Our law firm is listed in the ranking “The best law firms in 2020” established by the magazine Le Point (n° 2496, June 25, 2020) in the category of commercial, business and competition law.

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The credit management magazine, Fonction Crédit, publishes an article by our firm in its No. 79 (p. 34): does the state of health emergency exempt one from paying one’s creditors?

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Is resale at a loss still prohibited in France? The answer is yes.

Even though the law has been amended in recent years, resale at a loss is still prohibited, with a few exceptions. However, European legislation raises the question of the validity of the French ban on resale at loss to consumers. Examination of the outlines of this prohibition in an article of our firm published by the website chefdentreprise.com on May 29, 2020.

https://www.chefdentreprise.com/Thematique/juridique-1055/Breves/revente-perte-est-elle-toujours-interdite-348114.htm

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Letter n° 17 –  Current economic law – March / April 2020 –Newsletter of the law firm Henry & Bricogne.

This newsletter presents a selection of the case law in economic law (March / April 2020).

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Does the coronavirus give permission not to pay its creditors?

Even if Covid-19 was a case of force majeure, debtors could not invoke it as a reason for not paying their creditors who had performed their part of the contract. However, the debtors are not powerless to defer payment of the sums due because of the sanitary crisis. Read our Firm’s article on this subject published on the decision-achats.fr website.

https://www.decision-achats.fr/thematique/strategie-achats-1236/breves/coronavirus-donne-permission-pas-payer-ses-creanciers-348737.htm

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Publication of an article written by our law firm in the legal journal Dalloz Actualité Juridique Contrat of March 2020 “Automotive distribution: review of significant case law for the year 2019 ” (Dalloz AJ Contrat, March 2020 n° 3, p. 139).

The 2019 case law year for automotive distribution was particularly interesting. Indeed, with regard to the refusal to contract with authorized repairers, vertical anti-competitive practices has been thoroughly reviewed (agreement, restrictions, market). Moreover, the use of good faith to challenge a refusal to contract has been limited. The Paris Court of Appeal has also handed down an interesting decision concerning the submission of a distributor to a significant imbalance. Automotive distribution has thus made an interesting contribution to the legal discussion (the solutions of which also apply to other distribution sectors).

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Our law firm is once again listed in 2020 in Best Law Firm ranking established by Décideurs Magazine in antitrust and anti-competitive practices as well as distribution law and restrictive practices and commercial litigation.

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Our law firm is ranked third in the “competition law (firms with less than 30 lawyers)” category in the 2020 ranking of Le Monde du Droit magazine (March 19, 2020).

https://www.palmaresdudroit.fr/index.php?option=com_jumi&view=application&fileid=6

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Letter n° 16 –  Current economic law – January/ February 2020 –Newsletter of the law firm Henry & Bricogne.

This newsletter presents a selection of the case law in economic law (January /  February 2020).

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Writing an invoice for a sale or a service is not an insignificant exercise. An article of our firm published by the Commerce Magazine website on March 12, 2020 recalls the mandatory information that must appear on the invoice, two of which were added by Order No. 2019-359 of April 24, 2019.

https://commerce.chefdentreprise.com/Thematique/juridique-1070/Breves/loi-est-plus-exigeante-mentions-obligatoires-facture-347633.htm

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Towards the block exemption for authorised motor vehicle repair contracts?

This question deserves to be asked again. Traditionally, competition authorities consider that each car manufacturer’s share on the market of repair and maintenance of motor vehicles of its brand would be above 30%, which would prohibit authorised car repair contracts to benefit of the block exemption of Regulation 330/2010 dated 20 April 2010. Reassessment of the issue in the light of recent case law and market studies in an article by Xavier Henry published by the Revue Lamy de la Concurrence in its February 2020 issue (RLC 3742 N° 91, p. 38, February 2020).

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