Commercial / Sales Agent

Commercial Agency and EU Competition Law

A genuine commercial agency largely escapes the prohibition on anti-competitive agreements, because the agent acts as the prolongation of the principal's own un

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Exclusivity and Non-Compete Clauses in French Commercial Agency

A French commercial agent is an independent professional, free in principle to take on other principals — but not competitors, and not without limits. Exclusivi

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Selling in France: Agent, Distributor or Subsidiary?

A foreign company that wants to sell in France has three main routes: appoint a commercial agent, appoint a distributor, or set up its own French subsidiary. Th

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French Agency Law vs the UK Commercial Agents Regulations 1993

France and the United Kingdom transposed the same European Directive, and both chose the compensation system rather than the capped indemnity. Yet the sums an a

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