DELSOL Avocats is proud to be listed in 6 Chambers and Partners 2026 rankings : Construction - Band 3 Corporate/M&A : Mid-Market - Band 2 Corporate/Commercial Litigation : Highly Regarded - Band 2 Pharma/Life sciences - Band 3 Tax - Band 6 General Business Law - Spotlight In addition to these collective rankings, Jeanne BOSSI MALAFOSSE...
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- 2026-02-05
- Henri-Louis DELSOL, Nathalie PEYRON, Jeanne BOSSI MALAFOSSE, Gaëlle MERLIER, Geoffroy GOUBIN
- Mergers & Acquisitions - Corporate law, Civil and commercial litigation, Real estate - Construction, Life sciences, Wealth law & taxation, Corporate taxation, White-Collar crime - Compliance
- 2026-01-23
- Jeanne BOSSI MALAFOSSE, Guillaume BUHAGIAR
- Personal data
On 8 January 2026, the French data protection authority (CNIL) issued two rulings against Free Mobile [1] and Free [2] (the “Companies”), imposing fines of €27 million and €15 million respectively for various breaches of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). In this case, the Companies were alerted in October 2024 that an attacker had...
ReadOn 27 December 2025, Decree No. 2025-1335 [6] (the “Decree”) was published in the French Official Journal. In particular, this Decree : sets out the arrangements for monitoring and supervising compliance with the periodic certification obligation applicable to healthcare professionals ; specifies the procedures applicable in the event of a...
ReadIn a judgment dated September 4th, 2025 [10] , the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) provided major clarifications regarding the concept of personal data. In this case, the Court was asked to rule, in particular, on the qualification, in terms of the definition of personal data, of comments made by individuals to a controller (the...
ReadOn 9 September, in accordance with the Regulation on artificial intelligence (“AI Act”) [11], the French Ministry of Economy and Finance unveiled the list of national authorities responsible for artificial intelligence and the division of their respective powers [12]. The diagram presented by Bercy distinguishes between the authorities...
ReadIn a ruling dated September 3, 2025 [13] , the General Court of the European Union (“GCEU”) dismissed the appeal brought by the French member of parliament Philippe Latombe, seeking annulment of the “Data Privacy Framework” established by the European Commission’s adequacy decision of July 10, 2023, allowing the transfer of personal data from the...
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- Jeanne BOSSI MALAFOSSE, Aura BRAUN
- Personal data, Life sciences
DELSOL Avocats has advised the AGORiA Santé consortium, in partnership with BIOGROUP, on obtaining the CNIL’s (French data protection authoritys) first authorization to combine biology and SNDS (French national health data system) data in a health data warehouse. Created in 2021, the AGORIA Santé consortium comprises AstraZeneca France, Takeda...
Read- 2025-07-18
- Jeanne BOSSI MALAFOSSE, Guillaume BUHAGIAR
- Personal data
On 10 July 2025, the code of practice (“Code”) [15] for general purpose artificial intelligence models (“GPAI models”) was published. Provided for in Article 56 of Regulation 2024/1689 on Artificial Intelligence (“AI Act”), the Code forms part of the regulation’s phased implementation and is intended to help GPAI model providers comply with their...
Read- 2025-07-16
- Jeanne BOSSI MALAFOSSE, Guillaume BUHAGIAR
- Personal data
On June 26th, 2025, the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) announced the launch of the Privacy Auditing of AI Models (PANAME) project — which it will lead and legally frame — with the goal of developing a tool that can test the confidentiality of artificial intelligence models (“AI Model(s)”). This initiative comes against the backdrop of EU...
ReadOn July 1st 2025, the Minister for Health and Access to Care, Yannick Neuder, presented the national strategy for artificial intelligence (AI) and healthcare data [18] ("Strategy") at an exceptional Strategic Committee meeting. Set up to take advantage of the development of AI in the healthcare field (e.g., improving the quality of care,...
Read- 2025-06-24
- Jeanne BOSSI MALAFOSSE, Guillaume BUHAGIAR
- Personal data
In a ruling dated June 18, 2025 [21], the Social Chamber of the Court of Cassation held that an employee’s right of access to his professional emails covered not only metadata but also the content of the emails. Called upon to rule on the scope of the right of access in a dispute between an employee and his employer in the context of his...
Read- 2025-06-23
- Jeanne BOSSI MALAFOSSE, Guillaume BUHAGIAR
- Personal data
On June 19, 2025, the French data protection authority (CNIL) published two new practical guidelines [24] [25] detailing its recommendations regarding the use of legitimate interest as a legal basis for developing artificial intelligence systems (“AIS”), particularly in cases involving the harvesting of data available online (web scraping)....
