Steering Legal is assisting UDAAC (Union des Actionnaires Minoritaires d'Atos) in an interim injunction to appoint a court-appointed representative to convene a general meeting of the company with a view to changing its governance. The aim of this procedure is to allow the shareholders to change the governance of the company and thus take back control of the decisions affecting the future of ATOS, and thus stop the current dismantling actions organised by the current management. Since the Annual General Meeting of 28 June 2023, UDAAC has noted that the company has carried out or is planning significant transactions without[...]

Aude Chartier joins Steering Legal as a Partner to strengthen its practice in tax law, and more specifically in patrimonial law. Aude Chartier's expertise is mainly focused on French and international wealth taxation for individuals, in both advisory and litigation matters. For her, wealth taxation was an obvious choice to combine her economic and scientific background with the legal complexity of the various project structures she has successfully managed, striving to share her knowledge and put herself at the service of her clients. For more than 10 years, she has developed her expertise in the various areas covered by property[...]

Stéphanie Berland, Partner in charge of Steering Legal IP-IT, Data & Media department, had this year again the privilege to give a lecture at the LL.M. | MBA “European Film Business and Law” class of Erich Pommer Institut gGmbH, in cooperation with Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF and Universität Potsdam, on “Legal framework - Key Market: France”.It has been a pleasure for her to share with students, high-level professionals from the media sector, information and advice on the particularities of the French legal regime applicable to film production and the renowned French film financing system, give a focus on the no less famous “media[...]

Steering Legal IP / IT / Data & Media Department presents legal news of interest in September-October 2023 in IP-Media... Enjoy your reading! Steering Legal_IP Media_Nsl_sept oct 2023_ENG  

Steering Legal IP – IT / Data & Media Department presents legal news of interest in September-Octobe 2023 in Tech-Data… Enjoy your reading! Steering Legal_Tech Data_Nsl_sept oct 2023_ENG  

The IP-IT/ Data & Media department, headed by Stéphanie Berland, is ranked as "Highly Recommended" in the "Film Law" category by Décideurs "Media & Entertainment" magazine 2023. ...

The tax department, headed by Jean-François Bette and Florian Guais, is ranked as "Excellent" in the "Transactional taxation" and "Tax litigation and assistance with recovery" categories, ...

Stéphanie Berland, Partner and Head of IP-IT / Data & Media Department at Steering Legal, was invited to talk at the International Screen Institute “Business and Legal Affairs 2023” course in Vienna, attended by film and audiovisual industry executives to deepen their knowledge of legal issues of the sector. Stéphanie spoke on contracts and legal issues in the development phase, with the “Acquisition of rights on original scripts and existing literary works” and the “Negotiation of underlying works“ in view of producing a film or TV series project. This presentation was part of 5-day course organized by the Screen Institute, a non-profit[...]

Read the analysis of César Solis, on the latest case law about this topic in the September 12, 2023 issue of French employment law leading magazine Jurisprudence Sociale Lamy. ...

Steering Legal IP - IT / Data & Media Department presents legal news of interest from June to August 2023 in Tech-Data… Enjoy your reading! Steering Legal_Tech Data_Nsl_june aug 2023_ENG