English Translation of a CSE Document in the Context of an Automotive Merger

A Strategic Document with Social and Organizational Impact

We recently translated from French into English a CSE information-consultation document (Comité Social et Économique) for a French company in the automotive sector, as part of a merger project between two European industrial groups.

The document’s purpose was to explain to employee representatives:

• the strategic rationale for the rapprochement (business combination),

• a presentation of both groups (activities, locations, headcount, financial results),

• the key aspects of the merger (governance, shareholding structure, creation of the société faîtière / parent company).

A significant section was dedicated to the social consequences—both collective and individual—together with the planned project timeline.

🎯 The challenge: to faithfully render a document at the crossroads of labour law, corporate law, and financial communication, while ensuring clarity and precision for a readership not exclusively legal.

A Translation Sensitive to Both Technical and Human Dimensions

One of the main challenges was the diversity of registers within a single document:

• technical: economic performance indicators,

• neutral and factual: description of the merger project,

• prudent and cautious: foreseeable social impacts.

The translation was delivered in professional and accessible English, aligned with the standards of listed companies.

📌 Contextual Translations from this Project

• marge opérationnelle courante moyenne → average recurring operating margin

• croissance du chiffre d’affaires → revenue growth

• forte complémentarité → strong complementarity

• rapprochement → business combination

• société faîtière du groupe → the group’s parent company

• obtention d’autorisations réglementaires en matière de concurrence → obtaining regulatory authorizations with respect to competition

• volet social → employment considerations

• contrôle des concentrations → merger control