Read- 2025-06-20
- Jeanne BOSSI MALAFOSSE, Gaëlle MERLIER, Aura BRAUN, Camille NICOLAÏ
The Draft Economic Life Simplification Bill, passed by the French National Assembly on June 17th, 2025, seeks to promote French innovation in the healthcare sector by easing both the practical conditions for conducting researches in France and the administrative formalities that accompany it. Indeed, the very name of the title - “Simplify to...
ReadOn June 6, 2025, the European Commission launched a public consultation to gather feedback from stakeholders (e.g. providers and deployers of high-risk AI systems, industry organisations, independent experts, public authorities) on the implementation of the provisions applicable to high-risk AI systems (“Consultation”), as set out in Regulation...
Read- 2025-06-12
- Philippe DUMEZ, Emmanuel KAEPPELIN, Pierre GOUGÉ, Henri-Louis DELSOL, Xavier DELSOL, Laurent BUTSTRAËN, Alexis BECQUART, Lionel DEVIC, Frédéric SUBRA, Mathieu LE TACON, Delphine BRETAGNOLLE, Philippe PACOTTE, Alexis CHABERT, Stéphane PERRIN, Nathalie PEYRON, Benoît BOUSSIER, Jeanne BOSSI MALAFOSSE, Séverine BRAVARD, Manuel WINGERT, Philippe MALIKIAN, Julien MONSENEGO, Amaury DUMAS-MARZE, Gaëlle MERLIER, Jean-François DEFUDES, Brice BRIEL, Geoffroy GOUBIN, Stanley MITON, Damien REMY, Inès SAINT-LARY, Arthur LAMPERT
DELSOL Avocats is delighted with the individual ranking of 27 of its lawyers in the The Best Lawyers ™ in France ranking, especially as it reflects the recognition of our peers. Alexis BECQUART Non Profit/Charities Law Jeanne BOSSI MALAFOSSE Biotechnology and Life Sciences Practice Information Technology Law Privacy and Data Security Law...
Read- 2025-05-26
- Jeanne BOSSI MALAFOSSE, Guillaume BUHAGIAR
- Personal data
In a decision dated May 15, 2025 [28], the CNIL imposed a fine on the company SOLOCAL MARKETING SERVICES (“Solocal company”) for failing to comply with regulations related to commercial prospecting and for breaching the obligation to demonstrate data subjects’ consent to the processing of their data. Solocal company, which operates in the field...
Read- 2025-05-26
- Delphine BRETAGNOLLE, Jeanne BOSSI MALAFOSSE, Manuel WINGERT, Gaëlle MERLIER, Jessica NEUFVILLE, Aura BRAUN, Marie GARDE
- Employment law - Social welfare law, Distressed companies - Restructuring, Life sciences, Personal data
DELSOL Avocats advised the Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal Toulon - La Seyne-sur-Mer (CHITS) on the takeover of the Sainte-Marguerite clinic in Hyères (south of France) by Almaviva Santé, a group specialising in private hospital services in France and owned by the Kuwaiti Wren House fund. This takeover is part of a disposal plan approved by...
Read- 2025-03-26
- Mathieu LE TACON, Jeanne BOSSI MALAFOSSE, Gaëlle MERLIER
- Mergers & Acquisitions - Corporate law, Employment law - Social welfare law, Wealth law & taxation, Corporate taxation, Real estate - Construction, Life sciences, Personal data
DELSOL Avocats is proud to be ranked in 8 Legal 500 EMEA 2025 categories : Construction – Tier 3 Data privacy and data protection – Tier 3 Employment – Tier 4 Industry focus : Healthcare and life sciences – Tier 2 Mergers & Acquisitions – Tier 5 Private equity : venture/growth capital – Tier 3 Tax - Tier 5 The regions – Tier 1 DELSOL Avocats...
Read- 2025-03-03
- Jeanne BOSSI MALAFOSSE, Aura BRAUN
- Life sciences, Personal data
The decree of February 7, 2025, published in the Official Journal on March 1, expands the list of databases included within the « catalog » of the French National Health Data System (hereinafter referred to as « SNDS »). As a reminder, in accordance with Articles L1461-1 and following of the French Public Health Code, the SNDS is a centralized...
Read- 2025-02-17
- Jeanne BOSSI MALAFOSSE, Aura BRAUN
On February 6, 2025, the European Commission published guidelines on the notion of "AI system" [29] ("Guidelines") as defined by article 3(1) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 on Artificial Intelligence [30] ("AI Act") and clarified by its Recital 12. As a reminder, the AI Act defines an AI system as "a machine-based system that is designed to...
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