{"id":2134086,"date":"2026-09-29T03:54:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T01:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kohenavocats.fr\/2026\/09\/29\/foreign-company-france-transfer-registered-office-siege-greffe-kbis-abroad\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T03:54:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T01:54:31","slug":"foreign-company-france-transfer-registered-office-siege-greffe-kbis-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kohenavocats.fr\/en\/2026\/09\/29\/foreign-company-france-transfer-registered-office-siege-greffe-kbis-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Your French Company Must Move Its Registered Office While You Live Abroad: Transfer Vote, Guichet Unique Filing, BODACC Notice and Kbis Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

Your French company has outgrown its first address. The domiciliation contract in Paris is expiring, the coworking space has closed, or you have finally signed a real lease in Lyon, Bordeaux or La D\u00e9fense \u2014 and you live in London, New York, Dubai or Singapore. Moving the si\u00e8ge social<\/em>, the registered office of your French company, is not a mere change of address with the post office. It is an amendment of the articles of association (statuts<\/em>), published in a legal gazette, filed with the court clerk (greffe<\/em>) through the single online desk, and printed on a new Kbis<\/em> extract, the official identity card of your company. Miss one step, and your bank, your clients and the French courts will keep writing to an address that no longer exists \u2014 while the law treats the old address as your address until the new one is published. This guide walks you through the full procedure as a non-resident founder or director: who votes the transfer, which documents to prepare from abroad, how to file within the one-month deadline, and what happens if the move is never registered.<\/p>\n

I. How to decide and document the transfer of your French company’s registered office from abroad<\/h2>\n

French law treats the registered office as an essential element of the company’s identity. Article L210-2 of the Commercial Code (Code de commerce<\/em>) provides that “La forme, la dur\u00e9e qui ne peut exc\u00e9der quatre-vingt-dix-neuf ans, la d\u00e9nomination sociale, le si\u00e8ge social, l’objet social et le montant du capital social sont d\u00e9termin\u00e9s par les statuts de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9.”<\/a> Moving the seat therefore means amending the statuts<\/em>, and amending the statuts<\/em> means a formal decision of the shareholders, taken under the majority rules of your company form, recorded in written minutes, and supported by proof of the new premises. Every step can be completed remotely, but none of them can be improvised.<\/p>\n

A. Who votes the move in your SARL, SAS or SA, and how to do it while living abroad<\/h3>\n

In a soci\u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e0 responsabilit\u00e9 limit\u00e9e<\/em> (SARL, the French limited liability company with parts sociales<\/em>), the Commercial Code gives the transfer its own majority rule. Article L223-30 states that “le d\u00e9placement du si\u00e8ge social est d\u00e9cid\u00e9 par un ou plusieurs associ\u00e9s repr\u00e9sentant plus de la moiti\u00e9 des parts sociales.”<\/a> This is deliberately lighter than the three-quarters majority required for other amendments of a SARL’s articles, because the legislature wanted seat transfers to remain practical. Check your articles first: a clause may require a higher majority, but any clause demanding more than the statute allows for other amendments is deemed unwritten, so read the transfer clause with care. In practice, the non-resident majority shareholder convenes the meeting by registered letter or email if the articles allow electronic convocation, votes by correspondence or videoconference where authorised, and signs minutes that record the old address, the new address, the effective date and the amendment of the relevant article of the statuts<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In a soci\u00e9t\u00e9 par actions simplifi\u00e9e<\/em> (SAS, the flexible joint-stock company favoured by foreign founders), there is no statutory majority: everything depends on your articles. Article L227-9 of the Commercial Code provides that “Les statuts d\u00e9terminent les d\u00e9cisions qui doivent \u00eatre prises collectivement par les associ\u00e9s dans les formes et conditions qu’ils pr\u00e9voient.”<\/a> Most SAS articles give the president (pr\u00e9sident<\/em>) the power to move the seat within the same d\u00e9partement<\/em> and reserve distant transfers to a collective decision of the shareholders, sometimes by simple written consultation. If you drafted standard articles at incorporation without thinking about it, now is the moment to read them: a transfer voted by the wrong body can be annulled, and the greffe<\/em> (the clerk’s office of the commercial court that keeps the trade register) may reject a filing signed by a person without authority. Written consultation by email exchange, electronic signature of the minutes, and a certified copy of the updated articles are all accepted, which means a founder in London or Dubai can complete this stage without boarding a plane.<\/p>\n

