The firm’s analyses, sorted by practice area and then by topic: 188 pieces, each devoted to a specific question and its practical consequences. The weekly digests are gathered on the News page; the downloadable practical guides are listed on each practice area page.
Maritime law (58)
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Yachts and pleasure craft
- Accident on board a yacht in France: liability of the owner towards guests, passengers and crew
- Building a yacht in the Netherlands, Germany or Italy: the shipyard’s law compared
- Buying a yacht abroad: the ten checks before you sign
- Commercial yacht in France: VAT exemption, duty-free fuel and the conditions customs checks
- Dispute with a foreign shipyard: governing law, competent court and arbitration
- Disputes with a yacht broker: commission, mandate and deposit
- Holding a yacht through a company in France: structure, costs and risks
- Illegal yacht charter in France: the risks for the owner and the broker
- International yacht sales: the legal, tax and customs framework
- Late delivery of a new yacht: liquidated damages, termination, guarantees
- Latent defects on a second-hand yacht: remedies and time limits
- Mortgage on a ship under construction in France since the 2026 reform: financing a new yacht
- MYBA contract: what as is, where is really means, and how to protect yourself
- New yacht acceptance, sea trials and hidden defects: the one-year time limit after delivery
- Selling a yacht to a foreign buyer: VAT, flag, sanctions and payment
- Temporary admission of a non-EU yacht: eighteen months, not twenty-four
- Yacht charter: what the MYBA agreement covers, and what it does not
- Yacht co-ownership and fractional use: the agreement that prevents disputes
- Yacht construction and sale: the six points that decide ownership, cost and cover
- Yacht construction contract in France: ownership of the hull, refund guarantee and shipyard insolvency
- Yacht crew in France: employment contract, governing law, social security and dismissal of the captain
- Yacht without proof of VAT paid: buying, sailing and reselling in France
- Your yacht has been arrested in a French port: what to do
The ship: arrest, sale, security, flag
- Arresting a ship in France to secure a maritime claim
- Buying a second-hand ship on the Norwegian Saleform 2012: key clauses and disputes
- Can a ship be arrested in France on the strength of a foreign judgment?
- Francisation and registration of a vessel: the difference and the steps
- Ship mortgages: how to check that a vessel is unencumbered
- Shipyard refusing to release a boat in France: the right of retention and how to get the boat back
- The French International Register (RIF): conditions and benefits for shipowners
Maritime contracts, carriage and arbitration
- Container damaged or lost: who is liable, and how long you have
- Demurrage and detention: calculation, challenge and time limits
- ICC arbitration clause in a maritime contract: what it settles, what it leaves to the court
- Maritime arbitration: CAMP and SCMA against the generalist institutions
- Maritime contracts: the six points that decide which regime applies and what it costs you
- Red Sea and maritime deviation: the six points that decide whether your delay will be legally excusable
Insurance, general average and casualties
- Assistance and towage at sea in France: challenging a salvage invoice
- Average bond and average guarantee: releasing cargo held for general average
- Collision at sea or in port: liability, evidence and time limits in France
- General average adjustment: who draws it up, what it contains, how to challenge it
- General average and liability: who contributes, in what proportion, and who to pursue
- General average: who pays, and how to challenge the adjustment
- Marine pollution: the six points that decide who is prosecuted and what is at stake
- Marine pollution: the six points that decide who pays, and how much
- Pleasure craft insurance: refusal of cover, two-year limitation, abandonment
- Pollution from a ship: what the master and the owner risk
- Shipowner’s limitation of liability in France: the London Convention and the limitation fund
- Time limits and recourse in general average: one year against the carrier, five years for contribution
- What is allowed in general average, and what stays with you
Seafarers, ports, offshore and transition
- Autonomous ships and the IMO MASS Code: maritime liability in 2026
- Autonomous ships under French law: the six points that decide which regime applies and who answers for it
- Marina berths in France: usage guarantees, fees, termination and the competent court
- Port damage: who is liable, and how long do you have to act?
