Notary for business: specialist in business law

Updated on Monday 16 March 2026

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Setting up a compagny

Updated on Tuesday 6 January 2026

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.

Updated on Thursday 15 January 2026

The Limited Liability Sole Trader status

Businnessman, whether craftspeople, traders, farmers or micro-trader, self-employed professionals, may opt to be classified as a sole trader with limited liability (EIRL).

Updated on Friday 17 February 2023

Should you set up an SCI to hold your professional real estate?

A business manager may be required to acquire the premises in which he operates his business. The question of the method for holding professional real estate presents legal, economic and tax issues.

Updated on Monday 16 March 2026

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.

Updated on Tuesday 16 January 2024

Business owner, which matrimonial regime to choose?

The matrimonial regime fixes the rights and obligations of each spouse on the goods and the debts. Trader, craftsman, farmer, liberal professional, independent worker or industrial: reflect it well!

Manage your professional assets

Updated on Thursday 29 June 2023

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.

Updated on Wednesday 8 April 2026

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.

Updated on Thursday 8 February 2024

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.

Manage your own agricultural company

Updated on Friday 13 January 2017

Different types of agricultural companies

Farming, including its legal aspects, is changing all the time.

Updated on Thursday 29 June 2023

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.

Updated on Wednesday 14 February 2024

Assigning a lease to non-family members

Where the lessor and the tenant agree, the law allows them to draw up a lease that can be assigned to non-family members

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Updated on Monday 23 January 2023

Loans for assignies agricultural properties

The law on French agricultural orientation gives tax advantages to farmers who sell their business to young farmers.

Updated on Tuesday 12 March 2024

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.

Updated on Thursday 15 February 2024

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.

Updated on Thursday 14 April 2022

Dutreil Pact and transfer of a family business

The Dutreil pact allows, under certain conditions, to allow the transfer of a family business and benefit from an exemption through free transfer duties up to three-quarters of its value.

Updated on Friday 17 February 2023

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.

A question ? Need help ?

It depends. The 10-day withdrawal right applies to non-professional buyers (Article L 271-1 CCH). If the SCI’s purpose includes real estate acquisition, it may be deemed professional (Cass. 3rd Civ., 24 Oct. 2012, No. 11-18.774).

Yes. In civil companies, management may be carried out by someone who is not even a partner (Civil Code, Article 1846).

Yes. In civil companies, management may be carried out by someone who is not even a partner (Civil Code, Article 1846).

No. To be able to benefit from a deferred salary claim, the descendants of the deceased farmer must be over the age of 18 and participate directly and effectively in the operation. However, they must not have been associated with profits and losses, nor received salaries in cash (L.321-13 C…

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Notary for business: specialist in business law

Setting up a compagny

Manage your professional assets

Manage your own agricultural company

Pass on/Resume

A question ? Need help ?

I bought a flat through a real estate company (SCI). Does the 10-day cooling-off period apply?

I created a family property company (SCI) with my son: I hold usufruct and he holds bare ownership of the shares. Can I be the manager?

How can I pass on my business to my children?

I created a family property company (SCI) with my son: I hold usufruct and he holds bare ownership of the shares. Can I be the manager?

My father owned and operated a farm. My brother participated in this activity without being paid but received the profits from the exploitation. Can he claim a deferred salary as part of our father's estate?