French business law · Lancier Avocats
French Corporate Legal Support for International Businesses
Your French company needs legal decisions and documents after registration. Lancier Avocats provides a direct French legal point of contact for growing international businesses and works alongside their existing advisers in English or French.
01 / Key considerations
Keep corporate decisions properly documented.
Define the recurring corporate work and who provides the figures, instructions and approvals. An accountant’s work and a lawyer’s corporate work are complementary and have separate scopes.
- Annual approvals and filing based on the accountant’s figures
- Changes to capital, directors or the registered office
- Corporate registers and governance documents
- Shareholder arrangements and decision-making rules
02 / Key considerations
Support business relationships and investment.
As operations grow, review the contracts and corporate arrangements around the real commercial relationship. Work can be agreed for a specific document, negotiation or transaction.
- Commercial and intragroup contracts
- Investment and fundraising documentation
- Shareholder negotiations and share transfers
- Coordination with the business’s other advisers
03 / Key considerations
Prepare reorganisations and transactions.
Acquisitions, disposals and group changes involve their own timetable and legal work. They should be scoped as transactions rather than treated as an extension of a standard incorporation filing.
- French corporate legal due diligence
- Acquisitions and disposals
- Corporate reorganisations
- Defined deliverables, milestones and responsibilities
Practical questions
Before you choose.
General information, not advice on a particular project. For official background, see Business France’s establishment options and company formation steps.
Legal services are provided by Lancier Avocats. View Guillaume Prom Thiounn’s professional profile.
A continuing legal relationship
Your French legal partner
beyond incorporation.
Setting up your French company is only the first step. As your business develops, Lancier Avocats can continue to assist with governance, contracts, shareholder matters, investments, reorganisations and M&A.
- Formation
- Governance
- Contracts
- Investment
- Growth / M&A
Annual corporate approvals · Changes in capital or management · Shareholder arrangements
Commercial contracts · Fundraising · Reorganisations · Acquisitions and disposals
Your next step
Let’s make France
part of your story.
Wherever you are based, tell us what you’re building. Your lawyer will help you see the way forward.