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The Law on securing employment n°2013-504 of June 14, 2013 has introduced new rules providing for the mandatory representation – with voting rights – of employees on the Board of Directors or Supervisory Board of sociétés anonymes (joint-stock companies) and sociétés en commandite par actions (partnerships limited by shares) of a certain size. By the […]

The Health, Safety and Working Conditions Committee (“HSWCC”), a social partner whose sphere of competence was originally limited, has gradually become a key player and is now involved in many stages of the daily life of businesses.  The increasing involvement of this Committee is quite logical given the growing concerns and obligations related to health […]

The sales agent status is much talked and written about these days! After having ruled on the determination of the place of performance of a sales agency contract[1], the Cour de Cassation (French Supreme Court) has been recently asked to consider the concept of serious misconduct that deprives a sales agent of its right to […]

Our firm sponsored and participated in the first Ahimsa RoundTable, a series of annual working sessions

This contribution concerns the recently enacted Capital Markets Law (law 26.831), i.e. the most substantial change to the capital markets regulation since 1968.

In a case concerning the music Just because of you, the theme song of the French movie Les bronzés font du ski, the Cour de Cassation (French Supreme Court) reversed its case-law in a decision handed down on July 3, 2013. Specifically, the Cour de Cassation ruled that “while the moral rights of a performing […]