Droit des affaires

Late payment interest between businesses starts running automatically in France from the day after the due date, with no formal

The sale price of a French business (fonds de commerce) is not paid to the seller on signing. It is

Short answer. A company that ends, even partially, an established commercial relationship without sufficient written notice is liable under Article

Short answer. The warranty of assets and liabilities is the clause by which the seller of a company’s shares undertakes

Nine years after Law no. 2017-399 of 27 March 2017, the duty of vigilance of parent companies still has no

A nullity declared four years after signing erases the contract, never the investments made in reliance on it: a defect

For nearly sixty years, French company law treated nullity as a guillotine: an irregular notice of meeting, a missed information

The judicial liquidation of a French company does not automatically make its director liable. Article L. 651-2 of the Commercial

There is no single regime for removing a company director in France, but four. The directors and the chairman of

A shareholders agreement is a contract. Breaching it gives rise to damages, but it does not, in principle, annul a