- Port liability: the six points that decide who pays for damage occurring within the port
- Port State detention of a ship in France: release and appeals
- Seafarer recruitment and placement: the six points that decide the shipowner’s liability
- Shipping decarbonisation: the six points that decide what the company must surrender and what it risks
- Shipping decarbonisation: the six points that decide who pays the carbon cost
International trade (88)
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Customs, origin, sanctions and export controls
- Bank guarantees and Russia sanctions: blocking the call, defending in Russia
- Carbon tax: the six points that determine your legal exposure
- Customs assessment: challenging a French notice of recovery
- Dual-use items: how to tell whether your civil product needs an export licence
- European customs reform 2026: the six points that determine your exposure to risk
- Extraterritorial reach of US law: the six points that decide how exposed your international flows are
- How to challenge international sanctions? The six avenues of redress
- International sanctions: what a French exporter must be able to prove in 2026
- OFAC and extraterritoriality: can a French company be sanctioned?
- Origin of goods and customs duties: the mistakes that cost the most
- Preferential origin: why made in France is not enough to get the reduced duty
- Recovering a debt in the EU without exequatur: European order for payment and account preservation
- Sanctions against Russia: what a French company may still do
- The Union Customs Code: Regulation (EU) 2026/2108 has been published
- US discovery and the French Blocking Statute: how to handle a document request
- US tariffs: who bears the increase under an existing contract?
- VAT on exports: what proof of exit to keep, and what changes on 1 January 2027
Disputes, arbitration and enforcement
- Arbitration in Singapore: SIAC, SCMA or ad hoc, and what the seat commits you to
- Arbitration institutions: what a one million euro dispute costs, from the ICC to the CAMP
- Award against an African State: immunity from execution and attachments
- Can a bank account in France be attached on the strength of a foreign judgment?
- Can real property be seized in France on the strength of a foreign judgment?
- Challenging an award made in Singapore: setting aside, the SICC and the reform under way
- Challenging an OHADA arbitral award: remedies and time limits
- Challenging exequatur of a foreign judgment in France: what defenses are available?
- Enforcing a Canadian or Quebec Judgment in France
- Enforcing a Chinese judgment in France: conditions and obstacles
- Enforcing a foreign judgment in France: recovering your money from the debtor’s assets
- Enforcing a French judgment abroad: EU, United Kingdom, Switzerland and non-EU countries
- Enforcing a German judgment in France: procedure, documents and timeframes
- Enforcing a Moroccan judgment in France: the 1957 convention and exequatur
- Enforcing a Singapore arbitral award in France
- Enforcing a Singapore Judgment in France
- Enforcing a Swiss judgment in France: exequatur and seizures
- Enforcing a Tunisian judgment in France: the 1972 convention and exequatur
- Enforcing a United Arab Emirates judgment in France
- Enforcing a US or English judgment in France: procedure and timescales
- Enforcing an Algerian Judgment in France
- Enforcing an ICC arbitral award, in France and abroad
- Enforcing an OHADA judgment or a CCJA ruling in France
- Exequatur and enforcement of foreign decisions: the six decisive points
- Exequatur of an arbitral award in France: petition, documents, challenges
- Foreign judgment: can the debtor’s assets be secured in France before exequatur?
- Governing law and jurisdiction: the clause that decides the case
- ICC arbitration clause: the five decisions you make before signing
- ICC emergency arbitrator or national court: who to turn to before the tribunal exists
- ICC Rules of Arbitration 2026: what changes for companies
- ICC, SIAC and SCC arbitration: the ad valorem schedules and what they guarantee
- ICSID: what an investor State arbitration costs, and why it does not compare
- LCIA, ICDR and HKIAC: arbitrating at an hourly rate without losing control of the budget
- Mediation before arbitration: a useful clause, if it is well drafted
- OHADA arbitration clause: seat, language and governing law
- OHADA arbitration: the key concepts explained
- OHADA arbitration: Uniform Act or CCJA, how to choose
- SIAC arbitration clause: the six decisions to take before signing
- SIAC emergency arbitrator: obtaining relief in twenty four hours
- SIAC Rules 2025: the streamlined procedure that applies without you
- Swiss Arbitration Centre, WIPO and CIETAC: three specialised schedules, three logics of neutrality
- What an ICC arbitration costs: the 2026 scale, advances and real budget
Payment, guarantees and international debt recovery
- Choosing the right Incoterm and the right payment method for export
- Documentary credit: bank discrepancies and non-conforming documents
- Foreign customer not paying: where to sue and how to recover
- On-demand guarantees: how to defend against an abusive call
- The bank refuses my documentary credit: what should I do?
