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30 January 2017 | Thomas Caveng

Colloquium on the reform of French contract law

On January 10, Jean-Luc Soulier and Stéphanie Yavordios led, together with the insurance brokerage firm CCAL, a colloquium on the impact that the new French law of contracts and obligations will have on the negotiation and drafting of commercial agreements for the purchase and sale of products and services.

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26 December 2016 | Soulier Bunch

Legal privilege under US law vs. French right to evidence

Can legal privilege under US law prevent the enforcement of a preparatory inquiry in futurum (literally for the future) ordered in France? Under French law, preparatory inquiries in futurum are designed to establish or preserve evidence, most of the time in connection with a future trial. Their implementation may be hindered by several barriers, including […]

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26 December 2016 | Soulier Bunch

Is the right to disconnect about to become an effective right for employees in France?

In today’s digital and “all-connected” world where 71% of French executive employees read work emails in the evening or on holiday[1], the “right to disconnect” has been officially introduced in the French Labor Code following its legislative recognition in the so-called “Work Law” of August 8, 2016. Effective as from January 1, 2017, the mandatory […]

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26 December 2016 | Soulier Bunch

The “Sapin II Law”: What impact on French corporate law ?

Adopted by the French Parliament on November 8, 2016, the Law on transparency, the fight against corruption and the modernization of the economy, commonly referred to as the “Sapin II Law” (the “Law”) “is intended [according to the French Government], more than 20 years after the Law no. 93- 122 of January 29, 1993 on […]

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