Twenty years ago suppliers who refused to reinstate a terminated distributor still meeting the criteria for approval within their qualitative and/or quantitative selective distribution networks were almost always unsuccessful in the [...]
The Paris Tribunal de commerce has once again expressed its clear and reasoned position on the freedom of qualitative selective distribution network not opt not to approve the candidacy of a former authorized repairer even if it meets [...]
On 24th May 2017, the Paris Court of Appeal issued a ruling that is very worrying for the heads of selective distribution networks. In 2009, Chrysler liquidated its business and transferred the goodwill to FCA France with effect on 1st [...]
On 8 November 2016, the French parliament finally adopted the Law on transparency, the fight against corruption and to the modernization of economic life (“Sapin II”). The text provides adjustments to mechanisms regulating [...]
The Sapin II Law in its anti-corruption and anti-tax fraud provisions laid down the requirement for companies to make public their “practices of transferring profits and tax base to tax haven countries”. The measure was [...]
The decision to clear FNAC/Darty merger (Decision No. 16-DCC-111 of 27 July 2016) represents a significant development in the decision-making practice of the French Competition Authority in the field of merger control. It is also [...]
The Macron Law of 6 August 2015, which was adopted after several months of parliamentary debate and invoking on three occasions Article 49.3 of the Constitution (allowing a government to pass a law without parliament’s approval), [...]
For the extension of confidentiality to advice given by in-house legal counsel Three important questions are currently being asked with regard to the confidentiality of advice given by in-house lawyers: I. What is the current situation [...]
The Macron bill fails to address the real economic problems facing the country today. Under the guise of market liberalization, the new legislation increases State interventionism adding yet another layer to the regulation of the [...]
Mergers can of course appreciably affect the market position and even the fate of the merging parties’ competitors and their trading partners, suppliers or customers. What means are available under French competition law to a company [...]
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