Month: September 2011

BUSINESSES

– Promises and deeds of transfer for lease entitlements and business goodwill
– Managing follow-up of administrative deadlines (building permits).

COMMERCIAL LEASES

Advice (negotiation and preparation):

– Leasing promise, lease, amendment, renewal
– Deposit and first demand guarantee undertakings
– Sub-letting and moveable property leasing
– Notice with or without offer of renewal
– Eligibility for status of commercial lease

Litigation:

– Renewal and non-renewal of commercial leases (fixing new rent, eviction indemnity, etc.)
– Commercial property (eligibility for status of commercial leases)
– Procedure for enforcing the termination clause and eviction.

Lawyers practising in this field: Paul Ricard, Linda Capoano-Le Pen, Alice Charrière, Clémence Colin, Delphine Roué

ACTING IN THE FOLLOWING FIELDS

– Trademarks
– Designs and Models
– Patents
– Copyright
– Company Names, Trade Names, Trade Signs
– Domain Names
– Unfair Competition and Parasitism.

PRACTICE

Litigation:

– Infringement/invalidity proceedings
– Claims
– Forfeiture proceedings
– Emergency relief (petitions for confiscation of works infringing copyright, interlocutory injunctions)
– Unfair competition and commercial parasitism proceedings
– Proceedings pertaining to domain names before the Courts, WIPO, AFNIC

Advice:

– Preparing and checking licensing agreements, rights assignment deeds
– Legal opinions, pre-dispute consultations.

Lawyers practising in this field: Martine Karsenty-Ricard, Béatrice Moreau-Margotin, Jean-Philippe Arroyo, Bénédicte Lhomme-Houzai, Maïa Merli, Tristan Montaigne, Delphine Roblin-Lapparra, Nathalie Tourrette

LITIGATION

– Actions in liability for website editors and hosting companies, internet service providers
– Petitions for identification of website editors and hosts, internet service providers
– Civil and criminal litigation regarding online gaming and betting ;
– Litigation relating with software and databases.

ADVICE

– Preparing website general conditions of use
– Preparing general conditions for e-commerce
– Examination of issues regarding the French Data Protection Act, management of personal data; formalities vis-à-vis the French National Commission for Information Technology and Civil Liberties (CNIL)
– Preparing and checking contracts with internet service providers (hosting companies, advertising agencies) ;
– Drafting and negociation of contracts in the IT and internet sectors (software licences, SaaS contracts…) ;
– Legal opinions, pre-dispute consultations.

Lawyers practising in this field: Jean-Philippe Arroyo, Bénédicte Lhomme-Houzai, Maïa Merli, Tristan Montaigne, Delphine Roblin-Lapparra

LITIGATION

– Disputes on exclusive/selective distribution contracts, commercial agencies, franchises
– Breakdown of established commercial relationships
– Proceedings before the French Competition Authority and European Commission: horizontal and vertical agreements, abuse of dominant market position
– Sales law (guarantee of hidden defects, of conformity)
– Consumer protection law (games, lotteries, advertising, promotional operations, labelling, Toubon law).

ADVICE

– Preparing and checking distribution contracts
– Preparing and checking general sales conditions, ‘single agreements’
– Legal opinions, pre-dispute consultations.

Lawyers practising in this field: Martine Karsenty-Ricard, Linda Capoano-Le Pen, Béatrice Moreau-Margotin, Jean-Philippe Arroyo, Alice Charrière, Clémence Colin, Delphine Roué, Bénédicte Lhomme-Houzai, Maïa Merli, Tristan Montaigne, Delphine Roblin-Lapparra, Nathalie Tourrette, Anne Bellargent, Thomas Ricard, Benjamin Mathieu

LITIGATION

– Acting for the defence or claims of the insured or the insurer in domestic or international disputes
– Enforcement of insurance guarantees (liability insurance, damages insurance)
– Claims against co-insurers
– Industrial risks
– Product liability (civil and criminal litigation)
– Medical liability
– Environmental liability;
– Assistance for clients during expert assessments.

ADVICE

– Risk assessment and analysis
– Preparing legal opinions for foreign jurisdictions
– Study and negotiation of policies and guarantees
– Pre-dispute consultation.

Lawyer practising in this field: : Paul Ricard, Benjamin Mathieu, Thomas Ricard

LITIGATION

– Actions for liability of carriers and other entities intervening in the logistics chain
– Breach of contract
– Ownership and garnishment claims

ADVICE

– Preparing and checking transport and logistics agreements
– Risk analysis
– Legal opinions, pre-dispute consultations

Lawyer practising in this field: : Paul Ricard

LITIGATION

– Defamation, insult and provoking discrimination, hatred or violence
– Editorial responsibility in the press, audiovisual industry and online communications
– Invasion of privacy, abuse of rights to images and names
– Comparative and/or misleading advertising

ADVICE

– Preparing and checking agreements authorising use of personality rights (rights to image and rights to name)
– Preparing and checking advertising agency and advertising space purchasing contracts
– Risk assessment for advertising campaigns for tobacco, alcohol or drugs.

Lawyers practising in this field: Martine Karsenty-Ricard, Béatrice Moreau-Margotin, Jean-Philippe Arroyo, Bénédicte Lhomme-Houzai, Maïa Merli, Tristan Montaigne, Delphine Roblin-Lapparra