Press releases

Although rare in France, hostile takeovers can pose a harrowing challenge for targets, as most recently exemplified (...)

Franklin’s Restructuring team has assembled its latest sector-by-sector list of distressed acquisition opportunities. The targets are companies (...)

Our Labor and Employment partner Myriam de Gaudusson discusses the employment status of Uber Drivers in light (...)

Our Partner Lionel Lesur granted an interview to Laurent Pompanon, from Laurence Simons Search, to discuss carrer (...)

Franklin is proud to have been honored in Chambers Global and Chambers Europe 2021 practice guides. Congratulations (...)

The point is to arrange a sale that will later be carried out under bankruptcy protection. Since (...)

Franklin’s Senior Advisor Michel Sapin shares his insight into corruption, compliance and CSR in an interview conducted (...)

Column by partner Lionel Lesur and associate Laura Isabelle Danet, from our Corporate-M&A department, published in Option (...)

Should you sell this struggling division now or after the crisis? Many business owners and their CFOs (...)

Franklin’s Restructuring team has assembled its latest sector-by-sector list of distressed acquisition opportunities. The targets are companies (...)

Any effective anti-corruption strategy relies on an operational and viable risk map. While each strategy should be (...)

2020 was marked by an unprecedented health crisis, which has had a devastating impact on the world’s (...)

Franklin’s Restructuring team has assembled its latest sector-by-sector list of distressed acquisition opportunities. The targets are companies (...)

On January 27, 2021, the Court of Justice of the European Union (the “CJEU”) handed down an (...)

Myriam de Gaudusson , a partner in our employment law practice, gives an overview of the “Sapin (...)

Going against investor protection imperatives, France’s highest court (Cour de cassation) came down with a harsh ruling (...)

A prominent political figure, Michel Sapin served in all left-leaning governments, from François Mitterrand’s second seven-year term (...)

Franklin’s Restructuring team has assembled its latest sector-by-sector list of distressed acquisition opportunities. The targets are companies (...)

France’s 2016 contract law reform has revamped the concept of lapse (caducité), in which lawyers are well-versed. (...)

Magellim, the group resulting from the combination of asset management firm Foncière Magellan and real estate developer (...)

Franklin’s Restructuring team has assembled its latest sector-by-sector list of distressed acquisition opportunities. The targets are companies (...)

Myriam de Gaudusson, a partner in Franklin’s Labor & Employment practice, explains the concept of “co-employment” and (...)

By emergency rulings dated October 26, 2020, Paris’ first-level Civil Court declined to compel two companies to (...)

Many French businesses are required to conduct “mandatory annual negotiations” on wages, working time, value-sharing programs, gender (...)

Column by partner Lionel Lesur and associate Laura Isabelle Danet, from our Corporate-M&A department, published in Option (...)

The Islamic Republic of Mauritania has retained Franklin, in conjunction with financial consulting firm Finexem, to advise (...)

Myriam de Gaudusson, a partner in Franklin’s Labor & Employment practice, goes over the contents of the (...)

Our partners Stéphan Alamowitch and Jérôme Michel received the following rankings: Project finance: advising banks or sponsors: (...)

On November 4, 2020, the labor division of France’s highest court (Cour de cassation) ruled for the (...)

Cartel Regulation addresses the most important issues practitioners face to mitigate the fines imposed on clients under (...)

Our partners Lionel Lesur and Xavier Marchand received the following rankings: Regulatory law: Highly recommended Licensing contracts, (...)

The entire corporate recovery sector, from restructuring lawyers, to auditors and transition managers, are gearing up for (...)

On November 25, 2020, the criminal division of France’s highest court (Cour de cassation) ruled that following (...)

Column by partner Lionel Lesur and associate Laura Isabelle Danet, from our Corporate-M&A department, published in Option (...)

2020 will go down as a particularly dark year, marked by an unprecedented health crisis, swiftly followed (...)

The enforcement committee of the French stock market regulator AMF has fined BNP Paribas Securities Services €1 (...)

Class actions have had limited success since they were introduced into French law in 2016 – only (...)

Our Partners Stéphan Alamowitch, Xavier Marchand and Jérôme Michel received the following rankings: Project finance: advising banks (...)

Employees who post information regarding their company on their “private” Facebook page may be terminated for willful (...)

Labor-management relations are often treated as an afterthought in M&A deals. And yet, over and above the (...)

Our Partners Serge Durox, Myriam de Gaudusson, Michel Sapin and Patrick Thiébart received the following rankings: Data (...)

