Covid-19: partial unemployment

Under French law, the employer may place his employees in a position of partial unemployment (so called ‘activité partielle’ when the company is forced to reduce or temporarily suspend its activity for one of the following reasons: 1° The economic situation; 2°...

Covid-19: impact on commercial leases

Last update: 6 April 2020 Do tenants still have to pay their rent? This is the main question that our clients have been asking themselves and our team since the Government imposed the shutdown of “non-essential businesses” since 16 March 2020 and the...

Strengthening control of foreign investments in France

By decision and decree of 31 December 2019, published in the Official Journal of the French Republic on 1 January 2020, the French government strengthened the control system of foreign investments in France coming into force on 1 April 2020. Below, a short update on...