Nathalie Lefeuvre-Roumanos is an attorney member of the Montpellier Bar. Previously, she was attorney in PwC Law firm in Montpellier, head of the legal department. She is a regular contributor to the review “La Lettre de la Distribution”. Nathalie is graduated from the University of Montpellier (DJCE – specialization certificate in competition Law).
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Facts On June 16, 2013, Pierval entered into a qualified commercial agent contract with X, which will be terminated by the broadcaster on March 1, 2015. On June 1, 2015, the same broadcaster entered into a contract, apparently drafted in similar terms, with LDO. This second contract is also (...)
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Facts. Company C entrusts a commercial agent, a natural person, with the task of marketing its haberdashery, hosiery and textile products in various French departments, without the relations between the parties being formalised in a written contract. Company C complains that the agent breached (...)
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Facts. On 22 April 2015, the EGETRA company signed a commercial agent contract with a natural person agent, with the mission to prospect for the sale of transport and customs services. On 1 February 2017, EGETRA notified the termination of the contract for breach of contract, considering that (...)
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1st species In 2010, the company DIKE DECO gave a mandate to an individual agent to represent it, without exclusivity, in a number of French departments, with a view to promoting the sale of decorative articles. In July 2013, the principal informed its agent that it was taking over the (...)
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Following a change of co-contractor linked to a reorganisation within the principal’s group, relations between the new structure of the principal group and its commercial agent deteriorated sharply. In fact, in the absence of a territorial exclusivity clause, the principal undertakes to approach (...)
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The IKKS company has entrusted REVE with the exclusive mandate to sell children’s clothing and accessories designed and marketed under the IKKS brand in Switzerland and Liechtenstein. After having noted the sale of children’s products under the IKKS brand via the Zalando.ch website to a clientele (...)
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Central payments. Towards a reduction of the business secrecy ?* Following the deterioration of their relationship with the Bati-man brand, member companies terminated their contracts to create a competing network and summoned the franchisor and the network’s central referencing office before (...)
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In this case, the company Citoyens du Monde entrusted the company Bianchi Diffusion with the mandate to market all of its products to medium and large retailers throughout France. In this context, the parties concluded a contract qualified as a contract for the provision of services but (...)
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The date on which claims arise is a key issue in collective proceedings since it makes it possible to distinguish between pre-commencement and post-commencement creditors and to determine the regime for the settlement of the resulting claims. In the present case, the commercial agent, who (...)
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Payments Central. The end of the obligation of accountability ?* A franchisee of a network specialising in do-it-yourself products (Bricorama brand) did not renew the franchise agreement, which had expired, in order to join a competing brand and was sued by the franchisor, who was also acting (...)
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