Services for the Small and Medium Size Business

We provide services for business by acting as your inter-cultural "interpreter", helping you to understand how the legal system and cultural overlay affect your expectations and can impacts on business strategy and results. We assist companies to create entities in France, conforming with their business and growth needs. French law offers a variety of business entities. Should you create a branch? Should it be a liaison, or representation, office? Should you create a commercial company, and if so, which one of the several available corporate forms? Each has its own characteristics, adaptable to your corporate business needs. We help you to understand the pros and cons of each, as they affect your international business plan. In doing so, we emphasize not only the corporate and commercial aspects of your intended operations, but the tax, social security, and visa/work permit implications. We also advise on employment issues, including tax-effective employment contracts, and the legal requirements and consequences of laying off workers. We explain how the system of industry-wide collective bargaining agreements ("conventions collectifs") may affect your company and its employees.