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Updated on Thursday 18 September 2025

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Setting up a compagny

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Setting up a company

Whichever legal form they choose for their operation, whether a one-person business, EURL [one-person limited company], SARL [private limited company], SA [public limited company], or some other form, entrepreneurs have many questions.
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Businesses

The purchase, creation or sale of a business is an important legal and economic act in the professional life of a businessman or woman.
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Manage your professional assets

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Commercial lease

A commercial lease is a rental agreement between a trader, an artisan or a manufacturer that operates a business in a premises, and the owner of those premises.
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Protecting real estate from attachment

Individual entrepreneurs can protect their assets so as to ensure that a business bankruptcy does not lead to personal bankruptcy, by making their real estate exempt from attachment. 
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Conditions : tax exemption for business capital gains

Capital gains are products of an exceptional nature made by the company as part of an agricultural, artisanal, commercial, industrial, or liberal activity, upon the sale of a capital asset. These are mostly taxable. There are several exemption mechanisms.
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Manage your own agricultural company

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Why create an agricultural fund ?

Agricultural companies make it possible to value a farm, to clarify the relations between private and professional assets and facilitate the transfer of farms.
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Pass on/Resume

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Protection mandates for business leaders

To prepare for managing personal and non-personal interests in case they can no longer handle them alone or in the event of their death, a business leader can use two types of mandates: the future protection mandate and the posthumous mandate.
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Business transfer

In order to ensure that companies continue to exist and remain stable, there are several measures that encourage business owners to pass on their business to their relatives.
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Passing on an agricultural company

Agriculture plays a key role in our economy. And farming is unlike other businesses. French law offers special protection to farmers who face some difficult questions when the time comes to transfer ownership.
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A question ? Need help ?

Yes, in certain cases. When the sale involves most of the shares in a SCI that owns a property whose sale would itself be subject to the town's right of pre-emption, the town council can exercise this right (art. L.213-1, 3° C. urbanism). Good to know: this right of pre-emption…
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Will the 3 partners be exempt from real estate capital gains? No. Capital gains realized on the sale of the main residence of the seller on the day of the sale are exempt (article 150 U, II-1° of the General Tax Code). When the property is held through a company…
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...became a partner in the company. Do I have to declare the company's profits? No. When ownership of shares is divided between a usufructuary and a bare owner, it is up to the usufructuary to declare the sums he or she receives from the company's profits (art. 8 CGI), which…
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Yes. Reminder: In the context of their professional activity, a sole proprietor risks their personal assets if the business incurs debts. As an exception, the law provides a mechanism to protect the primary residence by making it automatically unseizable (Article L526-1, paragraph 1 of the Commercial Code). You can also…
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