We are pleased to publish this month a contribution entitled Brexit: What to Expect and How to Prepare for the ‘New Normal’, authored by our colleagues Huw Beverley-Smith, Alex Denny and Gary Laitner, partners at Faegre Baker Daniels.
“July 4 ! Independence Day.
One day – out of three hundred and sixty five – to reaffirm that, in a world troubled by changing codes (and I am not talking only about computer codes), the continued emergence of new political and economic continents and subcontinents, the clash, sometimes terrible, between cultures that were so far ignored or isolated, it is fundamental to recall and cherish the emotional relationship that exists between the United States of America and Europe, between the United States of America and France of course, and between the United States of America and the City of Lyon assuredly…”
The U.K. has voted, in a popular referendum, to leave the EU. The referendum is not legally binding and the result was extremely narrow: 51.9 percent in favor of leaving, 48.1 percent in favor of remaining.
The process of leaving the EU will formally commence when the U.K. notifies the European Council of its intent to withdraw from the EU. Article 50 of the Treaty of European Union provides for the negotiation of a withdrawal agreement between the EU and the withdrawing state, defining the terms and conditions of the withdrawing state’s relationship with the EU.
On February 16, 2016, the Commercial Chamber of the Cour de Cassation (French Supreme Court) handed down an interesting decision[1] concerning the abusive breakdown of negotiations. This decision, which is consistent with the line of decisions rendered on that subject, brings additional clarification about the breakdown of on-going negotiations for the sale of a business […]
In a judgment dated May 3, 2016[1], the Court of Appeals of Versailles provided a new illustration of a long established case-law according to which the general terms of a party are contractually binding only if they have been accepted, at the time the contract was formed, by the party against whom such terms are […]
The very much expected Regulation n°2016/679 of the European parliament and of the Council of April 27, 2016, on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (also known as “General Data Protection Regulation” or “GDPR”) has just been published on the […]