{"id":701,"date":"2025-02-07T01:51:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T00:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ngoune-avocat.com\/franchiseur-etablir-ou-ne-pas-etablir-les-comptes-previsionnels-dexploitation-du-candidat-franchise-telle-nest-plus-la-question\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T13:54:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T12:54:49","slug":"franchisor-to-prepare-or-not-to-prepare-the-prospective-operating-accounts-of-the-prospective-franchisee-that-is-no-longer-the-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ngoune-avocat.com\/en\/franchisor-to-prepare-or-not-to-prepare-the-prospective-operating-accounts-of-the-prospective-franchisee-that-is-no-longer-the-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Franchisor, to prepare or not to prepare the prospective operating accounts of the prospective franchisee? That is no longer the question"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Published on <strong>LexisNexis<\/strong>\u2013 La Semaine Juridique \u2013 Entreprise et Affaires<strong><em>, <\/em><\/strong>February 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Contract Law for special contracts sets out the pre-contractual obligation of the franchisor to provide information to the prospective franchisee; this obligation covers a limited list of items, which does not include projected operating accounts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, there are numerous disputes between franchisors and franchisees concerning the franchisee&#8217;s projected operating accounts, particularly in the event of the franchisee&#8217;s bankruptcy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This article reviews the approach taken by judges in ruling on this type of dispute and the impact of the common law duty to disclose information resulting from the 2016 Contract Law reform on the decisions rendered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"link-arrow-wrapper\">\n    <a class=\"link-arrow-btn inline-flex items-center gap-4 group contact-button-2lines not-prose\" href=\"https:\/\/emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lexis360intelligence.fr%2Frevues%2FLa_Semaine_Juridique_-_Entreprise_et_affaires_(JCP_E)%2FPNO_RJCPEA%2Fdocument%2FPS_KPRE-694864_0KU0%3Fdoc_type%3Ddoctrine_revue%26q%3DLAURA%2520NGOUNE%26sort%3Dscore%26from%3D0%26to%3D1766848411171%26source%3Dhistory%26numero%3D1&#038;data=05%7C02%7C%7C488e6a4f4acb4ed61aeb08de2cfed24b%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C638997670111286289%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&#038;sdata=Qp2nYNRTy7hJ1kMGWlX%2FUXDCVtRhpRgRHwnqZd3t5iM%3D&#038;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n    <span class=\"w-16 h-16 bg-primary text-white rounded-full flex items-center justify-center group-hover:bg-primary\/80 transition-colors duration-300 shrink-0\">\n        <span class=\"material-symbols-outlined text-3xl\">arrow_forward<\/span>\n    <\/span>\n    <div class=\"link-arrow-texts\">\n                    <span class=\"link-arrow-label block text-sm font-bold uppercase tracking-widest text-slate-400\">\n                Read the article             <\/span>\n                            <span class=\"link-arrow-main block text-xl font-display font-semibold text-slate-900 group-hover:text-primary transition-colors\">\n                LexisNexis (subscription required)             <\/span>\n            <\/div>\n    <\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on LexisNexis\u2013 La Semaine Juridique \u2013 Entreprise et Affaires, February 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commercial-litigation","category-commercial-advisory"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ngoune-avocat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ngoune-avocat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ngoune-avocat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ngoune-avocat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ngoune-avocat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.ngoune-avocat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1319,"href":"https:\/\/www.ngoune-avocat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions\/1319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ngoune-avocat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ngoune-avocat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ngoune-avocat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ngoune-avocat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}