Legal news (2025)

DELSOL Avocats is delighted to have been included in 35 categories in the first edition of the Best Law Firms™ – France rankings (by Best Lawyers). Biotechnology and Life Sciences Practice Construction Law Corporate Law Information Technology Law Insolvency and Reorganization Law Litigation Mergers and Acquisitions Law Private Equity Law Real...

In a judgment dated September 4th, 2025 [1] , the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) provided major clarifications regarding the concept of personal data. In this case, the Court was asked to rule, in particular, on the qualification, in terms of the definition of personal data, of comments made by individuals to a controller (the...

On 9 September, in accordance with the Regulation on artificial intelligence (“AI Act”) [2], the French Ministry of Economy and Finance unveiled the list of national authorities responsible for artificial intelligence and the division of their respective powers [3]. The diagram presented by Bercy distinguishes between the authorities...

In a ruling dated September 3, 2025 [4] , the General Court of the European Union (“GCEU”) dismissed the appeal brought by the French member of parliament Philippe Latombe, seeking annulment of the “Data Privacy Framework” established by the European Commission’s adequacy decision of July 10, 2023, allowing the transfer of personal data from the...

DELSOL Avocats, a multi-disciplinary business law firm that assists its clients both in France and abroad, announces the arrival of Hélène Laborde as a partner in the "Real Estate - Construction" department. Hélène joins the firm with a senior associate, Jordan Sochay, and will support Nathalie Peyron’s practice, which focuses on construction law...

On 10 July 2025, the code of practice (“Code”) [6] for general purpose artificial intelligence models (“GPAI models”) was published. Provided for in Article 56 of Regulation 2024/1689 on Artificial Intelligence (“AI Act”), the Code forms part of the regulation’s phased implementation and is intended to help GPAI model providers comply with their...

On June 26th, 2025, the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) announced the launch of the Privacy Auditing of AI Models (PANAME) project — which it will lead and legally frame — with the goal of developing a tool that can test the confidentiality of artificial intelligence models (“AI Model(s)”). This initiative comes against the backdrop of EU...

On 10 May 2023, the European Union took a major step forward in tackling gender pay inequalities with the adoption of Directive (EU) 2023/970. France must transpose the Directive into national law by 7 June 2026. A draft bill is expected around September 2025, with adoption likely by end of the year. The Directive introduces new obligations...

On July 1st 2025, the Minister for Health and Access to Care, Yannick Neuder, presented the national strategy for artificial intelligence (AI) and healthcare data [9] ("Strategy") at an exceptional Strategic Committee meeting. Set up to take advantage of the development of AI in the healthcare field (e.g., improving the quality of care,...

DELSOL Avocats is pleased to announce the appointment of six associates as Counsel : Eleonora Bufalini (Real Estate - Construction), Maïlys de Meyer (Wealth law & taxation and Corporate Taxation), Marie d’Ozouville (Non-Profit Organizations - Social and solidarity-based Entrepreneurship), Jennifer Pereira-Chevallier (Public Law), Gabriela...

1. The Fairness Tax The Fairness Tax was a tax of 5.15% due by large companies that distributed profits that had not been subject to the standard rate of corporate income tax due to the notional interest deduction and/or losses carried forward by the company. Despite numerous reservations expressed at the time by the legislation section of...

In a ruling dated June 18, 2025 [12], the Social Chamber of the Court of Cassation held that an employee’s right of access to his professional emails covered not only metadata but also the content of the emails. Called upon to rule on the scope of the right of access in a dispute between an employee and his employer in the context of his...

On June 19, 2025, the French data protection authority (CNIL) published two new practical guidelines [15] [16] detailing its recommendations regarding the use of legitimate interest as a legal basis for developing artificial intelligence systems (“AIS”), particularly in cases involving the harvesting of data available online (web scraping)....

The Draft Economic Life Simplification Bill, passed by the French National Assembly on June 17th, 2025, seeks to promote French innovation in the healthcare sector by easing both the practical conditions for conducting researches in France and the administrative formalities that accompany it. Indeed, the very name of the title - “Simplify to...

On June 6, 2025, the European Commission launched a public consultation to gather feedback from stakeholders (e.g. providers and deployers of high-risk AI systems, industry organisations, independent experts, public authorities) on the implementation of the provisions applicable to high-risk AI systems (“Consultation”), as set out in Regulation...

In a decision dated May 15, 2025 [19], the CNIL imposed a fine on the company SOLOCAL MARKETING SERVICES (“Solocal company”) for failing to comply with regulations related to commercial prospecting and for breaching the obligation to demonstrate data subjects’ consent to the processing of their data. Solocal company, which operates in the field...

1. Expatriates are now impatriates For nearly 40 years, Belgium attracted foreign workers through a special tax regime for expatriate executives, known as “expats.” Approximately 20,000 executives and researchers benefited from this special tax regime until 2022. Under the former regime, employers could provide tax-exempt allowances, but most...

The magazine Le Point has published its ranking of law firms in France, which is based on recommendations. General counsels were able to rate the firms they work with and lawyers were able to indicate which firms they would recommend to their clients. DELSOL Avocats’ expertise is recommended in Compliance Healthcare law Commercial, business...

DELSOL Avocats is proud to be ranked in 8 Legal 500 EMEA 2025 categories : Construction – Tier 3 Data privacy and data protection – Tier 3 Employment – Tier 4 Industry focus : Healthcare and life sciences – Tier 2 Mergers & Acquisitions – Tier 5 Private equity : venture/growth capital – Tier 3 Tax - Tier 5 The regions – Tier 1 DELSOL Avocats...