In this article, Anker Sorensen, a partner of the Financial Industry Group of the Paris office of Reed Smith LLP, practicing predominantly in the area of corporate and restructuring, shortly describes and comments the main changes which have been introduced by the "Macron law" in the insolvency/corporate restructuring area

A Managing Director of a French Société Anonyme has a statutory duty of loyalty towards the shareholders of such company.

Guillaume Rudelle lawyer from our restructuring team is joined by his colleagues in Paris, Jean-Pascal Bus, partner in our real estate team and Philippe Hameau...

August Debouzy advised the family shareholders of the Escalotel group in the sale of nearly all of its shares to a consortium composed of Alboran, Trocadero Capital Partners and BPI France.

French so-called "amicable procedures" are widely used to rescue companies facing difficulties due to the "Covid" crisis.

Substantial reforms to Regulation (EC) 1346/2000 on insolvency proceedings were made under Regulation (EU) 2015/848 of 20 May 2015 on insolvency proceedings (recast) (the "Recast Insolvency Regulation").

On 13 January 2021, the court of appeal of Toulouse rendered a very interesting decision ruling upon the outcome of the insolvency proceedings of BVA, a well-known research and consulting firm.

After the "Dutch scheme"1 and the "German scheme"2 entered into force at the beginning of 2021, France has now published its much-anticipated transposition of the European directive of 20 June 2019...

Under consideration is a proposed merger between the English Premiership and the United Rugby Championship (URC). This initiative, revealed by The Telegraph, could redefine the landscape of European rugby and offer interesting economic prospects for British and Irish clubs.

Le Conseil d'Etat annule deux arrêts de la CAA de Paris ayant qualifié d'actif incorporel une indemnité versée dans le cadre d'une réorganisation intragroupe.

On March 8, 2011, France's highest court, the Cour de cassation, confirmed that CMBS borrower, Heart of la Défense SAS (Hold), and its Luxembourg parent company, Dame Luxembourg Sarl (Dame), were entitled to Court protection in France under Safeguard Proceedings (sauvegarde).

On 15 september 2021, a major reform of French insolvency law was enacted, mainly to implement the European Restructuring Directive.

Employees are the core of a company's success. Neither its capital, its premises, its newest machinery, nor even its leadership would mean much without a great workforce to drive it forward.

A borrower who, without having the right to do so, would not pay a credit instalment due between 12 March 2020 and one month after the end of the state of health emergency...

Article 6 of the French amending finance law for 2020 of 23 March 2020 n° 2020-289 provides that the French State may guarantee loans granted by credit institutions, finance companies and crowdfunding lenders from 16 March 2020 through 31 December 2020.

In a turbulent year defined by a return to a more protectionist approach in the United States, tariffs remain a work in progress.

La CAA de Douai considère qu'une société française ayant supporté l'essentiel des coûts d'un plan social décidé au niveau de son groupe international doit être regardée comme ayant consenti...

Consulting the CSE is relevant to a wide range of situations, some of which require specific procedures to be implemented.

Dans deux décisions définitives du 20 juin 2018 de la Cour administrative d'appel de Paris, la procédure d'agrément exigée pour l'application du régime de faveur à un apport dont la qualification de branche complète ...

Under French law, companies are protected by several procedures to overcome financial difficulties. This legal protection aims to help companies facing financial difficulties and protect the overall business economy from the risks of cascading bankruptcies.