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Contracts and business

Your French Partner Filed Your Brand at the INPI While You Live Abroad: Opposition, Recovery and Damages

Your French partner filed your brand at the INPI in his own name? Opposition within two months, ownership claim, nullity for fraud and damages — the full recovery method from abroad.

Contracts and business

Your French Company Made a Profit While You Live Abroad: Taking Dividends, Salary and Fees Home Without a Tax Reassessment

Dividends, salary or management fees: how foreign owners take profits out of a French company, cut withholding with treaties and challenge reassessments from abroad.

Contracts and business

You Lent Money to Your French Company and Live Abroad: Getting Your Shareholder Loan Back When Repayment Is Blocked

Foreign shareholder of a French SAS or SASL whose current account repayment is refused: when the loan is repayable on demand, how lock-ups and bank pledges work, and how to force repayment f …

Contracts and business

Chased Abroad for Your French Company’s Debts? How a Foreign Director Fights the Claim Without Flying to Paris

Foreign director chased from abroad for French company debts? Oppositions, evidence and Paris courts: the defence guide against guarantees, tax solidarity, URSSAF orders and shortfall action …

Contracts and business

What Your French Commercial Lease Really Costs to Enter and Exit While You Live Abroad: Deposit, Guarantees, Inventory, Termination and the Two-Year Clock

What a French commercial lease really costs a foreign company: deposit and advance-rent interest, personal guarantees, inventory of fixtures, termination demands, sale of the building and th …

Contracts and business
Contracts and business

You Direct Your French Company From Abroad: President or Manager, Social Charges, Cover, and How to Challenge URSSAF

Non-resident president of a SAS or manager of a SARL: which French social regime applies, what charges you pay, how an A1 certificate exempts you, and how to challenge URSSAF from abroad.

Contracts and business
Contracts and business

Your French Company Missed Its Annual Accounts While You Live Abroad: Greffe Injunction, Fines and How to Fix the Filing Late

Foreign owner guide: approve late accounts, file at the greffe, stop the daily penalty and fix missing French filings from abroad.

Contracts and business

Your First French Hire Is Not Working Out and You Live Abroad: Dismiss Lawfully, Negotiate an Agreed Exit and Survive the Labour Court

Foreign founder guide: dismiss your first French employee or negotiate a rupture conventionnelle from abroad, price notice and severance, file the exit papers and defend a prudhommes claim w …

Contracts and business

Your French Company Owes Corporate Tax While You Live Abroad: 25% Rate, Instalments, Losses and How to Fight the Reassessment

Foreign founder guide to French corporate tax: 25% standard rate, 15% reduced rate to 42,500 euros, loss carryforward cap, instalment calendar and how to challenge a reassessment from abroad …

Contracts and business

Your French Company Must Switch to Electronic Invoices While You Live Abroad: 2026-2027 Deadlines, Compliant Invoices, Fines and Paid Bills

Foreign founder run your French company from abroad? E-invoicing becomes compulsory from 1 September 2026: calendar by company size, compliant invoices, fines and how to force customers to p …

Contracts and business

Close Your French Company From Abroad: Dissolve, Liquidate, Strike Off the Kbis and Stop the Bills

Dormant French SAS or SARL still bills you every year. This guide shows foreign owners how to vote the dissolution, run the liquidation, pay the last taxes and strike the company off the reg …

Contracts and business

Your French Company Director Went Rogue While You Live Abroad: Remove the President, Block the Bank and Survive the Damages Claim

Foreign shareholder guide: revoke a French SAS president or SARL gerant from abroad, file on the Guichet unique, block the bank, and defeat the damages claim.

Maître Reda Kohen

Maître Reda Kohen

Partner, member of the Paris Bar, 11 rue Margueritte, 75017 Paris. Author of the analyses published in this journal. About