Join JPMA Associate Member, Freeborn & Peters LLP, as they discuss how businesses throughout the globe that rely on or service supply chains are experiencing COVID-19’s disruptive impact. Contracts involving the sale of goods have been particularly affected. The altered marketplace should prompt juvenile products manufacturers to reconsider supply chain structures and how to manage future disruptions caused by global events.

Presenters

Jeremy Richardson

Jeremy Richardson is a Partner in Freeborn’s Litigation Practice Group and member of the Intellectual Property Practice Group. Jeremy works primarily with consumer product manufacturers and in particular the juvenile products industry. Clients leverage Jeremy’s vast expertise – including his fashion law background – and rely on him in times of opportunity and need.  Jeremy partners with clients to provide practical solutions on an array of matters that include trademark and copyright protection; intellectual property license agreements; minimum advertised price policies; terms and conditions of sale; and third party logistics and warehouse agreements; and contract disputes. He is also sought after by manufacturers of children’s goods to provide counsel on regulatory compliance matters.

John Shapiro

John Shapiro is a Partner in Freeborn’s Complex Litigation Practice Group and is Co-Leader of the Food Industry Team. He is also Chair of the Firm’s Pro Bono Committee and a member of the Firm’s Diversity & Inclusion Committee and its Professional Review Committee. John focuses his practice on solving clients' complex business disputes, counseling clients on litigation, employment and business issues, and providing general corporate advice and nonprofit corporation management.

Matthew O’Hara

Matthew O'Hara is a Partner in Freeborn’s Litigation Practice Group and Co-Leader of the Complex Litigation Group. Matt is a business trial lawyer who concentrates his practice in the litigation and trial of complex commercial matters in federal and state courts and the representation of law firms and lawyers. He has tried cases involving the federal securities laws, antitrust laws, breach of fiduciary duty, trade secrets, trademark infringement, breach of contract, contract reformation, unjust enrichment, license agreements, executive employment, the Uniform Commercial Code, fraud, and criminal defense.

Sergio Chayet

Sergio Chayet, professor at Washington University in St. Louis’s Olin Business School, is an expert in the field of supply chain management. He is the Director of the Master of Science in Supply Chain Management Program; Director of the Operations & Supply Chain Management MBA Platform; Senior Lecturer in Operations & Manufacturing Management. His research interests include customer-supplier relationships and strategic planning for production and service organizations.