Hello,

est acquis = has been obtained

But, I would word it this way, so it sounds like natural English.

I hope this helps.



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Note added at 5 hrs (2007-06-19 03:18:02 GMT)
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Literally,

The client's agreement has been obtained/acquired for the...

How do we say that in natural English?

The client has given his/her consent to any transfer or...

The French structure doesn't work in English, as far as I am concerned.

Simply: "has agreed to"

http://www.google.fr/search?hl=fr&q="given his agreement to"...

or "has given his/its agreement to"

Client/customer is a interesting one in English: my interpretation is that there is a shade of meaning, in that a client is more a big spender in corporate dealings, a returning customer, whereas a customer is a regular Joe Bloggs who the the seller doesn't know from Adam, so to speak.

(Client in other words is a more "prestigious" way of saying someone who gives you cash for goods/services.)

I personally think "client" is misused in translations when "customer" will do just fine.

(That's that bee out of my bonnet!)

I don't read this quite the same way as the previous three answerers, who seem to have gone off on a slight tangent (though, in the end, the functional difference is not great).

Rather than re-reading «est acquis» as «a été acquis», surely it should be simply taken in its +/- adjectival role as "understood"/"assumed"/"taken as a given" -- or indeed the asker's own phrase "taken for granted".


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Note added at 13 hrs (2007-06-19 11:08:55 GMT)
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More I reflect, more I get to feel that this phrase does *not* say that the client has given any form of explicit consent, but rather that the client has tacitly or implicitly consented by virtue of some other act or circumstance -- so phrases implying active consent are misrepresenting the source text.