Setting up a compagny
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Updated on Tuesday 6 January 2026
Setting up a company
Whichever legal form they choose for their operation, whether a one-person business, EURL [one-person limited company], SARL [private limited company], SA [public limited company], or some other form, entrepreneurs have many questions.
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Updated on Thursday 15 January 2026
The Limited Liability Sole Trader status
Businnessman, whether craftspeople, traders, farmers or micro-trader, self-employed professionals, may opt to be classified as a sole trader with limited liability (EIRL).
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Updated on Friday 17 February 2023
Should you set up an SCI to hold your professional real estate?
A business manager may be required to acquire the premises in which he operates his business. The question of the method for holding professional real estate presents legal, economic and tax issues.
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Updated on Monday 16 March 2026
Businesses
The purchase, creation or sale of a business is an important legal and economic act in the professional life of a businessman or woman.
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Updated on Tuesday 16 January 2024
Business owner, which matrimonial regime to choose?
The matrimonial regime fixes the rights and obligations of each spouse on the goods and the debts. Trader, craftsman, farmer, liberal professional, independent worker or industrial: reflect it well!
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Manage your professional assets
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Updated on Thursday 29 June 2023
Commercial lease
A commercial lease is a rental agreement between a trader, an artisan or a manufacturer that operates a business in a premises, and the owner of those premises.
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Updated on Wednesday 8 April 2026
Protecting real estate from attachment
Individual entrepreneurs can protect their assets so as to ensure that a business bankruptcy does not lead to personal bankruptcy, by making their real estate exempt from attachment.
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Updated on Thursday 8 February 2024
Conditions : tax exemption for business capital gains
Capital gains are products of an exceptional nature made by the company as part of an agricultural, artisanal, commercial, industrial, or liberal activity, upon the sale of a capital asset. These are mostly taxable. There are several exemption mechanisms.
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Manage your own agricultural company
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Updated on Friday 13 January 2017
Different types of agricultural companies
Farming, including its legal aspects, is changing all the time.
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Updated on Thursday 29 June 2023
Why create an agricultural fund ?
Agricultural companies make it possible to value a farm, to clarify the relations between private and professional assets and facilitate the transfer of farms.
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Updated on Wednesday 14 February 2024
Assigning a lease to non-family members
Where the lessor and the tenant agree, the law allows them to draw up a lease that can be assigned to non-family members
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Pass on/Resume
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Updated on Monday 23 January 2023
Loans for assignies agricultural properties
The law on French agricultural orientation gives tax advantages to farmers who sell their business to young farmers.
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Updated on Tuesday 12 March 2024
Protection mandates for business leaders
To prepare for managing personal and non-personal interests in case they can no longer handle them alone or in the event of their death, a business leader can use two types of mandates: the future protection mandate and the posthumous mandate.
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Updated on Thursday 15 February 2024
Business transfer
In order to ensure that companies continue to exist and remain stable, there are several measures that encourage business owners to pass on their business to their relatives.
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Updated on Tuesday 9 June 2026
Dutreil Pact and transfer of a family business
The Dutreil pact allows, under certain conditions, to allow the transfer of a family business and benefit from an exemption through free transfer duties up to three-quarters of its value.
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Updated on Friday 17 February 2023
Passing on an agricultural company
Agriculture plays a key role in our economy. And farming is unlike other businesses. French law offers special protection to farmers who face some difficult questions when the time comes to transfer ownership.
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A question ? Need help ?
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Will the 3 partners be exempt from real estate capital gains? No. Capital gains realized on the sale of the main residence of the seller on the day of the sale are exempt (article 150 U, II-1° of the General Tax Code). When the property is held through a company…
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No. Case law holds that “the usufructuary of company shares cannot be recognized as having partner status, which belongs exclusively to the bare owner” (see Cass. Com., advisory opinion, 1 Dec. 2021; Cass. 3rd Civ., 16 Feb. 2022, No. 20-15.164). Moreover, an SCI must have at least two partners (Art…
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Article L. 123-33.-A of the Commercial Code (resulting from the PACTE law) provides that a single digital body replaces the business formalities centers (CFE). Thus, since January 1, 2023, all business formalities (registrations, modifications and cancellations) must be carried out only online via the website of the National Institute of…