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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

Your French Bank Refuses to Open Your Company Account While You Live Abroad: Capital Deposit, Right to an Account, and Getting Your Kbis Anyway

A French bank refused your company account while you live abroad. Deposit your capital via a bank or notary, secure the Kbis extract that releases blocked funds, and use the Banque de France …

Contracts and business

Your French Company’s President Resigned — or Has to Go — While You Live Abroad: Revoke, Appoint and Register the New Director From Abroad

Your SAS president resigned or must be removed while you live abroad? How to vote the revocation under your articles, appoint the successor and file the change on the Guichet unique so banks …

News

British Healthcare in France After Brexit: CPAM, PUMA, GHIC and How to Challenge a Refusal or a Bill

British in France after Brexit: how to join the CPAM through PUMA, what the GHIC and S1 still cover, and how to challenge a refusal, a late start date or a CSM bill.

Leases and renting

Paris Rent Cap (Encadrement des Loyers): Foreign Landlord’s Guide to Defending Your Rent and Supplement After a Tenant Challenge (2026)

Your Paris tenant challenges your rent or rent supplement: reference rents, conciliation, the judge, and the December 2025 rulings every foreign landlord should know.

News

British Second-Home Owners After Brexit: How the 90/180-Day Rule, EES and ETIAS Decide Your Stay in France, and How to Challenge an Overstay Order

British in France after Brexit: the 90/180-day rule, EES biometrics, ETIAS authorisation, OQTF removal orders and how to challenge them.

Contracts and business

Your French Company Must Receive E-Invoices While You Live Abroad: Electronic Invoicing, E-Reporting and Four New Mandatory Details (2026-2027)

Since 1 September 2026 every French company must receive electronic invoices and large companies must issue them; small companies follow in 2027. A practical English guide for founders abroa …

Tax and estate

Your Parent Died Leaving a House in France: What the British Heir Pays, Declares and Can Challenge After Brexit

A British heir to a French house pays French succession tax on the property, deducts the 100,000 euro allowance per child, claims treaty credit for UK tax, and must file within one year of a …

Company law

Your Foreign Company Wants a French Subsidiary While You Stay Abroad: Create the Filiale SAS, Fund It, Register It and Cap Your Liability

How a foreign parent creates a French filiale SAS from abroad: documents, capital deposit, Guichet unique filing, tax on profits, and where the liability shield stops.

Property

Service Charges Your French Tenant Refuses to Pay: The Foreign Landlord’s Recovery Guide

Your French tenant refuses to pay the annual service-charge top-up. This guide explains what landlords may legally recover, the yearly reconciliation ritual that decides everything, and how …

Leases and renting

Your French Tenant Pays But Will Not Leave After Brexit: How a British Landlord Sells or Takes Back an Occupied Flat

Your French tenant pays but will not leave. This guide gives British landlords both exits: the sale notice with the tenant's right of first refusal, and the repossession notice, with fraud t …

Contracts and business

Your French Company Is Moving Its Registered Office to Paris While You Live Abroad: Transfer Vote, Greffe Filing, BODACC and Tax Updates

Moving your French company's registered office to Paris from abroad: SAS and SARL vote, one-month publication and INPI filing, same-district versus cross-district steps, and the tax, bank an …

News

British Private Pension in France After Brexit: SIPP Drawdown, QROPS Transfers, the 25% Lump Sum and How to Challenge the French Tax Bill

British SIPP in France after Brexit: QROPS transfer charges, the 25% lump sum, French income tax, social charges and how to challenge the bill.

Maître Reda Kohen

Maître Reda Kohen

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