Investing and setting up in France
- Foreign direct investment in France: the six points that decide whether a transaction is valid
- Foreign investment control in France: thresholds, sectors, timescales
- Protecting a French investment abroad with bilateral investment treaties
International sales, contracts and supply
- ACE Congress 2026: hardship in international law
- Ending a relationship with a foreign supplier: notice, abrupt termination and governing law
- EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR): what changes for importers
- Exclusive distribution abroad: what your agreement must lock down
- Export agents and intermediaries: managing bribery risk under Sapin II
- Exporter disputes: six situations, six answers
- Exporting from France in 2026: the legal checklist before you sign
- Force majeure and hardship clauses in an international contract
- Force majeure and hardship in international contracts: what to know before acting
- Forced labour and deforestation: what EU regulations require of importing companies
- Foreign supplier stops delivering: avoidance, substitute purchase and damages
- Incoterms 2020, transfer of risk and retention of title: what your contract does not settle
- Incoterms 2020: EXW, FOB, CIF, DAP, who bears the risk and when?
- International commercial agency: termination indemnity and applicable law
- International sale of goods: the six points that decide which contract binds you
- International supply chains: the legal risks for a company that buys abroad
- My foreign buyer disputes conformity eight months after delivery: what should I do?
- My foreign buyer refuses the goods: what should I do?
- My foreign distributor stops paying: where do I sue?
- My foreign partner terminates the contract without notice: what are my remedies?
- The Vienna Convention (CISG): when does it apply and how is it excluded?
Business law (27)
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Commercial relationships, competition and trade secrets
- Abuse of economic dependence: proving it, qualifying it, and obtaining compensation
- Abuse of economic dependence: the six points that decide whether the text finally has teeth
- Annual trade negotiations in France and significant imbalance: the rules of the game
- Defects of consent: the six points that decide whether your contract survives a nullity action
- Franchising in France: pre-contractual disclosure and leaving the network
- Limitation of liability and penalty clauses in France: what the courts strike out or reduce
- Sudden termination of an established commercial relationship: notice, damages and 2026 case law
- Terminating a contract for breach without going to court in France: termination clause, notice and withholding performance
- Trade secrets and the right to evidence: the six points that decide whether a document gets produced
- Trade secrets: what is protected, how to act and what the judge can order
- Unfair competition, disparagement and free-riding in France: proving fault and quantifying loss
Companies, shareholders and transactions
- A director’s personal guarantee in France since the 2021 reform: handwritten statement, disproportion, information
- Duty of vigilance: the six points that decide whether your plan survives a formal notice
- Majority abuse, minority abuse and management audits: a French shareholder’s weapons
- Nullity reform in French company law: the six points that decide the fate of your corporate resolutions
- Removing a director in France: proper cause, compensation and procedure
- Selling a business (fonds de commerce) in France: creditor objections, price escrow and real timelines
- Selling or buying a French company: letter of intent, exclusivity, earn-out and the seller’s non-compete
- Setting up in France as a foreign company: branch, subsidiary or liaison office?
- Shareholder deadlock at 50/50: how to break it under French law
- Shareholders agreement: what it really protects, and what it does not
- Warranty of assets and liabilities: duration, cap and how to make a claim
Litigation, unpaid debts and insolvency
- France’s economic activities courts: what changes for companies in litigation
- Late payment between businesses: penalty interest, the 40 euro indemnity and recovery routes
- Liquidation in France: when the director pays out of his own pocket
- Mandat ad hoc and conciliation in France: negotiating with creditors before insolvency
- My customer is in receivership or liquidation in France: lodging the claim and reclaiming the goods
Real estate law (15)
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Construction, defects and warranties
- Acceptance of works in France: reservations, effects and the three warranties
- Damage to works insurance in France: the sixty and ninety day deadlines
- Decennial warranty and equipment fitted to existing buildings: what changed in 2024
- French decennial warranty: which defects, which remedies, which time limits
- Late delivery of an off-plan property (VEFA): penalties, rescission and the developer’s liability
- Perfect completion and two year warranty: the first two years after acceptance
- VEFA delivery delay: the six points that decide what you can actually recover
Buying, selling and hidden defects
- Buying property in France as a non-resident: tax, financing, pitfalls
- Cross-border property acquisition: the six points that decide whether the transaction holds
- Hidden defects on a French property purchase: time limits, proof and remedies
Commercial leases
- Commercial lease and the Act of 26 May 2026: what changes for landlord and tenant
- Commercial lease renewal in France: rent decapping and the eviction indemnity