Investments and Establishing business in France or abroad

(Investing France and abroad)

We assist our client entrepreneurs, companies and startups wishing to carry out investment and installation projects in France or abroad.

De plus, nous vous proposons d’examiner les structures juridiques possibles, ainsi que l’ensemble des enjeux juridiques et fiscaux liés à vos projets afin de vous proposer les solutions les plus efficientes.

Finally, we also make sure of you:
- Support in the procedures necessary for your installation
- Advise on all mobility issues related to your installation
- Represent in all investment protocol negotiations
- Assist in the development of your financing operations (ex: credit operations etc.)
- Support in carrying out investment operations (eg creation of investment funds, restructuring, etc.)
- Defend in the event of litigation or in the context of investment arbitrations.

Voir tous nos articles sur les investissements et l’installation de sociétés en France ou à l’Étranger

Should we choose European society? (Fr)

A guide for business in Cameroon (En)

Legal aspects of setting up French companies abroad: the example of the United States (Fr)

CETA - 4. Investment protection (En)

CETA - 4. Investment protection (Fr)

Cameroon investment codes (Fr)

How to better succeed in your negotiations with your foreign partners? (Fr)Investing in the United States: Florida's tax advantages (Fr)

The incorporation of a company in Florida (Fr)

Documentary credit law in China (Fr)

The public procurement regime in China (Fr)

The French in the United States and the problem of double taxation (Fr)

International mobility law

(International mobility law)

Our firm advises and assists employees and employers on international mobility issues (posting of employees abroad, the provision of personnel abroad or expatriation), in particular:

✓ Administrative procedures
- Determination of the permitted travel time and the appropriate immigration procedure (eg whether or not it is necessary to obtain a work permit or visa)
- Declarations and communication to various French and foreign social and tax authorities
- Actions related to administrative remedies available

✓ Social protection
- Determination and advice on the social protection scheme applicable to the employee
- Administrative support (declarations, request for submission to a new regime)
- Actions related to the protection of employees' social rights

✓ The employment contract
- Advice and review of international employment contracts as well as the local employment contract of the host country
- Negotiation of the international and local employment contract

✓ Tax component
- Determination and advice on the applicable tax system and the tax consequences for the employee

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CETA - 3. Services market and worker mobility (Fr)

CETA - 3. Trade in services and labor mobility (En)

CETA - 7. Sustainable development, environment and work (Fr)

CETA - 7. Sustainable development, environment and labor (En)

The CSG-CRDS taxable on the income of non-European residents is contrary to European law (Fr)

Working in the United States: L1 and E visas (Fr)

A comparison between Anglo-Saxon and French rights (Fr)

Franchise, Distribution, Competition Law

(Franchise distribution competition law)

Franchise

As a commercial exploitation option which is gaining more and more popularity, this form of distribution nevertheless implies specific rights and obligations and a complex contractual relationship.
This is why we offer advice and assistance to franchisors and franchisees on the following points:

✓ Pre-contractual questions
- Advice on the advantages and disadvantages of the franchise operation
- Advice on network development and organization
- Legal monitoring of the regulations and laws applicable to the franchisor / franchisee relationship

✓ Creation of the Franchise
- Drafting, revision, negotiation of Pre-contractual Information Document (DIP)
- Drafting, revision, negotiation of franchise contract
- Examination, negotiation of the commercial lease, the assignment of the lease or the purchase contract of an already franchised point of sale
- Writing, editing, negotiating the sale of business assets

✓ Legal monitoring of essential aspects of the franchise
- Trademarks and signs / intellectual property
- Transmission of know-how
- Continuous assistance
- Entrance fees and charges
- Commercial contracts (supply, intermediaries etc.)
- Franchise and competition / exclusivity
- Taxation of the franchise

✓ Cessation of the franchise and Litigation / Arbitration
- Advice and support in the procedures for the transfer or transfer of the franchise
- Management of disputes between franchisor / franchisee and arbitration procedures

Distribution

In the various relationships between suppliers of goods and services and distributors (concession, affiliation commission, agency, authorized or selective distribution), we offer the following services to our customers:
- Negotiation, revision and drafting of distribution contracts
- Review and development of the general conditions of sale, purchase and provision of services
- Advice and assistance in the organization of distribution networks
- Assistance and organization of relationships with intermediaries
- Legal monitoring of national, European and international law applicable to distribution and related competition and intellectual property issues
- Management of commercial relations litigation and amicable ruptures

Competition

- Legal monitoring of sectoral, national, European and international laws and regulations of competition law
- Information and audit of anti-competitive (mergers, agreements, abuse of a dominant position) and / or unfair (poaching, parasitism, violation of non-competition, disparagement etc.) practices within the company and advice with a view to their prevention
- Support during inspection and seizure procedures with the authorities (the Competition Authority, the European Commission, etc.)
- Management of the contentious procedure within the framework of actions before the jurisdictions

See all our articles on franchise, distribution and competition law

A guide to exporting to Europe (En)

CETA - 1. Agricultural and food product tariff elimination (En)

CETA - 1. Elimination of agricultural and food customs duties (Fr)

CETA - 2. Industrial tariff elimination (Fr)

CETA - 2. Industrial Tariff elimination (En)

CETA - Introduction (Fr)

United States: the anti-dumping procedure (Fr)

Immaterial rights, intellectual and competition property

(Intellectual and industrial property and immaterial rights)

We are involved in consulting, auditing, negotiating, as well as drafting contracts relating to intangible rights, industrial and intellectual property:
- Brands
- Designs
- Copyright and neighboring rights
- Image rights, sports marketing rights, media law
– Droit de l’Art

We also offer you quality support in the completion of administrative formalities related to the creation and preservation of your rights, while ensuring communication with the various institutional authorities. We also take care of all disputes that may arise from the violation of the aforementioned rights.

See all our articles on intangibles, industrial and intellectual property

CETA - 6. Intellectual property (En)
CETA - 6. Intellectual property

Company law, corporate reorganization

(Company law corporate reorganization)

We advise and support our clients in all aspects of the life of a company, from its creation to its dissolution, through all the questions related to its current management.

✓ Society creation

- Advice on the choice of the most suitable social form for each case
- Drafting of company incorporation documents (statutes, etc.)
- Drafting, revision of shareholder agreements
- Assistance with administrative formalities of incorporation
- Advice on intellectual property matters
- Drafting, review, negotiation of commercial leases

✓ Legal monitoring of the daily activities of the company

- Drafting of account approvals
- Management of formalities related to changes (management, shareholders, share capital, etc.)
- Monitoring formalities (general meetings, record keeping, etc.)
- Drafting, revision of business transfer contracts
- Support during bankruptcy proceedings
- Negotiation and drafting of liability and asset guarantees
- Litigation management

✓ Transformation of society

- Advice and support through restructuring and business transfer operations (mergers, acquisitions, etc.)

✓ End of society

Advice and support through:
- Company dissolution procedures
- The company liquidation procedure
- Sale of business

✓ Bankruptcy proceedings

- Compulsory national and international liquidation
- Reorganization and legal protection of companies
- Domestication and enforcement of foreign bankruptcy judgment

✓ Business Taxation

- Audit and advice on tax issues in the light of various international operations of the company (real estate acquisition, dismemberment of property, financing and investments, transfer pricing etc.)
- Audit and advice on tax issues in light of changes in the company (transfer and transfer of companies etc.)
- Advice on tax optimization in view of international tax laws and conventions in force.

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Should we choose European society? (Fr)