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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter V: Public limited companies.

Article L225-249

The founders of the company to whom the nullity is attributable and the directors in office at the time when it was incurred may be declared jointly and severally liable for the damage resulting for t…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter V: Public limited companies.

Article L225-253

…the General Meeting, or which entails in advance a waiver of the exercise of such action, shall be deemed to be unwritten. No decision of the General Meeting may have the effect of extinguishing an a…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Changes in share capital and employee share ownership.

Article L225-136

…t to the following conditions: 1° The issue price or the conditions for setting this price shall be determined by the Extraordinary General Meeting on the basis of a report by the Board of Directors o…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Changes in share capital and employee share ownership.

Article L225-140

…ace in subscribing for the new shares or selling the rights. In the latter case, the bare owner may demand that the proceeds of the sale be reinvested. The assets thus acquired are subject to usufruct…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Subscription and purchase of shares by employees.

Article L225-186

Articles L. 225-177 to L. 225-185, L. 22-10-56 and L. 22-10-57 are applicable to investment certificates, cooperative investment certificates and cooperative shareholder certificates.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Changes in share capital and employee share ownership.

Article L225-206

…directly or by a person acting in his own name but on behalf of the company, is prohibited. The founders or, in the case of an increase in capital, the members of the Board of Directors or the Managem…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter V: Public limited companies.

Article L225-250

A liability action based on the cancellation of the company shall lapse under the conditions set out in the first paragraph of article L. 235-13.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter V: Public limited companies.

Article L225-266

…al meeting appoint one or more of them to represent the participants. If no election has yet been made, or if none of the elected proxies is a member of the workers' cooperative, special proxies shall…

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French Commercial codeIn force
TITLE II: Provisions specific to various commercial companies.

Article L226-9

…ments for the year.It receives, at the same time as the statutory auditors, if any, the documents made available to them.It may convene the general meeting of shareholders.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 4: Changes in share capital and employee share ownership.

Article L225-145

…lacement of their shares, an offer to the public other than one of those mentioned in 2° of Article L. 411-2 of the Monetary and Financial Code or in Article L. 411-2-1 of the same code, the capital i…

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