{"id":29242,"date":"2025-09-09T18:32:52","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T16:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.avocats-lacombe-brisou.fr\/brief-cascading-nullity-after-annulment-of-a-partners-exclusion\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T18:18:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T17:18:22","slug":"brief-cascading-nullity-after-annulment-of-a-partners-exclusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.avocats-lacombe-brisou.fr\/en\/brief-cascading-nullity-after-annulment-of-a-partners-exclusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Brief &#8211; Cascading nullity after annulment of a partner&#8217;s exclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Cass. com., June 18, 2025, no. 23-20.593 F-D<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Cour de cassation recalls that <strong>the annulment of a partner&#8217;s exclusion<\/strong> has a <strong>retroactive effect<\/strong>: the person concerned regains his status as a partner as if he had never ceased to be one.<br\/>He can therefore <strong>sue for the nullity of meetings<\/strong> held between his exclusion and his reinstatement, on the grounds that he had not been convened to them.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This decision illustrates the risk of <strong>&#8220;cascading nullities&#8221;<\/strong>: all corporate decisions adopted during the disputed period may be called into question.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>To find out more about managing relations between partners and preventing conflicts, consult our page :<\/em><br\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.avocats-lacombe-brisou.fr\/en\/company-law-structuring-and-legal-management\/\"><strong>Conflicts between partners &#8211; Lawyer in Toulon<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, nullity remains <strong>optional<\/strong>: judges may refuse it if the consequences are <strong>disproportionate<\/strong> to the irregularity.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As of <strong>October 1, 2025<\/strong>, the reform of nullities (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Ordinance 2025-229 of March 12, 2025<\/strong><\/a>) will enable judges to limit this retroactive effect, in order to <strong>preserve the legal security of companies<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Discover also our expertise in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avocats-lacombe-brisou.fr\/droit-des-affaires\/droit-des-societes-structuration-gestion-conflits\"><strong>corporate law and corporate governance<\/strong><\/a>including the structuring and management of relationships between partners.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Legal sources<\/h4>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\/codes\/id\/LEGITEXT000005634379\" rel=\"noopener\">Commercial code &#8211; Invalidity of deliberations<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.courdecassation.fr\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.courdecassation.fr\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Cass. com. ruling, June 18, 2025, no. 23-20.593 F-D<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cass. com., June 18, 2025, no. 23-20.593 F-D The Cour de cassation recalls that the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29243,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[225],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avocats-lacombe-brisou.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avocats-lacombe-brisou.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avocats-lacombe-brisou.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avocats-lacombe-brisou.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avocats-lacombe-brisou.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.avocats-lacombe-brisou.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avocats-lacombe-brisou.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avocats-lacombe-brisou.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avocats-lacombe-brisou.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avocats-lacombe-brisou.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}