Business & Corporate Law Department
You are planning to setup your business in France, or you are already doing business here?
Setting up and doing business in France require a thorough understanding of its complex legal framework.
You need help to define your business model in France and to manage the legal requirement of your activity: setting up a branch office or subsidiary, taking over an existing company, establishing contractual partnerships with local businesses, developing a distribution network, carrying out legal formalities, drafting legal documents, legal advice, etc.
At Cofime, 5 business law experts and 9 legal assistants, located all over Alsace as well as in Paris, handle these issues on a daily basis. We are here to help you with all your business law needs.
How can we help?
Our missions
- drafting of your company's articles of association and execution of the incorporation formalities with the relevant authorities, or registration of your sole proprietorship
- approval and filing of the annual financial statements of your company with the trade register
- drafting of legal documents regarding the acquisition process: letter of intent, shareholders' agreement, share purchase agreement, representation, warranties agreement, etc.
- performing all changes during the life of the company: change of company form, transfer of registered office, change of company name, modification of corporate purpose, capital increase / reduction, etc.
- assistance and counselling for complex restructuring operations such as M&A and negotiation
- issuance of securities of all kinds: preference shares, bonus shares, bonds, convertible bonds etc.
- drafting and compliance check of contractual documents and commercial practices required for your business operations: lease contracts, general terms and conditions, distribution contracts, service agreements, sub-contracting agreements, commercial agent contracts, IP/IT contracts etc.
- assistance in debt collection: formal notice, judicial request for payment order, etc.
- assistance in case of business closure: completion of the formalities for winding up and liquidating your business until deleted from the trade register
- compliance of your contractual documents and commercial practices with competition, distribution and consumer laws and regulations
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