Setting up in France

We advise you in your choice 

Whatever your business development strategy may be, you can set up a permanent or temporary structure, establish new local operations or build up and take over an existing local business
  • Set up a new structure: Choosing a business structure depends on your growth strategy and the degree of independence that the French operations are to have from the parent company
    • Smart Analysis, with its legal partners, brings its expertise to optimize your choice of the appropriate legal structure
      • Secondary office :
        • Liaison/representation office : This office is not, necessarly, a permanent establishment with respect to tax laws. It may conduct only a very limited amount of non commercial operations, such as prospecting, advertising, providing information,storing merchandise. Invoices must be issued by the parent company, which must also sign any and all contracts
        • Branch : This permanent structure enables foreign companies to establish a foothold in France for a commercial activity. It can carry out all the operations of an industrial or commercial company, but is not a separate entity and the mother company is responsible for its actions
      • Subsidiary : This is a company incorporated under French law. A subsidiary is entitled to renewable commercial leases and can enter into agreements in sales, technical royalties, commissions, management fees …A subsidiary becomes a separate legal entity when it is registered in the Company Register (Registre du Commerce et des Sociétés – RCS).  Choosing a legal structure will affect the company’s legal status, taxes, assets and employment relations. Main types of limited liability company are: EURL, SARL, SA, SAS …
    • Smart Analysis manages all the administrative aspects (legal, accountancy…) of this establishment
        • Office and business location requirements
        • Recruitment/Interim management
        • Sales forces management
        • Legal management (clearance, customs, contracts …)
        • Accounting and financial outsourcing, activity follow up
  • Search for external growth opportunities:
  • Joint venture setting/ M&A operations
  • Targeted companies identification to acquire
  • Negotiation assistance
  • Go-between and coordination

Local expansion

Establish new operations Searching and furnishing of  professional  offices Hiring of sales forces Human resources back-office management  External growth Identification and direct search for targeted companies Feasibility surveys before mergers and acquisitions Financing search Main deliverables Legal registration documents Company regulation Commercial leases Accountanting follow up Presentation document of companies to take over Financial valorization studies

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