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Our client

An agency that offers logistics services, including corporate addresses, accommodation, sub-letting offices, switch board services, secretarial services, administrative and conference organisations services among others.

The context

In a very unstable property rental environment, a company that leases a business premises received notice without possibility of renewal and was offered compensation for the eviction.  The owner intended to terminate the lease in anticipation of a future demolition and reconstruction of the building, followed by its sale.

The tenant sought other rental possibilities and signed another lease with another company, and did not inform his landlord whilst postponing his eviction. Before leaving the premises, the landlord, whose projects had failed, used his withdrawal rights to propose a new lease with at a higher rent. The tenant, who had no choice but to leave since he had signed for another lease, feared he would lose his eviction compensation.

The course of action

We undertook the appropriate legal actions and before the French Supreme Court, we even managed to obtain a ruling against the binding precedent that a tenant cannot contest a landlord’s withdrawal rights. We secured our client’s eviction allowance based on an audit we had conducted, and obtained his security deposit.

The result

Our client moved into the new premises and received the eviction allowance for the breach of contract.

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