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PRESS RELEASE - DELSOL Avocats announces the appointment of three new Counsels

DELSOL Avocats is delighted to announce the promotion to Counsel status of three lawyers : Caroline Da Lage (Mergers & Acquisitions - Corporate Law), Jessica Neufville (Employment Law – Social welfare law, Distressed companies - Restructuring) and Arnaud Laroche (Non-profit Organisations - Social and solidarity-based entrepreneurship)....

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Biosimilar medicines - Recent regulatory developments in the European Union and France

What is a biosimilar product ? A biosimilar is a biological medicine (i.e., a medicine whose active substance is made by a living organism) highly similar to another already approved biological medicine (the « reference medicine »EMA, [1]) . According to the European Medicines Agency (« EMA »), biosimilar medicines have become major therapeutic...

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European Union and digital platform workers : France rejects the presumption of salaried status !

Digital platforms are major players in our economy and this fact caught the attention of the European institutions. At the heart of their business model is the involvement of platform workers, to whom these companies subcontract all or part of a service. According to Brussels, there are 28 million platform workers in the Member States, 5.5...

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The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA)

Before 2024, there was no uniform federal procedure in the United States for reporting beneficial ownership. As we step into 2024, the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) comes into effect, requiring a wide range of businesses to disclose their beneficial ownership details to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), a division of the...

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Documents provided to French employees must be written in French

« Every man has two countries : his own and France. » – John F. Kennedy said that to Charles De Gaulle in 1961 while he was in Paris. This is particularly accurate when it comes to employment law. Indeed, Article L. 1321-6 of the French Labor Code provides that any document containing employee obligations or that is necessary for an employee to...

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Arbitration in post-acquisition disputes

Share and asset acquisitions can give rise to a series of post-transaction disputes, including claims with regard to alleged breaches in representations and warranties, earn-out provisions, post-closing purchase price adjustments and non-compete provisions. Arbitration is increasingly used to resolve such disputes and arbitration clauses are...

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