May 2015 – Litigation

El Chaer Law Firm, with its collaborator law firm in Paris Archipel, represented its client Commisimpex before the Supreme Court against Société Générale and the Republic of Congo and succeeded in the endeavor of attaching a number of bank accounts held by the Republic of Congo in Société Générale. This decision potentially heralds a significant change in the French courts recent approach to questions of sovereign immunity.