The global pandemic caused by the coronavirus has forced governments to adopt a series of extraordinary measures to manage the serious health crisis that countries are facing. These measures have generally consisted of confining the population to try to reduce the rate of infections and not collapse the health infrastructure, as well as drastically restricting all those activities considered non-essential.

We are witnessing an unprecedented situation whose social, economic and legal consequences will be with us for a long time.

The strong contraction of demand forced by the circumstances is seriously affecting the ability of many companies to comply with their obligations, placing them before the impossibility of continuing to respect their contracts or the need to modify them or suspend their execution temporarily, while maintaining the exceptional situation that we live.

Both the governing bodies of the judiciary and law firms are preparing for the avalanche of lawsuits related to contracts affected by the measures adopted as a result of the health emergency that are announced on the horizon.