News Non-profit organizations - Social and solidarity-based entrepreneurship

1st July 2020 - As every year since 2009, DELSOL Avocats launches a call for projects to select the winners of its endowment fund competition. In 2020 the prizes will amount to a total of 35 000€ Created in February 2009, the DELSOL Avocats endowment fund is one of the first created in France. Its purpose is to support the firm’s corporate...

DELSOL Avocats advised C’est qui le patron ?!, a cooperative brand founded by consumers for consumers in 2016 on principles of crowdsourcing and transparency, on the launch of its Consumers and Citizens’ Solidarity Fund. Consumer-driven brand C’est qui le patron ?! has seen sales of its staple food products take off since the beginning of...

Considering the latest developments relating to Covid-19 and government announcements, we would like to inform you with full transparency of the measures we anticipated and implemented within our firm. We have all the IT and technical capacities enabling us to manage files remotely. Dematerialization of both internal process and legal...

DELSOL Avocats advised REALITES, a territorial development group founded in 2003 by CEO Yoann CHOIN-JOUBERT, with over 300 employees on 14 sites, on the setting up of its REALITES endowment fund. REALITES has been listed on the Euronext Growth market since 2014. In creating this new and inclusive structure with funding of close on €5 million...

In the context of the “Parliament for the Future”, Prophil and DELSOL Avocats present the first practical guide to shareholder foundations. It is aimed at entrepreneurs who would like to explore more virtuous models of governance that serve the common good. Particularly well-established in Northern Europe, shareholder foundations are a virtuous...

1 July 2019 – DELSOL Avocats is delighted to announce the following promotions to of-Counsel status : Jean-Baptiste AUTRIC in the Nonprofit Organizations – Social and Solidarity-based Entrepreneurship Department, Virginie DELANNOY in the Real Estate Law Department, and Emmanuel SADORGE in the Nonprofit Organizations – Social and Solidarity-based...

In an interview for the December 2017 issue of Magazine des Professions Financières, Lionel DEVIC looks at the different types of foundations and their benefits for businesses and entrepreneurs. As companies seek to further develop their philanthropy, using the legal structure of a foundation gradually becomes necessary. In the December 2017...

Lionel Devic offers an initial assessment of endowment funds in the magazine Associations Mode d’Emploi (Nov 2017) Following the tenth anniversary of the law enacted on 4 August 2008, which created the new category of not-for-profit organization in the form of an endowment fund, Lionel Devic, a partner and co-head of the Not-for-profit...

In a special article in the October 2017 La Revue Fiscale du Patrimoine, Xavier DELSOL describes the various benefits brought by outsourcing corporate philanthropy to an endowment fund Using an endowment fund for corporate philanthropy has become increasingly frequent. In a special article in the October 2017 issue of La Revue Fiscale du...

"An effective way of strengthening family cohesion - philanthropy can transmit the values of a loved one or honour their memory" : Xavier DELSOL was mentioned as adviser to Jean-Pascal ARCHIMBAUD in an article published in Le Monde on 7 June 2017 In an article published in Le Monde on 7 June 2017 on the use of mechanisms such as foundations...