BMHAVOCATS is honored to announce that our Restructuring Partner Anja Droege Gagnier has been appointed as Co-Chair of the Insolvency Section of the International Bar Association, along with Darío A. Oscós R. (Oscós Abogados).
The limitation of liability clause is one of the points at the centre of negotiations on the conclusion of contracts under French law. The rift between the interests of the parties is particularly wide here: The client usually insists on unlimited liability on the part of the contractor, in particular with regard to the financial…
It would be an understatement to say that the news, revealed by the newspaper Les Echos on September 16, that the Ministry of Economy and Finance was, for budgetary reasons, reportedly considering “renegotiating” the solar power purchase contracts concluded by producers and EDF Obligation d’Achat (or other obligated buyers) before 2011, has had the effect…
Christophe Jolk, tax partner of BMHAvocats in Paris, has become a member of the International Academy of Estate and Trust Law. The Academy concentrates on the analysis of the legal requirements and the tax consequences of the transfer of wealth and has members who practice or have offices in forty-one countries.
Anja Droege Gagnier, Partner at BMH AVOCATS, was a speaker on July 8th at the 16th annual Handelsblatt Conference on restructuring, which took place from July 6th to 8th in “digital format”. More information can be found on the website of the Handelsblatt and the conference program below: DOWNLOAD AND PRINT PROGRAM
The Massenberg Group, a portfolio company of DPE Deutsche Private Equity (“DPE”), has acquired the French Aéro Solutions SAS (“Aéro Solutions”). The acquisition is subject to the condition precedent of regulatory approvals. The seller of Aéro Solutions’ shares is the founder and CEO of Aéro Solutions, Sebastian Thielkes, who will continue to manage the company.…
The Covid 19 crisis has prompted various European governments to hastily review their policies for foreign direct investment control. On 25 March 2020, the President of the European Commission called on Member States to protect their security and economic sovereignty and to “preserve EU companies and critical assets, notably in areas such as health, medical…
5 June 2020 13:00 – 14:00 BST Once the government support packages in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic will be reduced or terminated, the coming to “normal” will be far as national economies will continue to face huge difficulties in terms of decrease in sales and services as well as in unemployment. Companies…
Over the past two months, the health crisis and the lockdown associated with the Covid-19 have profoundly changed the employment world (home office; production shutdown and site closures, introduction of safety rules to protect the health of employees and limit the spread of the epidemic, etc.). Although the French government has announced a gradual end…
International arbitration proceedings, by definition, allow parties to settle their disputes worldwide. In particular, they allow parties from different jurisdictions and with different legal backgrounds to do so. With a constantly growing number of international arbitration matters over the last decades, cases in which parties with a common law background faced parties with a civil…