… 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
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 (large & mid cap)
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
Russia adopted a series of counter measures in May. The President issued a decree establishing a special procedure for performance of obligations towards foreign intellectual property owners. The decree targets a range of IP owners establishing that the payments are to be made in roubles to a special account in an authorized Russian bank. The […]
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The promise to sell and the preference pact, two key instruments in M&A transactions, had made their entry into the Civil Code at the time of the 2016 reform. However, there were still some grey areas regarding the scope or effectiveness of certain provisions governing them, explains Ali Baydoun, counsel.
Paris | M&A AND CORPORATE LAW
Catherine Saint Geniest describes recent case law on commercial leases, particularly in the face of the health crisis. She notes that two years after the outbreak of the covid-19 crisis, the case law is still not fixed.
Paris | REAL ESTATE
In a decision rendered on April 8, 2022, the Conseil d’Etat accepted the admissibility of an appeal for misuse of power against an answer published by the CNIL, in a FAQ, which the latter had itself prepared and published on its website, in line with its policy of extending the justiciability of acts and flexible […]
Paris | PUBLIC LAW – PUBLIC CONTRACTS
Equity financings by French start-ups and scale ups have reached record levels in the past few years, both in volume and value. We thought that it would be interesting to review the publicly available corporate documents on a selection of the most successful amongst them, to see what lessons we could learn objectively about “what’s […]
Paris | CORPORATE – M&A – PRIVATE EQUITY
Thierry Lauriol, Partner, and Joséphine Hage Chahine, Associate (Arbitration, Energy and Mining Department) explain arbitration as a method of dispute settlement by which the mission of deciding the dispute is entrusted by the parties to one or several persons called “arbitrators” and on its financing.
Paris | LITIGATION – ARBITRATION – MEDIATION
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 […]
Paris | ENVIRONMENT | RENEWABLE ENERGY – RE
Going back over the “hectic saga” of the end of framework agreements without a maximum, Anthony Bron calls on buyers to be pragmatic, but also to be vigilant: “buyers will have to scrupulously monitor the progress of the execution of the contract, so that the volume of activity entrusted to the co-contractor is not exceeded”.05
Paris | PUBLIC LAW – PUBLIC CONTRACTS
Legal column by our partner Frank Martin-Laprade.
Paris | STOCK MARKET LITIGATION | CAPITAL MARKETS AND STOCK EXCHANGE LAW