A crash landing into crisis management: an aviation GC’s Covid story
For sectors such as aviation, hospitality and retail the COVID-19 pandemic hit hard and few could have anticipated the effects on business operations. For some, the pandemic meant restructuring the organisation and working from home until further notice whilst navigating the uncertainties of advising a business on a surge of new queries. For others, the pandemic resulted in almost total loss of business, with few customers and little revenue. Exacerbated by the disparities in governmental guidelines and the countries that are safe to visit, this presentation will talk you through the turbulent journey of a GC in the aviation sector, who dealt with advising a healthy business one day and managed the legal pitfalls of a global crisis the next. Watch this case study from an industry greatly impacted by the current pandemic, for which the “new normal” is far from what we know as “normal”.