WIR – Women in Restructuring
All the BMH AVOCATS Restructuring team, Anja Droege Gagnier, Amélie Dorst and Léa Marlière, participated in the evening and conference “Improving restructuring: best practices in France and Germany” organized by WIR – Women in restructuring. WIR is an independent association and aims to develop friendly relationships with other restructuring associations internationally and in France.
Séminaire franco allemand – Freiburg im Breisgau
L’Europe dans tous ses états: les nouveaux enjeux pour l’Europe et le droit européen Le monde est en ébullition : populisme, protectionnisme, nouvel ordre économique mondial, unilatéralisme, Brexit et guerre commerciale, entre autres … Dans le cadre de notre prochain colloque franco-allemand, nous évoquerons des sujets qui représentent autant de défis que de chances pour…
General Legal Commission: Latest news in Labour Law
General Legal Commission – Labour Law News: Recent case law on Macron scales and obligations to introduce the CSE and implement a programme to monitor and promote equal pay for men and women [SAVE THE DATE] Monday, March 11, 2019 at 7:30 pm at the CFACI offices Speakers: Nicola Kömpf Cabinet ALERION, Aymeric Le Goff,…
[TAX] Measures for combating questionable tax optimisation schemes
1. The introduction of a so-called “mini tax law abuse” for transactions whose “main” purpose is tax related Art. 109 of the Finance Act for 2019 introduces a new so-called “mini tax law abuse” procedure, designed to enable tax authorities to exclude tax optimisation schemes which principally pursue a tax objective under Art. L. 64 A of the Tax…
[RESTRUCTURING] Crypto-currencies in insolvency proceedings in France: How to deal with highly volatile assets?
Born in the early 2010’s, crypto-assets are real UFOs in the French legal landscape. Defined by French Monetary and Financial Code as “any instrument containing in digital form non-monetary value units that may be retained or transferred in order to acquire a good or service but that does not represent a claim towards the issuer”1,…
[M&A] Attribution of knowledge – Obligation to provide information, fraud and fraudulent retention of information – but who actually possesses the information?
It happens frequently that following the acquisition of a business, the acquirer, dissatisfied with the deal, attempts to obtain compensation for damages on the grounds that seller withheld decisive information. Another frequently used strategy is to try to have the contract annulled on the grounds of fraud or fraudulent retention of information. The acquirer is…