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Your French Company Needs More Capital and You Live Abroad: How Foreign Shareholders Subscribe, Pay, and Defend Their Stake

How foreign shareholders subscribe and pay for a French SAS or SARL capital increase from abroad, and how the published Integrale and 2020 rulings protect minorities against dilution and evi …

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SAS, SARL or Branch in France When You Live Abroad: Choosing the Right Vehicle, Funding It and Registering From Abroad

SAS vs SARL vs branch for foreign founders: governance, transfers, manager social regime, tax and registration from abroad, with exact statutes and court decisions.

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You Run Your French SAS From Abroad: President’s Pay or Dividends, Social Charges and the URSSAF Bill

Non-resident president of a French SAS? Salary means full social charges as an assimilated employee; dividends need approved profits and suffer 12.8 percent withholding abroad. This guide ma …

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Your Business Partner Blocks Every Decision in Your French Company While You Live Abroad: Deadlock, Forced SAS Shareholder Exclusion and Emergency Court Action

Your French business partner blocks every vote while you live abroad. How to prove deadlock, get an emergency administrator, and force the shareholder out of your SAS: exclusion clause, buyb …

Company law

Your Foreign Company Has a Branch (Succursale) in France and You Live Abroad: Yearly Filing, French Tax, Staff, and How to Close or Convert It Into an SAS

Your foreign company runs a French branch (succursale) while you live abroad: what the branch owes in filing, tax and staff, and how to close it or convert it into an SAS.

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Vote Your French SAS Resolutions From Abroad: Video Meetings, Written Votes and Minutes That Survive a Challenge

Sole shareholder or several partners: how to adopt French SAS resolutions from abroad with video meetings, written consultations and minutes that survive a challenge, with quorum, majority a …

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Your French Bank Says No to a Corporate Account While You Live Abroad: Capital Deposit, Right to an Account and Kbis From Abroad

Your French bank refuses a corporate account and your capital sits blocked while you live abroad. This guide explains why banks decline non-resident founders, how to deposit capital with a b …

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Company law

Selling Your Shares in a French SAS While Living Abroad: Approval, Price, Tax and Filings

Foreign founder selling SAS shares from abroad: bylaws approval, transfer order, 0.1% duty, capital-gains tax, treaties and filings.

Company law

Your French SAS Cannot Repay Your Shareholder Loan and You Live Abroad: Demand Payment, Convert It Into Shares, or Write It Off Without a Tax Shock

A foreign founder's advance sits frozen in a French SAS. Demand repayment with interest, convert the loan into shares, or waive it: procedure and tax for each exit.

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Your French SAS President Quit While You Live Abroad: How to Appoint a Successor, File at the Greffe and Get a Clean Kbis

Your SAS president resigned and you live abroad? Appoint a successor under your statutes, publish within one month, file on the Guichet unique and unblock your Kbis.

Company law

SAS or SARL in France as a Foreign Founder Living Abroad: Social Regime, Cost and Control

SAS or SARL for a founder living abroad? Social regime, cost when unpaid, control from a distance and registration without flying in, with the exact legal texts.

Company law
Company law

Your French SAS Pays You Dividends While You Live Abroad: Vote, Withhold and Reclaim the Treaty Difference

Foreign owner of a French SAS? Learn how dividends are voted and paid within nine months, what 12.8 percent or 25 percent French withholding applies, when a treaty or EU exemption reduces it …

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