News
Business law, explained
The developments that matter to company directors, explained without jargon and with what they mean in practice for your business.
Legal news
Developments in business law and what they change for your business.
Corporate law
Abuse of majority rights: when a majority decision can be challenged
Two cumulative conditions, one of which defeats most claims. And a time limit reduced from three years to two, which most online sources still get wrong.
Corporate law
Sale of a going concern: what transfers, and what does not
What follows automatically, what needs a third party's consent, what never follows. And the chain of deadlines that explains why the price is not received on signature.
Commercial contracts & leases
Limitation of liability clause: what it covers, and when it falls away
Three clauses decide what non-performance costs. All three are valid in principle, and it is the cases in which they give way that separate a useful clause from a decorative one.
Debt recovery & insolvency
Filing a proof of debt: the two-month deadline, what missing it costs, and what to put in it
The period runs from publication in the BODACC, not from the insolvency practitioner's letter. And what lateness carries away is not the debt: it is the security and the claim against the guarantor.
Intellectual property
Registering a trade mark: the four choices that decide whether you keep it
€190 and twenty minutes of form-filling. But a specification is never widened: trade marks are rarely lost in court, they are lost at the moment of filing.
Business transfer & tax
The holding animatrice: what qualifies it, and what the tax authorities check
Two holding companies with identical articles, two possible classifications. What separates them is not read off the register: it is demonstrated on the day of the audit, with dated records.
Commercial contracts & leases
Eviction indemnity: how what your landlord owes you is calculated
A notice refuses renewal. What you obtain depends on the period printed on the document, the calculation scenario adopted, and the premises you have not yet left.
Debt recovery & insolvency
Formal notice to pay: the wording that makes it work, and what it triggers
Each phrase in the letter triggers an effect, on a precise date. And between businesses, the most cited effect is precisely the one that does not need the letter at all.
Data & GDPR
Record of processing activities: what each column must contain
Seven columns for the controller, four for the processor. And a 250-employee threshold which, because of one word repeated twice, lets almost nobody off.
Unfair competition
Abrupt termination of commercial relations: the notice owed and the loss recoverable
The provision does not penalise termination, but its abruptness. What remains is what notice was owed — and why notice given may never have been effective.
Firm news
The life of the firm: our offices, our arrivals, our appearances.
Firm news
The firm has joined the A2PEPS association!
A2PEPS brings together more than 300 businesses in southern Perpignan, across 37 sectors of activity and employing 14,000 people between them.
Firm news
Our Perpignan office has moved!
We are moving our Perpignan office so that we can serve you better. You will now find us at Technosud II, 488 Rambla Hèlios, 66100 Perpignan. Do come and see us over a coffee!
Appointments and arrivals
Amandine is called to the Bar!
Amandine joined the firm on 1 March for her final training placement, and has just passed the CAPA, the French Bar examination. Our warmest congratulations to her. From January 2026, on her admission to the roll, she will be practising with us as a formidable avocate.
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