We are pleased to wish our founding partner André Soulier a happy anniversary. The ruling of acquittal of Jean-Marie Deveaux, a 27 year old butcher assistant accused of having slit the throat of his employers’ daughter, was indeed issued by the Côte-d’Or Criminal Court in Dijon on September 27, 1969 after eight years of court […]
We are pleased to announce the release of a report entitled “2019-2020 Report on Global Trade Policy”, authored by the members of the International Trade Law Group of the World Law Group, a global network of leading independent law firms of which our firm is a member. This Report provides an overview on top trade […]
The French Data Protection Authority (Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés or “CNIL”) receives many individual and collective complaints (La Quadrature du Net, Privacy International, NOYB) relating to online marketing. In 2018, 21% of the complaints were related to marketing in the broad sense. Meanwhile, online marketing professionals and their representatives are seeking to better understand their obligations under the General Data Protection Regulation. Pending the adoption of the forthcoming ePrivacy Regulation, the CNIL has released new guidelines.
Definitively adopted on April 11, 2019, the Law on business growth and transformation, known as the “PACTE” Law, reforms the workforce thresholds and amends the rules governing employee savings schemes in many respects.
This article provides an overview of the main provisions of the Law that have implications for the French labor and employment landscape.
The property ownership tax (taxe foncière) is a local tax levied once a year by municipalities. To calculate the amount of the tax, tax authorities use the cadastral rental value of the property. This base is then multiplied by the tax rate set by each municipality. Any owner of a real estate property is liable for the property ownership tax. However, while the owner is effectively legally liable for this tax, it is permissible, under a commercial lease agreement, for the latter to pass all or part of the burden of this tax to the lessee of the property. But what exactly does the law say?
We are pleased to announce that we are again recommended by the Legal 500 Paris and Legal 500 EMEA 2019-2020 in the following practice areas: labor & employment, environment and dispute resolution.