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When COVID-19 infects finance contracts: frustration, force majeure and illegality
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COVID-19 will often cause borrowers to breach their loan-to-value covenants or payment or other obligations. Certain risks making performance impossible or more burdensome will be provided for in the express terms, but something as specific as a pandemic such as COVID-19 will not. The borrower will naturally look for legal routes to suspend or otherwise evade its ongoing payment obligations. This article considers that situation.
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