Commercial lease

  • Anticipating the end of your commercial lease: renewal, refusal and eviction compensation

    By Yasmine EDDAM
    24 April 2025
    The approach of the end of a commercial lease is a major strategic step for any tenant company, as well as for the owner of the premises. Mastering the day-to-day management of your commercial lease is essential if you are to anticipate this pivotal period as effectively as possible. This is the time when key issues come to the fore: can the tenant stay? Under what conditions? And if renewal is refused, what are the financial consequences? French law, through the status of commercial leases, has put in place a specific mechanism to protect the value of the business being run, in particular through the "right to renewal". However, this right is not absolute and its implementation, or refusal by the lessor, is subject to precise rules and can give rise to complex disputes, sometimes with considerable financial implications, such as the payment of eviction compensation. Understanding these mechanisms is essential if you are to...
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