Question juridique clé
Whether a brokerage contract was concluded for the defendant's activities in the Y. Telecom transaction.
Solution extraite
No brokerage contract was established; the claimant could not, under good faith, understand the defendant's conduct as brokerage with a success-based fee claim.
Motifs extraits
The defendant's conduct was, at most, supportive/lobbying activity carried out in his capacity as honorary consul and lawyer. There was no clear indication of an agreed success fee, no express agreement on remuneration, and the circumstances did not objectively require the claimant to see him as acting as a broker.