Publications
The adoption of a regulatory framework for hydrogen – Destination climat, 04/01/2022
In the first issue of Destination Climat, Adrien Fourmon discusses the challenges of the new regulatory framework for hydrogen.
“The hydrogen market is in the process of defining its legal framework, while many local authorities are planning to set up hydrogen production and distribution infrastructures on their territory. Following European advances, France is progressively adopting legislative and regulatory texts that testify to the nascent enthusiasm for this activity. However, we must not reproduce the mistakes of the past, which have affected the development of renewable energies in other sectors.”
Global Legal Insights – Energy 2023, Chapter France, 2023
Overview of the current energy mix, and the place in the market of different energy sources. The French government is facing crucial decisions about its future energy mix due to climate change and the war in Ukraine. France benefits shistorically from decarbonised electricity based on nuclear power, but is now accelerating to set up and […]
Paris | ENERGY
Commercial rent indexation: quicksand! – Business Immo, november 2022
Après une actualité jurisprudentielle fournie au cours des dernières années sur la validité des clauses d’échelle mobile limitant la variation indiciaire du loyer du bail commercial, c’est au tour du gouvernement et du législateur d’intervenir successivement pour contraindre l’indice des loyers commerciaux (ILC). Ainsi, par deux mesures à quelques mois d’intervalle, l’évolution indiciaire des loyers […]
Paris | REAL ESTATE
PSD2: the new contours of the concepts of “limit network of acceptors” and “limit range of goods and services – Option finance, 10/31/2022
On July 20, 2022, the ACPR declared itself partially compliant with the European Banking Authority (EBA) Guidelines on the exclusion of “limited networks” under PSD2 published on February 24, 2022 (EBA/GL/2022/02). What about in practice? Read the legal analysis and the answers of Delphine Baudouin, Counsel in Jeantet’s Banking and Finance Department, for Option Finance, […]
Paris | BANK-FINANCE-REGULATORY
What’s the point of the AMF’s new warning against financing prized by French start-ups? – Finascope, 11/08/2022
Legal column by our partner Frank Martin-Laprade. Le 13 octobre 2022, et pour la troisième fois en deux ans, l’AMF a publié une mise en garde à l’encontre de certains types de « financements dilutifs » qu’elle désigne désormais par la formule globale « d’OCABSA ou d’equity lines », alors qu’il s’agit potentiellement de deux choses différentes, comme elle semblait d’ailleurs l’avoir initialement bien compris, puisque son premier communiqué […]
Paris | BANK-FINANCE-REGULATORY
M&A in France: FDI Screening
The French Ministry of the Economy has recently published, for the first time, guidelines regarding the procedures for the screening of foreign direct investments in France. Stephen Walters, Partner (Jeantet) and Victoria Régis, Counsel (Jeantet) have authored an overview of the French FDI screening regime which discusses some of the key points to emerge from […]
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Transposition of the European Insolvency Directive: A rebalancing between companies in difficulty and their creditors- La Jaune & La Rouge, October 2022
Laïd Estelle Laurent and Bertrand Biette, partners, review the legislative changes brought about by the transposition of the European Insolvency Directive into French law. In particular, they tell us more about the more important place given to creditors in the elaboration and negotiation of recovery and turnaround plans. Meeting.
Paris | RESTRUCTURING – LAW OF COMPANIES IN DIFFICULTY
Chronicle: One year of case law on renewable energy – Energie-Environnement-Infrastructures, 10/01/2022
This article presents, in a non-exhaustive manner, the most significant decisions on renewable energy from September 2021 to August 2022 – specifically on wind power and photovoltaic energy, and to a lesser extent on hydroelectric power and methanization. The year 2021 and the beginning of 2022 have been marked by a substantial number of decisions […]
Paris | RENEWABLE ENERGY – RE
A great opportunity for the new president of the AMF ? – Option Finance, 09/19/2022
Will the future chairman of the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) be able to seize the opportunity provided by a new mandate at the head of the stock market regulator to (finally) turn the page on the former Commission des opérations de bourse (COB) and bring himself up to speed – in Europe – with […]
Paris | BANK-FINANCE-REGULATORY
France: Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters – Legal 500, september 2022
This country-specific Q&A provides an overview of Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters laws and regulations applicable in France.
Paris | LITIGATION – ARBITRATION – MEDIATION
Elliott case: a final lap for obstruction – Bulletin Joly Bourse, 07/01/2022
Martine Samuelian, Partner, and Olivier Lyon Lynch, Counsel, analyze the Court of Appeal’s decision for Bulletin Joly Bourse.
Paris | BANKING AND FINANCIAL REGULATION
When a former regulatory requirement becomes a simple recommendation -Finascope, 07/19/2022
Legal column by Frank Martin-Laprade, partner.
Paris | LISTED COMPANIES AND CAPITAL MARKETS LAW
Commercial leases – June 30, 2022: a halt to covid rents? – Semaine Juridique Générale, 07/11/2022
Arnaud Colin, Counsel, looks back at the long-awaited judgments of the Court of Cassation of 30 June 2022 on Covid rents.
Paris | REAL ESTATE