Geopolitics and Boilerplates: Lessons from a Hypothetical Strait of Hormuz Joint Venture
In Geopolitics and Boilerplates: Lessons from a Hypothetical Strait of Hormuz Joint Venture, Lester Ho, Jessica Cheung and Beatrice Low takes President Trump’s proposed hypothetical joint venture (“JV”) between the United States and Iran over the Strait of Hormuz as an entertaining and educational legal thought experiment to draw out structuring lessons for commercial JVs.
They show how the perfect storm of adverse conditions in this hypothetical JV mirrors the conceptual complexities found in many ordinary commercial JVs. The analysis focuses on three issues that would matter most in many legal JV frameworks:
- Unambiguous division of responsibilities tailored to each party’s capabilities, with clear reporting duties and objective performance standards;
- A governance structure that separates day-to-day operational decisions from reserved matters, with reserved matters acting as checks where one party has greater control; and
- Deadlock and dispute resolution mechanisms designed to prioritise de-escalation through layered escalation coupled with standstill obligations.
Stripped of its unusual geopolitical context, the hypothetical Strait of Hormuz JV reinforces familiar and practical lessons for structuring robust commercial JVs.
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