English Court Decides on Legal Nature of “Classic Performance Bond”

In Power Projects Sanayi Insaat Ticaret Ltd v. Star Assurance Co Ltd,[[1]] the English Commercial Court held that under what it considered a “classic performance bond” the issuer could not resist payment by pointing to underlying contractual disputes and could only rely on a fraud defence known at the time of demand.

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