Notary for business: specialist in business law

Updated on Monday 16 March 2026

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Setting up a compagny

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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).
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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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No. Case law holds that “the usufructuary of company shares cannot be recognized as having partner status, which belongs exclusively to the bare owner” (see Cass. Com., advisory opinion, 1 Dec. 2021; Cass. 3rd Civ., 16 Feb. 2022, No. 20-15.164). Moreover, an SCI must have at least two partners (Art…
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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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Yes but, only if the net assets of the estate exceed 39,000 euros (art. D.815-4 of the Social Security Code). The net estate assets correspond to the difference between the gross assets, made up of the property, rights and claims belonging to the deceased and the debts for which the…
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No. When the owner of premises for commercial use has notified the tenant of his intention to sell this property, this notification constitutes an offer to sell to the benefit of the tenant. If he accepts it, he has a period of two months to complete the sale, from the…
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