Paris | ENVIRONMENT
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One year of case law on renewable energy – Energy, Environment, Infrastructure, 01/10/2022
This column presents, in a non-exhaustive way, the most important decisions on renewable energy law for the period from September 2021 to August 2022 – more specifically on wind and photovoltaic energy, as well as, to a lesser extent, on hydropower and energy from methanization. [in french]
Paris | ENERGY TRANSITION AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Global Legal Insights – Energy 2023, Chapter France, 2023
Overview of the current energy mix, and the place in the market of different energy sources. The French government is facing crucial decisions about its future energy mix due to climate change and the war in Ukraine. France benefits shistorically from decarbonised electricity based on nuclear power, but is now accelerating to set up and […]
Paris | ENERGY
Commercial rent indexation: quicksand! – Business Immo, november 2022
Après une actualité jurisprudentielle fournie au cours des dernières années sur la validité des clauses d’échelle mobile limitant la variation indiciaire du loyer du bail commercial, c’est au tour du gouvernement et du législateur d’intervenir successivement pour contraindre l’indice des loyers commerciaux (ILC). Ainsi, par deux mesures à quelques mois d’intervalle, l’évolution indiciaire des loyers […]
Paris | REAL ESTATE
PSD2: the new contours of the concepts of “limit network of acceptors” and “limit range of goods and services – Option finance, 10/31/2022
On July 20, 2022, the ACPR declared itself partially compliant with the European Banking Authority (EBA) Guidelines on the exclusion of “limited networks” under PSD2 published on February 24, 2022 (EBA/GL/2022/02). What about in practice? Read the legal analysis and the answers of Delphine Baudouin, Counsel in Jeantet’s Banking and Finance Department, for Option Finance, […]
Paris | BANK-FINANCE-REGULATORY
What’s the point of the AMF’s new warning against financing prized by French start-ups? – Finascope, 11/08/2022
Legal column by our partner Frank Martin-Laprade. Le 13 octobre 2022, et pour la troisième fois en deux ans, l’AMF a publié une mise en garde à l’encontre de certains types de « financements dilutifs » qu’elle désigne désormais par la formule globale « d’OCABSA ou d’equity lines », alors qu’il s’agit potentiellement de deux choses différentes, comme elle semblait d’ailleurs l’avoir initialement bien compris, puisque son premier communiqué […]
Paris | BANK-FINANCE-REGULATORY
M&A in France: FDI Screening
The French Ministry of the Economy has recently published, for the first time, guidelines regarding the procedures for the screening of foreign direct investments in France. Stephen Walters, Partner (Jeantet) and Victoria Régis, Counsel (Jeantet) have authored an overview of the French FDI screening regime which discusses some of the key points to emerge from […]
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Distressed M&A – France 2023, Lexology, octobre 2022
Anne Toupenay-Schueller and Ali Baydoun have contributed to the 2023 Distressed M&A Guide published by Lexology. The 2023 guide focuses on: Market climate and legal framework Transaction structures and sale process Due diligence Valuation and financing Documentation Regulatory and judicial approvals Dispute resolution Updates and trends
Paris | DISTRESSED M&A
Faced with investment contraction, tech seeks alternatives – Forbes, 10/03/2022 – Quote from Stephen Walters
Global venture capital funding reached $25.2 billion in August 2022, the lowest monthly amount recorded in two years by Crunchbase. Until adequate government action is announced, several funding alternatives can be considered. « Cette forte baisse des valeurs de la tech depuis le début de l’année a commencé au Nasdaq, mais ses effets se ressentent […]
Paris | MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
Transposition of the European Insolvency Directive: A rebalancing between companies in difficulty and their creditors- La Jaune & La Rouge, October 2022
Laïd Estelle Laurent and Bertrand Biette, partners, review the legislative changes brought about by the transposition of the European Insolvency Directive into French law. In particular, they tell us more about the more important place given to creditors in the elaboration and negotiation of recovery and turnaround plans. Meeting.
Paris | RESTRUCTURING – LAW OF COMPANIES IN DIFFICULTY
A great opportunity for the new president of the AMF ? – Option Finance, 09/19/2022
Will the future chairman of the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) be able to seize the opportunity provided by a new mandate at the head of the stock market regulator to (finally) turn the page on the former Commission des opérations de bourse (COB) and bring himself up to speed – in Europe – with […]
Paris | BANK-FINANCE-REGULATORY
France: Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters – Legal 500, september 2022
This country-specific Q&A provides an overview of Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters laws and regulations applicable in France.
Paris | LITIGATION – ARBITRATION – MEDIATION