You are planning to launch your startup in France, to open a subsidiary of your tech company in France, to join an innovative French company as an employee and you are wondering which residence permit to apply for? Generally speaking, our firm recommends that you apply for a residence permit called “Passeport Talent“. There are many advantages to this residence permit: your residence permit is valid for 4 years (it is not necessary to apply for a renewal every year at the Prefecture) and can be renewed; your family automatically benefits from this residence permit (spouse and minor childre ..read more

The 2nd Economic Crime Conference 23 June from 4pm–6pm CET / 7am–9am PST Aliant is delighted to announce its second International Economic Crime Conference on the 23 June 2022, which will focus on current global trends in sanctions and Asset Recovery.  The Expert Panel will look at the impact of the current Ukraine-Russia war and the development in the sanctions arena, which has impacted on many global businesses. The Experts will provide practitioner views from Italy, UK, USA and India. Speaker Jurisdiction Topic Time Jacob Stein, Chairman / Aliant  United S ..read more

The principle is provided for in article 1358 of the Civil Code, according to which “except in case where the law provides otherwise, proof may be provided by any means”. On the basis of this principle, the case law of the social chamber regularly recalls that in labor matters, evidence is free for all parties to the dispute. The Social Chamber, however, clarified that this rule does not allow the production of evidence obtained by an illicit process, which in particular refers to surveillance measures put in place by the employer without the employee’s knowledge. Indeed, if the evidence is ..read more

The Covid-19 pandemic has raised a world-wide health emergency. The pandemic affected and continues to affect not only everyone’s day-to-day activities but also different sectors of economy, including commercial real estate market. In this webinar, real estate lawyers will cover this precise topic how to “Navigate Real Estate in a Post-Covid Market”. Experts from Finland, Italy, France, Cyprus and the United States will answer questions relevant to clients and will explain the situation of real estate markets after the Covid-19 Pandemic. This will be an engaging, interactive-style webi ..read more

Asked for a preliminary ruling from an Antwerp court, the CJEU ruled in particular on the systematic collection of IP addresses. This was an intellectual property rights holder whose copyrighted work had been shared over a peer-to-peer network. The holder of these rights systematically collected the IP addresses of infringers in order to request their identification data from access providers. In a judgment of June 17, 2021 (case C-597/19), the CJEU established three conditions of Article 6.1.f of the GDPR so that the processing of personal data is lawful: the processing of personal data m ..read more

At the end of 2018, a company received an anonymous email saying asking to pay an amount of one million euros to various bitcoin accounts. The attacker claimed to have a lot of confidential information of the company. After investigations, including petitions to the court to identify the attacker, the victim company identified one of its former employees (its technical director) and filed a complaint against him. The former collaborator admitted the facts. In December 2019, the correctional court of Nanterre (France) sentenced him to six months suspended imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 eu ..read more

The law of May 22, 2019 relating to the action plan for the growth and transformation of companies, the “PACTE law”, covers many areas of application with the objective of giving companies the means to adapt to an increasingly competitive market by simplifying, clarifying and modernizing the standards relating to surety and insolvency proceedings. This law authorized the government to transpose by ordinance, within the French legal system, the European directive 2019/1023 of June 20, 2019. This directive is the first step towards harmonization and eventually standardization at the European ..read more