Public & Administrative Law

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Administrative decisions’ legal regime and administrative documentation

• a French utility on the enforcement of statute of limitations rules (voidness) to a variety of administrative acts in a complex permitting and litigious procedure (building permit, environmental permit, expropriation permit)

• various foreign industrial companies on the transfer of administrative permits (mining, nuclear activities, import of sensitive substances) (procedure, credentials, financial securities, etc.)

• a French industrial company on the challenge to the disclosure of an administrative circular likely to carry public order disruptions (transportation of nuclear materials)

• various clients on issues relating to the access to documents held by administrative authorities

Public domain regime

• an American industrial company on the transfer between industrial operators of temporary public domain occupation permits (notification, notice period, discretionary prerogatives of the public domain management entity, computation and revision of occupation fees)

• a French hotel investor on the fate and legal regime of existing occupation contracts on the occasion of the transfer (déclassement) of public domain properties to the private domain regime (civil leases or commercial leases)

• a French highway concessionaire on prerogatives of highway concessionaries against occupants in case of dilapidations committed on the public domain managed by concessionaries on behalf of the State

• a UK outlet stores management company on the prerogatives of local governments regarding the duties imposed upon private investors to finance structural improvements on public thoroughfares

• a French industrial company on transfers of real estate pertaining to the private domain of municipalities (for the creation of industrial buffer zones)

• a financial institution of the granting of temporary authorization for the occupation of military premises

Liability of public authorities

• several European trucking companies on the liability of the State on nonfeasance grounds based on the failure to secure freedom of circulation on national roads on the occasion of a truckers’ strike and to abide by EU principles thereon

• an agency of the French State on the liability of the State for delayed action in a matter involving the absence of clean-up measures having potentially led to involuntary harm to a third party

• a French utility company on the duty of the State to remove of unexploded ordnances free of charge

Public service issues

• a French industrial company on the ability for civil servants to combine civil service and private remunerated private undertakings (hierarchical approval, duration, monetary limitation, ethics committee approval, etc.)

• a French State agency on the combination of disciplinary sanctions and criminal prosecution against civil servants

• a civil servant in the context of disciplinary action in a matter involving the alleged illegal attribution of public procurement contracts to relatives

Local governments law

• a municipality on its ability to regulate the access to non-partisan public demonstrations

• a solar farm developer on the ability and lawfulness for a municipality to receive grants and/or in-kind donations therefrom

• a municipality on its ability to act in lieu of the State in the context of an environmental situation requiring immediate action

Finance

• an American manufacturer with facilities in France on the subsidization of the modernization of its sites (from the State, Region and Department)

• a French Industrial company on the securitization of receivables held against municipalities and inter-municipal entities in the management of household waste

Control of foreign investments law

• a third country (Japanese) investor in the acquisition of an activity with dual-use technology ramifications (negotiations with the French DoD and Ministry of Finance and approval)

• a third country (American) investor in the acquisition of sensitive activities in the area of airport services