When a global crisis disrupts normality, a wave of litigation usually follows. This is even more acute in the Covid-19 pandemic, where businesses have faced economic distress and an unprecedented interruption to commerce alongside the need to adapt to Covid-safe ways of working.

Such seismic changes mean commercial relationships based on the ‘old normal’ are no longer sustainable, leading to disputes.

Below are three of the key areas of litigation risk for businesses that are the result of the pandemic and the steps management can take to avoid being drawn into litigation.

Contractual risks