In a soci\u00e9t\u00e9 anonyme<\/em> (SA, the public-limited-style company), only the extraordinary general meeting can amend the articles. Article L225-96 provides that “L’assembl\u00e9e g\u00e9n\u00e9rale extraordinaire est seule habilit\u00e9e \u00e0 modifier les statuts dans toutes leurs dispositions.”<\/a> Quorum and majority thresholds apply, and the meeting must be convened with the statutory notice periods. Whatever the form, keep the full paper trail: convocation notices, attendance sheet or consultation log, the signed minutes (proc\u00e8s-verbal<\/em>), and the restated articles showing the new seat. The one-month filing clock runs from the date of the decision, not from the date you finally gather the documents, so date the minutes precisely and start the next stage immediately. Founders who set up their company earlier will recognise this discipline from the incorporation sequence described in our hub guide on setting up a company in France as a foreign founder<\/a>: the same rigour on documents and deadlines applies here.<\/p>\n

B. Same-court transfer, new-court transfer, and the trap of moving the seat outside France<\/h3>\n

The procedure published by the French administration on service-public.fr distinguishes two situations, and the distinction drives cost, delay and paperwork. If the new seat stays within the jurisdiction (ressort<\/em>) of the same commercial court \u2014 for example a move from the 8th to the 17th arrondissement of Paris, both under the Paris greffe<\/em> \u2014 you publish a transfer notice in a support d’annonces l\u00e9gales<\/em> (Shal, the authorised online legal-notice platform that replaced the old paper journal d’annonces l\u00e9gales<\/em>) for the place of the seat, then file the amendment. If the new seat falls under a different court \u2014 Paris to Lyon, for instance \u2014 the notice must still be published within one month of the decision, and the company will be struck off the old trade register and newly registered with the new greffe<\/em>, which issues a fresh registration. In both cases the administration’s procedure for changing a company’s registered office<\/a> (service-public.fr, procedure F31479) requires the transfer to be declared within one month on the website of the single formalities desk. The transfer notice recorded in the minutes must likewise be published in a Shal for the place of the registered office within one month of the decision, and must contain the mandatory particulars: company name, form, capital, old and new addresses, registration number and the greffe<\/em> of origin and destination.<\/p>\n

Before signing anything, secure the legal right to occupy the new address, because the greffe<\/em> will ask for it. Three situations cover nearly every foreign-owned company. First, a commercial lease (bail commercial<\/a><\/em>) or professional lease in the company’s name: attach the signed lease or a copy of the title deed if the company owns the walls. Second, a domiciliation contract with an authorised domiciliation company: the contract must be valid on the filing date, and our companion guide on the papers a foreign company must hold at its French seat<\/a> explains why an expired domiciliation is the single most common cause of rejected filings. Third, occupation of the director’s personal home where the law and the lease allow it: possible, but check the articles and the housing rules first, since some residential leases forbid professional use. Whatever the basis, the proof of occupation joins the filing bundle alongside the minutes, the updated articles, the legal-notice publication certificate (attestation de parution<\/em>), and the identity documents of the legal representative.<\/p>\n

