: Gide advised Crédit Agricole SA on the sale to the Holmarcom group (Holmarcom Finance City) of the second and final 15% tranche of its stake in Crédit du Maroc, a Moroccan bank listed on the Casablanca stock exchange. This transaction follows the sale by Crédit Agricole SA of the first tranche of 63.7% of its stake in Crédit du Maroc on 6 December 2022. Following this transaction, Crédit Agricole no longer holds any shares in Crédit du
: Article rédigé par Jérémie Mancel-Cottrel, avocat associé en droit fiscal, dans Option Finance. Le crédit d’impôt recherche (CIR) est un outil puissant d’aide à la R&D pour les entreprises. Ce dispositif permet en effet de bénéficier d’un crédit d’impôt correspondant à 30 % du montant des dépenses de recherches engagées par l’entreprise jusqu’à 100 millions […] The post Contrôle du CIR : au-delà de l’éligibilité des projets, la nécessité de soigner la justification de la base de calcul du crédit d’impôt appeared first on Alerion Avocats Paris
: A bank that agrees to grant credit to a client is bound by certain obligations. Failure to meet these obligations may give rise to quasi-delictual civil liability. In the context of so-called “regulated” credit — such as mortgage loans and consumer credit, both of which are governed by Book VII of the Code of Economic... Continue Reading → The post Bank Liability When Granting Credit: 10 Key Principles of Belgian Banking Law appeared first on Banking and Finance law in Belgium
: Key Takeaways: In a revealing study by Fair4All Finance, the not-for-profit financial inclusion organization, it has been discovered that women, once rejected for credit or loans, are more likely than men to perceive “no” as a final verdict. As we celebrate International Women’s Day, the findings shed light on the gender credit crunch, emphasizing the need for addressing financial inequalities faced by women. Breaking Down the Gender Credit Crunch: A Comprehensive Analysis Barriers to Credit Applications: The study, polling 3,101 adults across the UK, uncovered that over a third of women (36%) are deterred from applying for credit due to The post The Gender Credit Crunch: How Women Navigate Financial Rejection appeared first on Business Today
: Article rédigé par Sadri Desenne, associé au sein du département financement, dans Finance & Gestion la revue des dirigeants financier. Les contrats de crédits syndiqués encadrent usuellement les opérations de croissance externe de l’emprunteur en limitant la valeur d’entreprise des cibles éligibles acquises. Ce cadre restreint la stratégie de développement de l’emprunteur. Nous rappelons ainsi quelques […] The post Valorisation et croissance externe en matière de financement syndiqué appeared first on Alerion Avocats Paris
: Sadri Desenne, avocat associé en financement chez Alerion Avocats, signe un article publié dans Option Finance consacré à l’émergence d’un cadre structurant pour la finance de transition labellisée. Le 16 octobre 2025, les trois grandes associations internationales de place du crédit – APLMA (Asia Pacific Loan Market Association), LMA et LSTA – ont publié un […] The post La finance de transition labellisée : un nouveau cadre au soutien de la finance durable appeared first on Alerion Avocats Paris
: Judge orders $13.4 million in contempt action challenging BlueHippo hype lfair May 2, 2016 | 10:52AM Judge orders $13.4 million in contempt action challenging BlueHippo hype By Lesley Fair Animation fans remember the ballet-dancing pink hippos in Fantasia . In Egyptian mythology, the god of disorder was depicted as a red hippo. And many consumers – especially those already in financial distress – were drawn in by national TV and radio ads for BlueHippo, a company that claimed to finance the purchase of computers and other electronics for people with “less than perfect credit, bad credit, no credit.” A $13.4 million ruling by a United States District Judge in an FTC contempt action sends a message to hippos of all hues (and businesses) about the FTC’s commitment to effective order enforcement. In 2008, the FTC sued BlueHippo Funding and BlueHippo Capital for, among other things, not delivering ordered merchandise, failing to make disclosures required by the Truth in Lending Act and Regulation Z, and illegally[...]
: Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson today announced he has appointed Taylor C. Hoogendoorn as Deputy Director of the Bureau of Competition and Katherine White as Deputy Director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection. Hoogendoorn is a talented litigator with expertise in a wide range of litigation, including antitrust, tort, contractual, energy, and intellectual property matters. Hoogendoorn joins the FTC after spending time in private practice at a law firm in Houston. He clerked for the Hon. Samuel A. Alito Jr. on the Supreme Court of the United States; the Hon. Gregory G. Katsas on the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit; and the Hon. J. Harvie Wilkinson III on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Hoogendoorn holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, where he won the Morris Tyler Moot Court of Appeals and served on the Yale Law Journal, and a B.B.A. with majors in Economics, Finance, Mathematics, and Business Fellows from Baylor University. While at Baylor, h[...]