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Commitments and Contingencies
9 Months Ended
Mar. 27, 2021
Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]  
Commitments and Contingencies COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
Letters of Credit
The Company had standby letters of credit, surety bonds and bank guarantees totaling $42.0 million and $33.3 million outstanding at March 27, 2021 and June 27, 2020, respectively. The agreements, which expire at various dates through calendar 2025, primarily collateralize the Company's obligation to third parties for duty, leases, insurance claims and materials used in product manufacturing. The Company pays certain fees with respect to these instruments that are issued.
Other
The Company had other contractual cash obligations as of March 27, 2021 related to debt repayments. Refer to Note 12, "Debt," for further information.
The Company is involved in various routine legal proceedings as both plaintiff and defendant incident to the ordinary course of its business, including proceedings to protect Tapestry's intellectual property rights, litigation instituted by persons alleged to have been injured by advertising claims or upon premises within the Company’s control, litigation involving contractual disputes and litigation with present or former employees.
As part of Tapestry Inc.’s policing program for its intellectual property rights, from time to time, the Company files lawsuits in the U.S. and abroad alleging acts of trademark counterfeiting, trademark infringement, patent infringement, trade dress infringement, copyright infringement, unfair competition, trademark dilution and/or state or foreign law claims. At any given point in time, Tapestry may have a number of such actions pending. These actions often result in seizure of counterfeit merchandise and/or out of court settlements with defendants. From time to time, defendants will raise, either as affirmative defenses or as counterclaims, the invalidity or unenforceability of certain of Tapestry’s intellectual properties.
Although the Company’s litigation as a defendant is routine and incidental to the conduct of Tapestry’s business, as well as for any business of its size, such litigation can result in large monetary awards, such as when a civil jury is allowed to determine compensatory and/or punitive damages.
The Company believes that the outcome of all such pending routine legal proceedings in the aggregate will not have a material effect on the Company's business or condensed consolidated financial statements.
In addition to such routine legal proceedings, a putative class action complaint was filed in the Delaware Court of Chancery on May 7, 2020, naming the former chief executive officer and director of Kate Spade & Company and the other former directors of Kate Spade & Company, which the Company acquired on July 11, 2017 (the “Acquisition”), as defendants, and captioned Butler v. Leavitt, et al., C.A. No. 2020-0343-JTL. The complaint asserted claims on behalf of former Kate Spade & Company shareholders alleging breaches of fiduciary duty in connection with the Acquisition, including with respect to the defendants’ decision to pursue the Acquisition and Kate Spade & Company’s disclosures to stockholders in connection with the Acquisition. Under the terms of the agreement pursuant to which the Company acquired Kate Spade & Company, the Company was required to indemnify the defendants under this claim. The Company filed a motion to dismiss the complaint with prejudice, which was granted by the Delaware Court of Chancery on February 9, 2021. The matter, which has been concluded, did not have a material effect on the Company’s business or condensed consolidated financial statements.