A final warning for founders tempted by a bigger move: transferring the seat of a French company to a foreign country is a different operation altogether, governed by European and international rules, and it can destroy the French company rather than move it. In a ruling dated 5 November 2025 (pourvoi n\u00b0 24-13.298), the commercial chamber of the Cour de cassation<\/em> (France’s supreme court for civil and commercial matters) held, concerning a French SAS that had voted to move its seat to the United Kingdom after Brexit: “Il ne r\u00e9sulte pas de l’article 1844-7 du code civil que le transfert du si\u00e8ge social d’une soci\u00e9t\u00e9 immatricul\u00e9e en France dans un Etat \u00e9tranger non membre de l’Union europ\u00e9enne, ne disposant pas d’une l\u00e9gislation nationale sur le transfert transfrontalier de si\u00e8ge avec maintien de la personnalit\u00e9 morale des entreprises et avec lequel aucune convention internationale n’a \u00e9t\u00e9 conclue \u00e0 cet \u00e9gard avec l’Etat fran\u00e7ais, emporte de plein droit la disparition de sa personnalit\u00e9 morale et son remplacement par la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 de droit \u00e9tranger constitu\u00e9e selon les formalit\u00e9s applicables au sein de l’Etat \u00e9tranger, ni la transmission universelle de son patrimoine vers cette derni\u00e8re.”<\/a> In that case the French company had been struck off the French register without liquidation, an English company had been incorporated in parallel, and the English entity claimed to continue the French company’s appeal against a liquidation judgment. The Court rejected the claim: the English vehicle was a distinct legal person, no automatic universal transfer of assets had occurred, and the French courts remained competent to place the French company in judicial liquidation. The lesson for a foreign founder is blunt: never vote a transfer of your French company’s seat to a non-EU state without a bespoke cross-border opinion. Within France, by contrast, the transfer preserves the company’s legal personality and registration history; only the address, the competent court and the published records change.<\/p>\n

II. How to file the transfer on the Guichet unique and make it enforceable from abroad<\/h2>\n

Voting the transfer changes the company’s internal rules. Filing it changes reality for everyone else. Since 1 January 2023, all business formalities in France \u2014 creation, modification, cessation \u2014 pass through a single online desk, the guichet des formalit\u00e9s des entreprises<\/em> operated for the State, which feeds the Registre national des entreprises<\/em> (RNE, the national business register) and the local trade and companies register, the registre du commerce et des soci\u00e9t\u00e9s<\/em> (RCS, kept by each greffe<\/em>). Article L123-33 of the Commercial Code states that “toute entreprise se conforme \u00e0 l’obligation de d\u00e9clarer sa cr\u00e9ation, la modification de sa situation ou la cessation de ses activit\u00e9s aupr\u00e8s d’une administration, d’une personne ou d’un organisme mentionn\u00e9s \u00e0 l’article L. 123-32 par le d\u00e9p\u00f4t d’un seul dossier comportant les d\u00e9clarations qu’elle est tenue d’effectuer. Ce dossier est d\u00e9pos\u00e9 par voie \u00e9lectronique aupr\u00e8s d’un organisme unique d\u00e9sign\u00e9 \u00e0 cet effet.”<\/a> A seat transfer is a modification of the company’s situation within the meaning of that article: one electronic file, one deadline, and downstream updates to the tax authorities, URSSAF (the body collecting social contributions) and INSEE (which manages the SIREN identification number) flow from it. The RNE itself is defined by Article L123-36, under which “Il est tenu un registre national des entreprises, auquel s’immatriculent les entreprises exer\u00e7ant sur le territoire fran\u00e7ais une activit\u00e9 de nature commerciale, artisanale, agricole ou ind\u00e9pendante.”<\/a><\/p>\n

