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Initially presented during an international conference held on April 29, 2009 in Washington, D.C.,

Catherine Nommick assisted Sword Group, a global leader in high value applications, in connection with the accretive disposal of its Scottish services subsidiary Sword Business Technology Solutions. Read the Sword Group’s press release.

Luc Attlan, from the Chicago office of the American law firm Drinker Biddle & Reath, spent three months working with us at our Lyon office as part of an exchange program between the two firms.

Only three years following the Law n° 2005-845 dated July 26, 2005 relating to the safeguard of companies, Order 2008-1345 dated December 18, 2008 and its implementing decree dated February 12, 2009 once again reform French bankruptcy laws with regard to companies in difficulty.

On April 28, 2009, the Lyon Court of Appeals overturned a judgment in its entirety rendered by the Lyon Criminal Court finding the head of an oncology department guilty of moral harassment of several colleagues.

Arrêt de la Cour de Cassation du 3 mars 2009 As a continuation of the article on the new maximum payment terms applicable as of January 1, 2009 (see our January 2009 e-newsletter), a recent decision of the French Supreme Court[1] established the principle that a supplier can automatically require payment of late penalties even […]