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Article L812-1 of the French Commercial code

Supervisory receivers (mandataires judiciaires) are agents, natural or legal persons, appointed by court order to represent creditors and to carry out the liquidation of a company under the conditions defined by Title II of Book VI. The tasks involved in carrying out their mandate are the personal responsibility of the mandataires judiciaires appointed by the court. However, they may delegate all or part of these tasks to a salaried judicial…

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Article L812-2 of the French Commercial code

I.-No one may be appointed in court to perform the duties of a judicial representative unless they are registered on the list drawn up for this purpose by a national commission. II.-However, the court may, after obtaining the opinion of the public prosecutor, appoint as a judicial representative a natural person who can demonstrate particular experience or qualifications with regard to the nature of the case and who meets the…

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Article L812-3 of the French Commercial code

No one may be entered on the list by the commission unless he or she meets the following conditions: 1° Be French or a national of a Member State of the European Community or of a State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area; 2° Not have been the perpetrator of acts contrary to honour or probity which have given rise to a criminal conviction; 3° Have not…

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Article L812-4 of the French Commercial code

The national commission, on its own initiative or at the request of the Minister of Justice, the President of the Conseil national des administrateurs judiciaires et des mandataires judiciaires, the Government Commissioner or the Public Prosecutor of the jurisdiction in which the judicial representative is based, may, by reasoned decision and after giving the interested party notice to submit its observations, remove from the list referred to in Article L….

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Article L812-5 of the French Commercial code

Court-appointed representatives may form legal entities among themselves for the joint exercise of their profession, with the exception of legal forms that confer the status of trader on their partners. They may also be members of an economic interest grouping or a European economic interest grouping or partners in a holding company governed by Title IV of Act no. 90-1258 du 31 décembre 1990 relative à l’exercice sous forme de…

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Article L812-5-1-A of the French Commercial code

The court-appointed agent may practise his profession within the framework of a société pluri-professionnelle d’exercice, provided for in Title IV bis of Law no. 90-1258 of 31 December 1990 relating to the practice in the form of companies of liberal professions subject to a legislative or regulatory status or whose title is protected and to companies for the financial participation of liberal professions, the purpose of which is the joint…

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Article L812-5-1 of the French Commercial code

The judicial representative may exercise his profession as an employee of a natural or legal person registered on the list provided for in Article L. 812-2. A natural person registered on this list may not employ more than two salaried judicial representatives. A legal entity registered on the said list may not employ more than twice the number of salaried judicial representatives than the number of associated judicial representatives practising…

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Article L812-6 of the French Commercial code

The files monitored by the judicial representative or the person mentioned in III of article L. 812-2 who leaves office, for whatever reason, shall be distributed by the court among the other agents or, where the conditions are met, among the persons mentioned in III of Article L. 812-2 within three months of leaving office. However, in the interests of the proper administration of justice, the court may authorise the…

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