A. Filing the amendment within one month: the Guichet unique bundle, BODACC notice and new Kbis<\/h3>\n

The filing bundle for a seat transfer, lodged online within one month of the shareholders’ decision, contains the signed minutes recording the transfer and the amended article of the statuts<\/em>, the complete updated articles certified by the legal representative, the publication certificate for the transfer notice in the Shal, proof of occupation of the new premises (lease, title deed or domiciliation contract with the provider’s approval), a copy of the representative’s identity document, and, for a move to another court’s jurisdiction, the documents needed for striking off at the old greffe<\/em> and registration at the new one. Where the destination court differs, two publications may be required in practice \u2014 one in each jurisdiction’s Shal \u2014 and the service-public.fr procedure details which mentions each notice must carry. Pay the registry fees online; Article L123-54 recalls that “L’inscription d’informations ou le d\u00e9p\u00f4t de pi\u00e8ces au registre national des entreprises fait l’objet de l’acquittement de droits.”<\/a> Keep every receipt: if the greffe<\/em> issues an objection (rejet<\/em> or renvoi<\/em>), the correction window runs fast, and a founder living abroad who discovers the message three weeks later may already be out of time.<\/p>\n

Once the greffe<\/em> validates the file, publicity follows automatically. Registration changes give rise to a notice in the Bulletin officiel des annonces civiles et commerciales<\/em> (BODACC, the official gazette for company registrations and insolvency proceedings). Article R123-155 of the Commercial Code provides that “Toute immatriculation donne lieu \u00e0 l’insertion d’un avis au Bulletin officiel des annonces civiles et commerciales.”<\/a> and Article R210-8<\/a> extends the same BODACC publicity to the formation of the company after its registration The same publicity logic applies to the transfer notices that update the company’s record. Order a fresh Kbis<\/em> extract as soon as registration is confirmed and check every line: new address, competent greffe<\/em>, updated lease reference where applicable. The Kbis<\/em> is the document your bank will demand before updating the account address \u2014 and banks dealing with foreign-owned companies are strict, as our guide on opening and keeping a French business bank account from abroad<\/a> shows. Circulate the new Kbis<\/em> to the bank, the accountant, URSSAF, the tax office (service des imp\u00f4ts des entreprises<\/em>), insurers and major clients the same week.<\/p>\n

Two related updates are frequently forgotten. First, the register of beneficial owners (registre des b\u00e9n\u00e9ficiaires effectifs<\/em>, RBE): a transfer within the same court’s jurisdiction requires a new beneficial-ownership declaration only if the move coincides with a change in identity, personal address, capital distribution or control of a beneficial owner \u2014 but verify the point systematically, because an outdated RBE blocks financing and perfectionist counterparties check it. Second, the company’s own documents: website legal notice (mentions l\u00e9gales<\/em>), invoices (which must show the registered office), employment contracts referencing the workplace, and the single risk-assessment document. None of these replaces the RCS filing, but all of them reduce the friction that an address change creates with employees, suppliers and administrations. Record the whole sequence in the company’s annual legal monitoring, alongside the recurring duties described in our annual legal calendar for French companies run from abroad<\/a>, so that next year’s accounts approval and filings use the correct seat from the start.<\/p>\n

B. What happens if you move without filing: unenforceability, served judgments and frozen operations<\/h3>\n

French commercial publicity is not decorative. Article L123-9 of the Commercial Code provides that “La personne assujettie \u00e0 immatriculation ne peut, dans l’exercice de son activit\u00e9, opposer ni aux tiers ni aux administrations publiques, qui peuvent toutefois s’en pr\u00e9valoir, les faits et actes sujets \u00e0 mention que si ces derniers ont \u00e9t\u00e9 publi\u00e9s au registre.”<\/a> A seat transfer that was voted but never published is therefore unenforceable against third parties and public bodies: you cannot rely on the new address against a creditor, a client or the tax administration, while they remain entitled to rely on the old one. The commercial chamber confirmed the teeth of this rule on 27 November 2024 (pourvoi n\u00b0 22-24.511), recalling that “la personne assujettie \u00e0 immatriculation ne peut, dans l’exercice de son activit\u00e9, opposer ni aux tiers ni aux administrations publiques les faits et actes sujets \u00e0 mention que si ces derniers ont \u00e9t\u00e9 publi\u00e9s au registre du commerce et des soci\u00e9t\u00e9s.”<\/a> In that case the Court delimited the rule’s scope for notarial deeds, but the principle it restated governs every published corporate change \u2014 including your transfer.<\/p>\n

