Commercial Leases—First Semester 2024 Case Laws Digest

Commercial lease law is constantly evolving, with court rulings providing particularly interesting insights into the negotiation and management of commercial leases.

Our selection of some of the High Court's major decisions relating to commercial leases for the first half of 2024 provides an opportunity to take stock of the latest developments in commercial leases.

The decisions handed down on the classic themes of commercial lease formation, amendments, and termination are full of useful information for updating the knowledge of our investor, manager, owner, and user clients' teams.

First semester focuses on eminently practical subjects such as:

• A notice of termination with an offer to renew on different terms from the expired lease (excluding rent) is equivalent to a notice to quit with refusal to renew, entitling the lessee to eviction compensation (Cass. 3rd civ., 11 January 2024, no. 22-20.872);