France: Financial Services

The EU Commission Adopts Banking Package To Facilitate Lending In Response To COVID-19.

Un certain nombre de sociétés mères de groupes industriels et commerciaux se sont vues notifiées par l'ACPR récemment leur qualification de « compagnie holding mixte...

A bank that has its registered office outside the European Economic Area ("EEA") may consider establishing a presence in France in order to provide banking services to French counterparties.

The European Union ("EU") Listing Act, approved by the EU Council on October 8, 2024, introduces key changes to the EU Prospectus Regulation, offering greater flexibility to access and issue securities on EU markets for small and medium-sized enterprises ("SMEs"), including in the biotech and med-tech sector.

In a decision that may cause some concern, the CJEU has held that asymmetric EU jurisdiction clauses are only valid under EU law if they designate with sufficient precision the alternative jurisdictions in which proceedings may be brought.

The overall principle of the insolvency laws of many countries is the equal treatment of the creditors of the insolvency debtor.

On March 8, 2011, France's highest court, the Cour de cassation, confirmed that CMBS borrower, Heart of la Défense SAS (Hold), and its Luxembourg parent company, Dame Luxembourg Sarl (Dame), were entitled to Court protection in France under Safeguard Proceedings (sauvegarde).

The French government took advantage of the Ordonnance on securities reform of June 24, 2004 to introduce a new category of securities called actions de préférence, or preferred shares.

Article 11 of the Finance Law for 2003, codified under Article 208-C of the French Tax Code (FTC), provides for a new tax regime to the benefit of real estate companies which are listed on a French stock exchange. This tax regime (the SIIC Regime) exempts from French corporate income tax, subject to certain distribution requirements, rental income earned by such companies as well as capital gains that they realize on the sale of real estate assets, shares in real estate partnerships which are tr

Mit Urteil vom 19. Dezember 2024 (Az. 22/12857) nahm das Zivilgericht Paris u. a. zu der Frage Stellung, ob durch die Weitergabe von unverkaufter Ware durch den Hersteller an unterschiedliche...

The European Union ("EU") Listing Act, approved by the EU Council on October 8, 2024, introduces key changes to the EU Prospectus Regulation, offering greater flexibility to access and issue securities on EU markets for small and medium-sized enterprises ("SMEs"), including in the biotech and med-tech sector.

Dans une décision du 12 février 2025, la Chambre commerciale de la Cour de cassation se prononce sur les modalités de distributions de dividendes prélevés sur le compte de report à nouveau (Cass. Com. 12 février 2025.