Flash Info : the French High Committee for Corporate Governance has published its eighth annual report, 22/11/2021

The High Committee for Corporate Governance (“HCGE”) published on 10 November 2021 its eighth annual report (the “Report”). The mission of the HCGE is to monitor compliance with the principal French Corporate Governance Code, the Afep-Medef Code of Corporate Governance for Listed Companies (the “Code”), by those companies whose shares are listed on a regulated […]

Paris | CORPORATE LAW AND GOVERNANCE

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The fight against artificialisation will require planning – Le Moniteur, 22/10/2021

Urban planning – The Climate and Resilience Act leaves little time for local authorities to meet the ZAN target. In line with the proposals of the Citizens’ Climate Convention and in order to anchor ecology in our society, Law 2021-1104 of 22 August 2021, known as the “Climate and Resilience” law, modifies numerous provisions of […]

Paris | PUBLIC LAW – PUBLIC CONTRACTS | ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES LAW | RENEWABLE ENERGY – RE

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Clause de non-concurrence et contrepartie financière : quelques précisions complémentaires par la chambre commerciale de la Cour de cassation – Option Finance, 15/10/2021

In a decision of 23 June 2021, the Commercial Chamber of the Court of Cassation, confirming its previous position, reaffirmed the validity of a non-competition clause without financial consideration, when the obliged party is not an employee of the creditor company.

Paris | CORPORATE LAW AND GOVERNANCE

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Jeantet advises Inventory Planner on its sale to the Brightpearl Group

Paris, September 22, 2021, Jeantet advised Inventory Planner, a leading e-commerce inventory management and forecasting company, and its shareholders on the sale of Inventory Planner to the Brightpearl group, enabling the latter to broaden its technological offering by integrating an inventory management software for e-commerce players. This is a first step in its longer-term strategy to make Brightpearl the market leader in […]

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Shouldn’t the legal personality of the AMF act as a shield? – Option Droit et Affaires, 03/09/2021

For several years now, the legal status of the AMF has been in question when it intervenes before the Paris Court of Appeal in appeals against its own individual decisions, pursuant to Article L. 621-30 of the Monetary and Financial Code, even though this optional intervention is expressly provided for in Article R. 621-46 of […]

Paris | FINANCIAL ENGINEERING | BANKING AND FINANCIAL REGULATION

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Ligue 1 stoppage in 2020, no compensation for the Olympique Lyonnais – Jurisportiva, 08/19/2021

The Covid-19 epidemic that we went through from March 2020 onwards, and which unfortunately is still ongoing, has not only had calamitous health consequences for the country, but also catastrophic collateral effects on the world of sport, both professional and amateur, and especially on the national football championships of League 1 and League 2, which […]

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LCB-FT : vers la création d’une autorité de supervision européenne ad hoc – Bulletin Joly Bourse, 01/09/2021

On 20 July 2021, the European Commission published a draft European regulation to create a new European authority, the Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AMLA). The AMLA will be responsible for combating money laundering and the financing of terrorism and will have supervisory and sanctioning powers and will ensure that […]

Paris | BANK-FINANCE-REGULATORY

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The Climate and Resilience Act prohibits the construction of new commercial premises that lead to the artificialisation of land – Le Monde du Droit, 08/30/2021

Opinion column by Adrien Fourmon, Counsel, Jeantet, on the climate law and its impact on the development of commercial surfaces. Following the Citizens’ Climate Convention, an unprecedented democratic exercise that allowed for direct consultation with more than a hundred citizens, the bill on combating climate change and strengthening resilience to its effects was presented to […]

Paris | RENEWABLE ENERGY – RE | ENERGY EFFICIENCY

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