On October 21, 2020, the Commercial Court of Nantes ordered the sale of the Aries Alliance group, (...)

Our Partners Yam Atallah, Lionel Lesur, Alexandre Marque, Numa Rengot and their team ranked among the leading (...)

Our partners Stéphan Alamowitch, Serge Durox, Myriam de Gaudusson, Jérôme Michel and Patrick Thiébart received the following (...)

Europe has seen a spate of money laundering scandals in recent years, none more notorious that the (...)

Click HERE to read the column by our Restructuring partner Numa Rengot, published in Caractère magazine’s November (...)

Our Partners Myriam de Gaudusson et Patrick Thiébart and the Labor and Employment Law team received the (...)

Lawyers have to be ever more creative and resourceful to help businesses overcome the challenges posed by (...)

Franklin partner Numa Rengot, along with KPMG France Head of Restructuring Pascal Bonnet, Orapi Group CEO Guy (...)

France’s Constitutional Council has upheld the constitutionality of the provisions governing applications for interim relief from breach (...)

To address the specific risk posed by correspondent banking, the law enacting the fifth European anti-money laundering (...)

Column by partner Numa Rengot and Jean Dizabeau from our Restructuring – Corporate Recovery – Distressed M&A (...)

Le Monde du Droit magazine interviewed Lionel Lesur, who recently joined Franklin as partner in its Corporate (...)

According to a recent study, over one in five workers (25.3%) have telecommuted since the beginning of (...)

In France, the legal working time duration is 35 hours a week. Unless a company-wide agreement or (...)

Our partner Numa Rengot is quoted in L’Opinion magazine’s August 25 issue on court-ordered liquidations. L’Opinion analyses (...)

AEW has acquired from Sareas Immobilier (a Jaulin real estate group subsidiary) a speculative 9,984 sq. m. (...)

Column by partner Serge Durox and of counsel Violaine Brille, from our Regulatory & Compliance – Banking (...)

Mayday Mag has interviewed Numa Rengot, the partner in charge of our Restructuring – Corporate Recovery – (...)

Our partners François Verdot, Jérémy Chiche, Jérôme Michel, Stéphan Alamowitch and their departments Real Estate, Public Law (...)

In May 2020, the French securities regulator (AMF) looked into the impact of customer profiling technologies used (...)

Best Lawyers®, with its print partner in France, French business magazine Les Echos, has just released the (...)

Article quoting Anne-Solène Hardouin published in Le Journal du Photovoltaïque magazine’s April-September issue. The Energy and Climate (...)

Labor and employment lawyers have played a key role throughout the health crisis, giving emergency advice to (...)

As France is returning to a kind of normal life after a 2-month lockdown period, Franklin employment (...)

Watch our labor and employment law associate Silvia Rumanescu‘s interview on the TV program “Vos Droits” aired (...)

Our partner Myriam de Gaudusson is quoted in an article in Le Figaro of May 16. “The (...)

Article by Stephan Alamowitch published in Le Monde du Droit, May 7, 2020. Stephan Alamowitch discusses the (...)

Questions Answers Why negotiating a CPA ? CPA stands for “Collective Performance Agreement”. This legal tool (...)

In DAF Magazine’s April 28 issue, partner Numa Rengot advises CFOs on what measures to take. After (...)

Our partner Myriam de Gaudusson is quoted in an article in Le Figaro of April 27. “To (...)

Franklin partners Myriam de Gaudusson and Numa Rengot are quoted in an article in Les Echos of (...)

Partner Myriam de Gaudusson is quoted in an article in Le Figaro of April 25. “This year’s (...)

How to hold labor-management committee meetings during lockdown? Can staff representatives visit premises where employees are present? (...)

Partner Numa Rengot is quoted in an article on company insolvency in L’Opinion du 3 avril 2020. (...)

Five new ordinances have been published in the Official Gazette on 2nd April 2020 and entered into (...)

The table below summarizes the short-time working scheme for companies whose activity is impacted by Covid-19 as (...)

Partner Myriam de Gaudusson is quoted in the April-May issue of Courrier Cadres, in an article on (...)

Franklin is proud to have been honored in Chambers Global and Chambers Europe 2020 practice guides. Congratulations (...)

The Emergency Health Law No. 2020-290 of 23 March 2020 authorizes the Government to take, by means (...)

The table below summarizes the short-time working scheme for companies whose activity is impacted by Covid-19. It (...)