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    France: Macron law adopted
    2015-09-28

    Law n°2015 990 for growth, activity and equality of economic opportunities, the Macron Law, was finally adopted on 6 August 2015. This law covers a wide range of matters from Sunday working, reform of regulated legal professions to driving licences.

    Relaxing of the Regime for Free Shares

    Filed under:
    France, Company & Commercial, Employee Benefits & Pensions, Insolvency & Restructuring, Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
    Authors:
    Sophie Brezin , Emma Rohsler
    Location:
    France
    Firm:
    Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
    Newsletter Contentieux Commercial - N°3 - 1er trimestre 2016
    2016-01-12

    Sommaire

    • Le devoir de conseil du prestataire informatique
    • Inopposabilité par la caution de la clause de conciliation préalable contenue dans un contrat de prêt
    • Le devoir de conseil et d’information du conseil en gestion de patrimoine
    • La notion d’investisseur averti
    • Absence de subsidiarité de la responsabilité des professionnels du droit
    • Dématérialisation des procédures collectives

    Le devoir de conseil du prestataire informatique

    Filed under:
    France, Banking, Capital Markets, Company & Commercial, Insolvency & Restructuring, Internet & Social Media, IT & Data Protection, Litigation, Taylor Wessing
    Authors:
    Philippe Glaser , Julia Kalfon
    Location:
    France
    Firm:
    Taylor Wessing
    French Finance Act 2012 and 4th Amended Finance Act 2011
    2012-01-04

    Amendments to the rules of deductibility of interest expenses

    Further restrictions to deductibility of interest expenses incurred in relation to a share purchase1

    Filed under:
    France, Company & Commercial, Corporate Finance/M&A, Insolvency & Restructuring, Tax, Latham & Watkins LLP, Royalty payment, Debt, Finance Acts (UK)
    Authors:
    Olivia Rauch-Ravisé , Xavier Renard , Jérôme Commerçon
    Location:
    France
    Firm:
    Latham & Watkins LLP
    Directors’ Duties - Germany Considerations for Directors When a Company Is in Financial Difficulty
    2020-04-17

    This quick guide summarises the duties that a managing director of a German GmbH (hereinafter "director") is subject to, and how those duties change when the company is insolvent or at risk of being insolvent.

    It also gives an overview of the personal risk to directors when the company is in financial difficulty.

    Filed under:
    Germany, Company & Commercial, Insolvency & Restructuring, Squire Patton Boggs, Coronavirus
    Location:
    Germany
    Firm:
    Squire Patton Boggs
    Germany: COVID-19 and its impact on ongoing contractual obligations
    2020-04-08

    As part of the package of measures to mitigate the effects of the corona crisis, the German Bundestag has fast-tracked an act to mitigate the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic in civil law, insolvency law, and the law on criminal procedure, adopting it into law on 25 March 2020. 

    The act contains a civil law moratorium that benefits parties who owe certain forms of contractual performance where the COVID-19 pandemic has forced them into the position that they cannot meet their contractual obligations.

    Filed under:
    Germany, Company & Commercial, Insolvency & Restructuring, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Coronavirus
    Authors:
    Martin Mekat , Martina de Lind van Wijngaarden , Michael Rohls
    Location:
    Germany
    Firm:
    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
    COVID 19: Die rechtlichen Auswirkungen auf das Insolvenzrecht
    2020-04-09

    Vorübergehende Aussetzung der Insolvenzantragspflicht und des Rechts des Gläubigers, die Eröffnung eines Insolvenzverfahrens zu beantragen

    Am 25. März 2020 hat der Deutsche Bundestag ein Gesetz „zur Abmilderung der Folgen der COVID-19-Pandemie im Zivil-, Insolvenz- und Strafverfahrensrecht (COVID-19 Insolvenzgesetz) beschlossen, das darauf abzielt, Unternehmen zu schützen, die infolge der COVID-19-Pandemie in finanzielle Schwierigkeiten geraten.

    Filed under:
    Germany, Company & Commercial, Insolvency & Restructuring, Bird & Bird LLP, Coronavirus
    Authors:
    Dirk Barcaba , Elie Kaufman
    Location:
    Germany
    Firm:
    Bird & Bird LLP
    Germany, Covid-19 Crisis: Summary of Government Measures
    2020-04-09

    In Germany, as in many other countries, a number of laws have been passed in order to respond to the economic challenges in connection with the Covid-19 crisis. This memorandum provides a brief summary and overview focusing on the most relevant changes to the legal landscape.

    I. Financial Support

    Filed under:
    Germany, Banking, Company & Commercial, Employment & Labor, Insolvency & Restructuring, Real Estate, Tax, Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP, Force majeure, Coronavirus
    Authors:
    Dr. Juergen van Kann , Christian Kleeberg , Katrin Gaensler , Dr. Peter Breschendorf
    Location:
    Germany
    Firm:
    Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP
    Navigating through Covid-19: The German legal HUB
    2020-04-14

    As Covid-19 continues to spread across the world, the likelihood of your organisation being directly impacted by the outbreak (e. g an infected customer, employee etc.) also increases. Each organisation should insure that it has in place a robust organisational resilience plan which addresses all relevant issues.

    Filed under:
    Germany, Banking, Company & Commercial, Competition & Antitrust, Employment & Labor, Insolvency & Restructuring, IT & Data Protection, Projects & Procurement, Linklaters LLP, Coronavirus
    Location:
    Germany
    Firm:
    Linklaters LLP
    Coronavirus & Zivilverfahren - Eilrechtsschutz in Zeiten von „Corona“
    2020-04-15

    Wenn es eilt, bietet die ZPO Mittel und Wege, schnell ans Ziel zu kommen. Der Eilrechtsschutz ist in der COVID-19-Pandemie daher stark im Fokus. Es stellen sich Fragen wie „, Können die Gerichte helfen, die Lieferkette zu stützen?, Wie lässt sich ein Eilverfahren derzeit praktisch durchführen?, Ist durch ‚Corona‘ jetzt alles dringlich?“. Dieser Beitrag unserer Reihe „Coronavirus & Zivilprozess“ verschafft einen Überblick.

    Überblick: Eilrechtsschutz mittels Arrest und einstweiliger Verfügung

    Filed under:
    Germany, Company & Commercial, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Hogan Lovells, Supply chain, Coronavirus
    Authors:
    Carolin Marx , Fabian Witt
    Location:
    Germany
    Firm:
    Hogan Lovells
    Germany: The Act on the mitigation of the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic in the areas of insolvency, civil and criminal procedure law
    2020-04-06

    - Main points of interest and preliminary analysis –

    Filed under:
    Germany, Company & Commercial, Insolvency & Restructuring, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Coronavirus
    Location:
    Germany
    Firm:
    Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

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