Learn what warranties are and how warranty clauses are used in commercial agreements, mergers and acquisitions, and consumer contracts. The links below lead to third-party websites where these articles are published.
Warranties in commercial and consumer agreements:
- Commercial and Consumer Warranties: A Primer, by Richard H. Casper, Kathleen E. Wegrzyn, of Foley & Lardner LLP (2019)
- Fit for What Purpose? Understanding the Warranty of Fitness for Particular Purpose, by Nicholas J. Ellis, of Foley & Lardner LLP (2018)
- Don’t Be Inconspicuous: Disclaiming the Implied Warranty of Merchantability, by Foley & Lardner LLP (2017)
- Be Wary of Warranties for Software Design, by Jones Day (2018)
- What is a Warranty?, by Patrick Ivy, Newburn Law, P.C. (2021)
Warranties in corporate acquisitions:
- Litigation Minute: Representations and Warranties in Mergers & Acquisitions: Safety Net or Snare?, by Jennifer H. Thiem, Savannah G. Darnall, of K&L Gates (2021)
- Buying a Business: The Role of Warranties and Indemnities in Protecting a Buyer, by Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP (2023)
- US/UK M&A: Warranties, by Lewis Silkin (2021)
- To be on the hook, or walk away in M&A: that is the question, by Hugo-Pierre Gagnon, Sebastien Duckett, of Osler (2023)
- Representations and warranties in a share purchase agreement - basics of the procedure and outline of the market practice, by Norton Rose Fulbright (2022)
- OSS Representations and Warranties in M&A and Financings, by Rahul Kapoor and Shokoh H. Yaghoubi, of Morgan Lewis (2023)
- Know Your Terminology: Nuances of Cross-border M&A, United States, by Andrew J. Warmus, McDermott Will & Emery (2023)
- Representation and Warranty Insurance, by Perkins Coie
- Representation and Warranty Insurance: Navigating the Claims Process, by Brown Rudnick LLP (2019)
- What Representations & Warranties Insurance Can Do for Your M&A Deals in Latin America, by Selene Espinosa, B. Jeffery Bell, Enrique A. Conde, and Aaron T. Slavens, of Holland & Knight LLP (2023)
This page was initially published September 27, 2023, and edited September 28, 2023.
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