Unfortunetely, even if trusts exist in France, French Law prohibits them from managing a company for their clients.
How to delegate the managment of your French branch from abroad ?
French trusts are only entitled to look after your estate on your behalf, but could not manage, on its own responsibility, a company.
However, other options exist.
Options to run a business in France when you are a non-resident:
- You can manage your company from abroad, even if this means you will not be frequently in France to deal with French authorities, partners, clients, etc., nor deal with the specificity of French clients
- You can decide to conclude a joint-venture with a French company, and ask her to manage your company
- You can decide to hire a director for your company, entitled to run your business (as a timeshare or full-time employee, freelance, etc.)
- You can mandate a represent, such as a law firm, to manage parts or all of your legal and administrative obligations, without any risk for your company (lawyers are not able fulfill commercial activities and are forced by legal priviledge to disclose any information, business secrets, etc.).
Our law firm is inclined to offer a full-service. Please note that our law firm is entitled to represent your French company through different acts.
Which kind of services can our law firm offer to manage your company?
- Domiciliation: we are able to provide domiciliation to companies in our office or negociate for you with a French domiciliation company (Paris, Lyon, Nantes, etc.).
- Administrative issues: our law firm can offer you a full service to take care of your administrative issues (postmail, call service, copy, dematerialization, cloud, etc.) – for domiciliated companies in our office only
- Legal obligations: as a law firm, we are entitled to take care of all your legal obligations (setup your company, deal with your legal annual obligations, edit your contracts, negociate with your partners, etc.)
- Accountancy: a lawyer is not able to provide accountancy service to his clients. However, we are able to check your tax returns and to edit and manage your contracts. By signing a contract with an online accountant, we will be able to check and fulfill your tax returns and to take care of your accountancy obligations
- RH issues: via our partners, we can help you with hiring (or dismissing) one of your employees in France. We also can help you or your foreign employees to move and settle down in France., and with their tax obligations.
Why is My Business in France the best option for incorporating a company in France ?
#1 Confidentiality: Note that all communications between lawyers and their clients (or communications received by lawyers for their clients) are submitted to legal priviledge. Your data will be safe. It is an administrative and criminal offense for a lawyer to sell or disclose his clients’ data (partners, associates, clients, creation, business secrecy, etc.), or for a cyber-pirate to collect them.
#2 Convenience: your lawyer will be directly in charge of all your legal obligations (tax returns, accountancy review, statement of accounts, legal obligations, etc.). You won’t waste time by sending your documents from your delegate to your lawyers, and will also limit the risk of uncomplete informations. On top of that, it will be easy for you to meet your lawyer when you will visit your domiciliation room.
#3 Security: it is easy to understand that mandating a law firm to take care of your legal and administrative obligations is more secured than delegating the same obligations to other intervenants (no mistakes, reglementation perfectly known, etc.). During tax audits, the informations and documentions involved that are located in a law firm are protected by specific rules (a specific judge has to be present with bar authorities, etc.).
#4 Effectivness: our service will be safer, quicker and better, without being more expensive.
Feel free to contact us and discover more about services we can offer you.
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