Publications
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.
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
Recognition or Enforcement and Annulment of Arbitral Awards in France: An Analysis of the Kluwer Research Results – Journal of International Arbitration, 06/01/2022
The results of the Kluwer Research showed that, despite Paris being one of the most popular arbitration seats, French courts were the least likely to recognize and enforce an arbitral award, but also those with the highest number of vacated arbitral awards. The article analyses these results and offers some possible justifications for them.
Paris | COMMERCIAL AND INVESTMENT ARBITRATION | MEDIATION
The greening of State aid: the new guidelines on State aid for climate, environmental protection and energy – Energy – The greening of State aid: the new guidelines on State aid for climate, environmental protection and energy – Énergie – Environnement – Infrastructures, 01/06/2022
After a prior consultation phase and an impact assessment, new guidelines on state aid for climate, environmental protection and energy were adopted by the European Commission on January 27, 2022. These new public support rules focused on climate action and ecological transition represent a paradigm shift and prioritize the decarbonization of the economy.
Paris | RENEWABLE ENERGY – RE | ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES LAW
Case study Investing in real estate in France and abroad – L’ Agefi actifs, 24/06/2022
Our partner Jacques-Henry de Bourmont, who specializes in tax law, uses different cases to decipher good practices in real estate investment. Good strategies have a limited life span.
Paris | REAL ESTATE TAXATION
The French Court of Cassation’s Perspective Over Consequences of Respondent’s Refusal to Pay its Share of the Advance on Costs under ICC Arbitration Rules – Romanian Arbitration Journal, 01/04/2022
On 9 February 2022, the French Court of Cassation overturned the decision of the Pau Court of Appeal, which upheld Respondent’s objection to the jurisdiction of the French courts, in favour of the ICC…
Budapest, Paris
Biobased products have a place in the life cycle analysis and in the RE2020 – Le Moniteur, 24/06/2022
Pour le Conseil d’Etat (CE, 29 mars 2022, n° 457143), la primeur donnée en pratique à certains matériaux dans le neuf ne soulève pas de problème de constitutionnalité.
Paris | REAL ESTATE | ENVIRONMENT
Excessive arbitration claims filed by an impecunious claimant: which remedies? – la semaine juridique générale,, 06/06/2022
Check Thierry Lauriol’s and Joséphine Hage Chahine’s latest article thereon published in La Semaine Juridique Générale on 6 June 2022 Read the article
In the silence of the statutes, the director of SAS is revocable as nutum…-Option finance, 30/05/2022
… this is at least what the Commercial Chamber of the Court of Cassation concluded in its decision of March 9, 2022. Find in pdf the commentary of Guillaume Fornier, counsel, published in Option Finance on May 30, 2022 .
Paris | CORPORATE LAW AND GOVERNANCE
Mergers And Acquisitions Due Diligence Questionnaire – France – ABA, Seconde Edition, 2022
Designed as a go-to resource for cross-border M&A practitioners, this second edition provides lawyers with a meaningful head start in the due diligence process by compiling responses from leading local firms in the 20 top economies in the world other than the U.S.
Paris | MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
The takeover of April pushes the AMF to clarify the notion of action in concert – L’Agefi Quotidien, 07/06/2022. Quote from Frank Martin-Laprade
Is there concerted action when several companies of the same group make share purchases during an offer period? Last Friday, the AMF’s Enforcement Committee examined the share purchases of several structures of the Burrus group during CVC’s takeover bid for the insurer April in July 2019. Bruno de Roulhac reacts for Agefi to the plea […]
Paris | BANK-FINANCE-REGULATORY | STOCK MARKET LITIGATION