BOOK II: Commercial companies and economic interest groupings.

The right of withdrawal provided for in Article L. 236-40 shall apply to all the units or shares held by the member on the date of his request.

I.-A request by members to exercise their right of withdrawal provided for in Article L. 236-40 shall be made within ten days of the date of the decision referred to in Article L. 236-2. This request shall be sent to the company by electronic means to the address indicated by the company or by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt sent to the company’s registered office. This request must be…

The buyback offer referred to in Article L. 236-40 shall be paid by the company no later than two months after the effective date of the transaction determined in accordance with Article L. 236-44.

I.-Any dispute concerning the price stated in the repurchase offer referred to in Article L. 236-40 shall be brought before the court within whose jurisdiction the registered office of the company is located, within the time limit referred to in the third paragraph of II of Article R. 236-26. All members referred to in Article L. 236-40 who are interested in the sale of their units or shares shall be…

Each company taking part in the cross-border merger shall provide the registrar responsible for the supervision referred to in Article L. 236-42 with a file containing the following documents and information: 1° The draft terms of cross-border merger, mentioning in particular the information relating to the procedures for determining employee participation; >The draft terms of cross-border merger, mentioning in particular the information relating to the procedures for determining employee participation…

I.-The audit provided for in Article L. 236-42 shall be carried out within three months of receipt of the copy of the minutes of the meeting referred to in Article L. 236-9 or, in the absence of a meeting, of the date on which the competent body decided on the merger. The Registrar may extend the period provided for in the first paragraph for a period not exceeding three months….

Each company taking part in the cross-border merger shall submit to the registrar responsible for the supervision referred to in Article L. 236-43 a file containing, in addition to the certificate of compliance issued by the competent authority, where applicable the registrar referred to in Article L. 236-42, and dating from less than six months, the draft terms of cross-border merger approved by the competent body of each of the…

The inspection provided for in article L. 236-43 shall be carried out within fifteen days of receipt of all the documents mentioned in article R. 236-32.

Any appeal against the decisions of the Registrar in respect of the control operations referred to in Articles L. 236-42, L. 236-43 and R. 236-30 shall be lodged under the conditions and according to the procedures of article R. 123-139 of the French Commercial Code.

A creditor’s objection to the cross-border merger, under the conditions provided for by Article L. 236-15, shall be lodged within three months of the last publication or the making available to the public of the draft terms of cross-border merger on the website of each of the companies prescribed by Article R. 236-2 or, where applicable, by Article R. 236-3. The representatives of the bondholders’ group may object to the…