EFE Conference: Charles-Emmanuel Prieur to speak at the conference on shareholders’ agreements to be held on February 5, 2026

On the program:

• How can you structure or secure your investments in 2026?
• Enhance the stability of your capital with new mechanisms and clauses
• How to organize the contractual governance of the company and the group?
• Shareholder and employee pacts: how to encourage employee shareholding while controlling risks?
• Shareholder exit restrictions, shareholder agreement pathologies: what new solutions?

Charles-Emmanuel Prieur will focus on key issues for managers, investors and advisors, at the heart of current legal and strategic developments for companies.

Strengthen the stability of your capital by mastering the mechanisms available to you

• Inalienability clauses: what limits? what exceptions?
• Free transfer clauses: how to deal with asset holding companies?
• Pre-emption clause: an essential capital stabilization clause?
• ROFO or ROFR: what’s the difference between these two rights of first refusal? What is the difference with a right of pre-emption?
• Proportional joint transfer clause: what’s the point?
• Joint Assignment Clauses: how to organize the signing of the GAP?
• Development capital transactions: how to reconcile the interests of minority and majority investors?
• KYC / BFT clauses: how to prevent transfers to undesirable third parties?
• Anti-dilution clause, pari passu clause: how do you draft these clauses to maintain your shareholding position?
• What are the differences between a Buy or Sell clause and a Competing Offers or Auction clause?
• Towards a jurisprudential validation of the Texas clause?

Cass. Com. February 25, 2025

• Case law confirms extra-statutory forced assignment clauses
• Exclusion of a managing partner
• The limits of the drag-along clause
• Duration of the shareholders’ agreement – how should the clause be drafted?

A not-to-be-missed conference to anticipate and master the challenges of shareholder agreements.