Also, to receive Kelley Drye’s updates on COVID-19 legal issues, sign up here.