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Running a business in France: every English guide to setting up, managing and contracting
Removing a French SARL manager depends on statutory majorities and the company’s articles (Commercial Code, L223-25 and L223-29). A controller must notify a personal-data breach to the competent authority unless risk to individuals is unlikely, without undue delay and, where feasible, within 72 hours of becoming aware of it (GDPR, article 33). This index groups our guides on setting up, running and contracting for a business in France.
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Setting up, running or leaving a company: which documents should you prepare?
SAS articles, shareholders’ agreement, share transfers, registered office, management and the manager’s dividends, the first employee, dissolution and disputes between partners.
- Setting up a company in France as a non-resident founder
- France branch vs subsidiary vs liaison office
- Beneficial ownership of a French company with a foreign parent
- Review a French shareholders’ agreement
- Shareholder disputes in France: removal, exclusion, abuse
- Transfer French SAS shares: prepare the file
- Repaying a French shareholder loan
- Prepare French SCI meeting minutes
- Change a French company’s registered office
- Prepare a French company manager’s resignation
- Prepare a French company’s voluntary dissolution
- French business structures: micro, EI, EURL, SASU, SARL, SAS
- French annual accounts: 6 months to approve, then file
- Insolvency filing in France: the 45-day deadline
- Register a company in France: steps, costs and timeline
- First employee in France: documents and registers
- French SAS articles of association: compulsory clauses
- Majority manager dividends in France: the 10% rule
Website, invoices, data, taxes: what must a business do and protect?
Legal notices, terms of sale, invoices, GDPR, VAT, e-reporting and the business property contribution (CFE).
- Legal notice on a French website: the 2026 list by status
- GDPR for a small business in France: 8 practical duties
- French GDPR processor agreement
- French ecommerce terms checklist
- French invoice information checks
- Prepare French VAT registration for a foreign company
- Prepare a French VAT representative appointment
- French e-reporting rules for foreign companies
- CFE in France 2026: minimum base, exemptions, payment
Clients and partners: how do you secure contracts and get paid?
Quotes, confidentiality, copyright, trademarks, non-conforming goods, unpaid invoices, ending a commercial relationship.
- Unpaid invoice in France: the freelancer’s 5 steps
- Commercial termination in France: check the notice
- Changing an accepted quote
- Review a French confidentiality agreement
- French copyright assignment scope
- Prepare a French trademark filing
- Review a personal guarantee for a French business loan
- Check and challenge an URSSAF formal notice
- Non-conforming goods from a French supplier: what to do
Commercial lease and business: what should you check?
Renewal, rent, assignment, short or professional lease, lease of a business (location-gérance).
- French commercial lease checklist for a foreign company
- Prepare a French commercial lease renewal
- Check unclamping of French commercial rent
- Check a French commercial lease transfer
- French short-term commercial lease
- Compare professional and commercial leases in France
- French business lease-management
- Buying a French business: records
- French commercial lease: the 3-year exit, 6 months ahead
Associations: how do you draft or amend the articles, or dissolve?
The articles, their amendment and dissolution.