Question juridique clé
Whether the July/September 1999 agreement was a mandate contract.
Solution extraite
Yes. The agreement contained an obligation to provide advisory services for H. in the banking and insurance field, which is characteristic of a mandate.
Motifs extraits
The contract required the defendant to be active as an advisor for H., a service performed for a third party to help achieve business goals; the presence of two forms of remuneration did not alter this qualification.