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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
No one can be expected to do the impossible. By judgment dated September 7, 2015, provisionally enforceable, the Commercial Court of Lyon ordered one of our clients – an asset manager – to produce a number of accounting and financial documents to one of its former clients, subject to a daily penalty of 5,000 euros. […]
Adopted by the Parliament on November 8, 2016, the “Sapin II Law” is primarily designed to strengthen the French anti-corruption arsenal and introduces new measures to prevent and penalize corruption. This Law also brings a number of changes to the legislation governing business relationships between economic operators, including with respect to practices that restrict competition, […]
In our October 2016 e-newsletter, we addressed forfait working time arrangements, an important element of the so-called “Work Law” of August 8, 2016[1]. This month, we will focus on an even more sensitive issue raised by said Law: Dismissals on economic grounds. It is clear that through successive reforms, the French legislator, navigating by sight […]