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Contracts and business

Your French Company Must Switch to Electronic Invoices From Abroad: Platforms, Deadlines, Penalties and How to Get Paid

From 1 September 2026 every company in France must receive electronic invoices. A practical English guide for directors living abroad: platforms, new invoice mentions, fines and collecting u …

Contracts and business

French Bank Refuses Your Company Account and You Live Abroad: Droit au Compte, Deposit Certificate and How to Force Registration

Your French bank refused the corporate account and your capital is frozen in France. How to force the opening through the Banque de France droit-au-compte procedure, secure the deposit certi …

Contracts and business

Your French Company Owes Corporate Tax (IS) and You Live Abroad: File the Return, Pay on Time and Contest the Reassessment

Foreign founder? How French corporate tax (IS) works for your company: filing, instalments, deadlines, penalties, and how to contest a reassessment from abroad.

Contracts and business

Your French Company Cannot Bill Clients and You Live Abroad: Get Your VAT Number, Invoice Lawfully and Contest Fines From Abroad

Foreign founder blocked on VAT: get the French VAT number, invoice lawfully, appoint a fiscal representative and contest fines from abroad.

Contracts and business

Your Name Is on Your French Company’s Papers and You Live Abroad: When URSSAF Calls You a Director and How to Fight the Reassessment

Named on your French SAS papers but living abroad with no pay? When URSSAF treats an unpaid title as a director's mandate, how judges decide, and how to answer a reassessment from abroad.

Contracts and business

Your Business Partner Blocks Your French Company’s Beneficial Owners Filing and You Live Abroad: Force the Papers, Face the Judge and File From Abroad

Partner refusing passport or address for the French RBE? Demand letter, eight-day emergency order under daily penalty, and the injunction machine behind it.

Contracts and business

Your French Company Needs Premises While You Live Abroad: Sign a 3/6/9 Commercial Lease, Control the Rent and Save Your Renewal Right

Foreign founder signing a French commercial lease from abroad: 3/6/9 duration, derogatory lease, three-yearly revision, renewal rent and eviction payment under Articles L145-1 to L145-41.

Contracts and business

The French Liquidator Says You Owe Your Company’s Debts From Abroad: How a Foreign Director Answers, Defends and Closes the Risk

You live abroad and the French liquidator summons you to pay your company's debts personally. Shortfall liability, the simple-negligence shield, the three-year deadline and management bans …

Contracts and business

Your French Company Just Received an Order to Pay and You Live Abroad: Oppose Within One Month and Force a Full Hearing

Your French company was ordered to pay without a hearing while you live abroad. This guide shows how to check the order, file an opposition within the one-month deadline extended by distance …

Contracts and business

Your French Partner Cuts You Off Without Notice and You Run the Company From Abroad: Notice Periods, Damages and Emergency Relief

French partner ended your distribution or supply relationship overnight. Notice periods, gross-margin damages and emergency relief for companies run from abroad.

Contracts and business

Your First French Hire Just Sued You and You Live Abroad: Answer the Labour Court Summons, Win Conciliation and Cap Damages

Sued by your first French hire from abroad? Conciliation hearing, Macron damages scale, twelve-month time bar, and how to defend without flying to France.

Contracts and business

Your French Company Missed Its Annual Accounts Filing and You Live Abroad: Greffe Injunction, Daily Fines and How to Fix It From Abroad

DRAFT - quasi-duplicate of 2026-09-15 accounts article, depublished pending pivot.

Maître Reda Kohen

Maître Reda Kohen

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