By Franck BEAUDOIN, Lawyer
30 April 2025
Crises and geopolitical risks affect not only international contracts, but also domestic ones.
This legal briefing will help you understand the stakes, analyse key contractual clauses, and acquire the right legal reflexes to deal with global tensions.
Webinar programme
🎯 Learning objectives
In a context of growing instability in international relations, this legal briefing offers a clear and structured view of the contractual consequences, helping you to:
- Understand the current trade war
- Map other geopolitical risks
- Identify high-risk or high-leverage clauses
- Begin reviewing your existing and future contracts
📚 Content
Current developments in the trade war
- Legal analysis of recent events
- Discussion: Is the trade war launched in April 2025 by the US government lawful under US federal law and international law?
- Could the legal action initiated by twelve US states, including New York, bring an end to the conflict?
Overview of the legal framework for international trade
- World Trade Organization (WTO)
- Free trade agreements
Mapping geopolitical risks
- Trade war, tariff and non-tariff barriers, customs duties, sudden price hikes
- Anti-dumping measures, export/import restrictions
- Embargoes, international sanctions
- Extraterritorial regulation / extraterritorial enforcement
- Health crises, war, terrorism
Direct and indirect impacts on contracts
- International and domestic contracts
- Ripple effects of global tensions: price hikes, delays, delivery disruptions
- Sensitive or strategic clauses
- Force majeure, hardship, frustration of purpose
⚠️ The actual effect of the clauses – and the default rules in their absence – depends on the applicable law. The full training includes a comparative law approach.
Key strategies and legal reflexes
- Contract audit: review current agreements
- Quality control: update contract templates
- Anticipation, negotiation, communication with partners, clients and suppliers
- Beyond contracts: impact on business relationships (termination of established business relationships)
🌍 Language
This webinar is available in English or French: an ideal opportunity to strengthen your legal and commercial terminology in the language of your choice. 👉 View the webinar in French
🧩 Format and teaching methods
- Format: Interactive online session and replay
- Duration: 1 hour
- Presentation: 45 minutes, including Q&A
- Discussion and experience sharing: 15 minutes
- Teaching methods: Structured lecture with real-life examples, quizzes, simplified case studies, and clause commentary
- Interactivity: Participant questions, feedback, and debate
- Materials: Slides with legal design elements, summary available in HTML or PDF
- Price: €80 excluding VAT per participant (€96 including French VAT, if applicable)
- Participants: Unlimited
- Certificate of attendance available upon request
👥 Target audience
Executives, managers, entrepreneurs, legal professionals, lawyers, and consultants working with contracts directly or indirectly exposed to international tensions.
No legal background is required.
📅 Next live sessions
Thursday 5 June 2025, 11:00–12:00 (French)– Fully booked! Registration for this session is now closed.Thursday 5 June 2025, 17:00–18:00 (English)– Fully booked! Registration for this session is now closed.- Tuesday 1 July 2025, 11:00–12:00 (French)
- Tuesday 1 July 2025, 17:00–18:00 (English)
✨ Can’t attend?
All registered participants will receive access to the replay.
Additional time slots may be scheduled based on demand.
Feel free to contact us to let us know your preferences.
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✉️ Have a question or special request?
🎯 This legal briefing provides a structured and interactive overview of contractual challenges arising from international tensions. You’ll identify high-risk clauses, relevant legal levers, and the initial steps to take.
🔍 To go further, a full training course is also available. It includes in-depth contract analysis, practical exercises, model updates, and a tailored legal strategy.
🌍 [FR] Our training programmes in French are on droit.co – view this page in French here.
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