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French law in practice

Practical guides to French property and business law for readers dealing with French notaries, landlords, companies or courts from abroad, and analysis of current legal news.

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Company law

Selling Your French Second Home from Britain After Brexit: Capital Gains Tax, Social Charges and How to Challenge the Bill

British seller in France after Brexit: 19% capital gains levy, 7.5% solidarity charge with UK affiliation, representant fiscal, form 2048-IMM and how to challenge the bill.

Company law

Your French Company Needs More Capital and You Live Abroad: How a Foreign Shareholder Increases Capital, Defends Pre-emption Rights and Files From Abroad

Foreign shareholder guide to increasing capital in a French SAS or SARL from abroad: cash subscription, bank certificate, in-kind valuation, DPS rights and annulment actions.

Property

Your Neighbour Built Onto Your French Land: Encroachment, Demolition and Damages After the Amiens 4cm Case

A 4cm encroachment in Amiens froze a house build for 20 months and cost 13,246.80 euros. How French demolition law works after the July 2025 Cour de cassation ruling, and what foreign owners …

Tax and estate

British Family SCI After Brexit: Income Tax, the 3% Bill, Selling Shares and Death — and How to Challenge Each Bill

British family SCI after Brexit: income tax or company tax, the annual 3% bill and form 2746, selling shares, succession law and forced heirship — with remedies.

Contracts and business

Your French Company Wants to Pay You Dividends While You Live Abroad: Approval, Withholding Tax and How to Bring the Money Home

Foreign owner of a French SAS or SARL? Learn when dividends are legal, how much France withholds at source, and how treaties and the EU parent exemption bring the money home.

News

British Heir Selling the Inherited French House from the UK After Brexit: Proving Heirship, Clearing Title, Paying the Tax and Challenging Blocks

British heir in the UK selling an inherited French house after Brexit: proving heirship, clearing co-heir and protected-heir title, death duties, capital gains, tax representative and how to …

Contracts and business

Foreign Company Renting in France: How to Sign a 3/6/9 Commercial Lease From Abroad, Secure the Deposit and Survive Renewal or Eviction

Foreign founder renting business premises in France? A Paris business lawyer explains the 3/6/9 commercial lease, deposits and guarantees, renewal rights, eviction indemnity and rent reviews …

Property

France’s Energy Rental Bans and the 2026 DPE Reset: A Foreign Owner’s Guide to Letting Legally

G-rated homes are banned from rental since 2025, F follows in 2028. A foreign owner's guide to the calendar, tenant remedies, the June 2026 eviction ruling, diagnostics case law and the pend …

Company law

Your French Company Needs Cash and You Live Abroad: How a Foreign Shareholder Funds an SAS or SARL With a Current-Account Loan, Charges Interest and Gets Repaid

WITHDRAWN: near-duplicate of 2026-09-17 shareholder current-account guide; kept as draft pending pivot.

News

British Owner Letting Your French Second Home After Brexit: Furnished Rental Tax, Registration, Fines and How to Challenge the Bill

British owner letting a French second home furnished after Brexit: where the rent is taxed, micro-BIC or actual costs, social charges and the S1, registration, the 120-night rule, fines up t …

Insolvency

Closing Your French Company From Abroad: Dissolution, Liquidation, Strike-Off, Tax and Social Clearance for Foreign Owners

Foreign owner abroad? How to dissolve a French SAS or SARL, appoint a liquidator, use the single-owner transfer or full liquidation, pay creditors, clear tax and URSSAF, strike off the RCS a …

News

British Remote Worker in France After Brexit: Visa, Tax, Social Security and How to Challenge a Refusal or a Bill

British citizen working remotely in France for a UK employer after Brexit: the right visa and residence permit, where the salary is taxed under the France-UK treaty, French social security f …

Maître Reda Kohen

Maître Reda Kohen

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