Client — a company belonging to an international industrial group.

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Matter — representation of the client in a commercial dispute concerning theperformance of obligations in kind and the recovery of penalties under anagricultural machinery supply agreement.

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Role — the team provided: analysis of the supply agreement and technicaldocumentation; determination of the procedure for the performance ofobligations by the parties; assessment of the lawfulness of charging penalties;preparation of procedural documents; representation and defense of the clientagainst disproportionate financial claims of the counterparty in all threeinstances.

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Jurisdiction — Ukraine.

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Courts — courts of all instances.

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Practice — Dispute Resolution |

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Status — the case was considered by the appellate court.

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Significance — the case required preliminary preparatory work, correlation betweenthe principal obligation and penalties, as well as the application of the"force majeure" concept and the actual possibility of performing thecontract in kind.