The practical consequences arrive in a predictable order. First, correspondence keeps flowing to the old address: tax notices, URSSAF demands, and above all bailiffs’ writs (significations<\/em>). Under the procedural presumption restated by the second civil chamber on 12 June 2025 (pourvoi n\u00b0 22-24.111), “une soci\u00e9t\u00e9, tant qu’elle n’a pas fait choix d’un nouveau si\u00e8ge social, est r\u00e9put\u00e9e conserver son si\u00e8ge social au lieu fix\u00e9 par les statuts et publi\u00e9 au registre du commerce, sous r\u00e9serve de la preuve de son caract\u00e8re fictif ou frauduleux.”<\/a> In that dispute, a real-estate company (SCI<\/a>) whose registered address appeared on its Kbis<\/em> had its appeal referral declared void by the court of appeal because a bailiff had reported the company unknown at that address; the Cour de cassation<\/em> quashed the ruling, holding that the address on the trade-register extract had to be treated as the seat absent proof of a fictitious or fraudulent character. The protection cuts both ways: as long as your new seat is unpublished, opponents may validly serve your company at the old published address, and a default judgment obtained there can become enforceable before you even learn of the case. A founder who discovers the dispute from abroad then faces the choice between an opposition or appeal against the clock and a negotiated settlement from a position of weakness.<\/p>\n

Second, the gap between the real seat and the published seat creates its own risk. Article 1837 of the Civil Code provides that “Toute soci\u00e9t\u00e9 dont le si\u00e8ge est situ\u00e9 sur le territoire fran\u00e7ais est soumise aux dispositions de la loi fran\u00e7aise. Les tiers peuvent se pr\u00e9valoir du si\u00e8ge statutaire, mais celui-ci ne leur est pas opposable par la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 si le si\u00e8ge r\u00e9el est situ\u00e9 en un autre lieu.”<\/a> If your teams actually work at the new address while the RCS still shows the old one, third parties may rely on whichever seat suits them, and you may rely on neither. Banks freeze online access pending updated KYC documents, accountants refuse to file VAT returns with inconsistent addresses, and URSSAF auditors treat unreported moves as an indicator of broader non-compliance \u2014 a dynamic examined in our guide to URSSAF audits of French companies run from abroad<\/a>. If the delay is discovered late, the remedy is a regularisation filing without delay: vote or confirm the transfer in proper form if the original minutes are defective, publish the notice, file on the guichet<\/em>, and notify every counterparty in writing. Late publication does not rewrite history \u2014 acts served at the old published seat in the meantime remain valid \u2014 but it stops the exposure from growing, restores the company’s ability to rely on its real seat, and reopens normal relations with the bank and the administrations.<\/p>\n

Conclusion<\/h2>\n

Transferring the registered office of a French company from abroad follows a strict sequence: a decision taken by the competent body under the applicable majority \u2014 the SARL’s half of the shares, the SAS’s contractually designated decision-maker, the SA’s extraordinary meeting \u2014 recorded in dated minutes with restated articles; a transfer notice published in the Shal within one month; a single electronic filing on the guichet des formalit\u00e9s des entreprises<\/em> within the same month, with proof of occupation of the new premises; then BODACC publicity and a verified new Kbis<\/em> circulated to the bank, the accountant and the administrations. Until publication, the old published seat governs relations with third parties, service of process lands at the old door, and the real seat cannot be invoked against anyone. Within France the transfer preserves legal personality and registration history; outside the European Union, as the Cour de cassation<\/em> recalled in November 2025, the operation may create an entirely different legal person with no automatic transfer of assets. Treat the move as the corporate act it is \u2014 deliberate, documented and published \u2014 and the new address becomes an asset rather than a liability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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