Corporate law/ Business law

 Externalegal’s lawyers assist you in the process of incorporating your company.

  Each corporate form has its own specificities.
 
Externalegal helps you find a corporate form adapted to your needs and goals:
 
· société à responsabilité limitée (SARL)
· entreprise unipersonnelle à responsabilité limitée (EURL)
· société d’exercice libéral à responsabilité limitée (SELARL)
· société anonyme (SA)
· société par actions simplifiée (SAS)
· société par actions simplifiée unipersonnelle (SASU)
· société en nom collectif (SNC)
· société civile professionnelle (SCP)
· société civile immobilière (SCI)

 Executive’s status is different depending to the corporate form. The tax regime applicable to the executive's remuneration and the applicable social security regime vary depending on the corporate form of the company. Externalegal advises you and gives you all the information you need to understand all these different legal, tax and social implications.
 

 Carrying on a commercial activity implies the use of tangible assets (land, buildings, offices, factories, industrial equipment, machines and industrial tools, transport equipment, computer equipment) and intangible assets such as the software used by your company, the trademarks and patents registered by the company.
 
Externalegal assists you in protecting your intangible assets:
 
-choice of trademark and strategy for the trademark registration
-review of the software license agreements used
-review of the transfer conditions of intellectual property rights

 Externalegal assits you in the study and understanding of the applicable collective agreement(s) and in identifying the provisions applicable to your employment contracts (job classification, working hours, minimum wages, etc.).
 
We assist you also in the drafting of employment contracts in compliance with the applicable regulations.

  In order to retain and motivate key personnel, our team assists you in the implementation of equity compensation plans.
 
We have a well-known expertise with regard to:
 
·      Bons de souscriptions de parts de créateurs d’entreprises (BSPCE)
·      Attribution d’actions gratuites (AGA)
·      Bons de souscription d’actions (BSA)
·      plans d’intéressement (Manager Incentive)

« Pacta sunt servanda ». Once the corporate form has been determined, it is imperative, in order to prevent conflicts between shareholders and to allow a sane development of the company, to agree in writing on the rules governing the relationship between the shareholders. 
 
Externalegal assists you in writing your articles of association and your shareholders agreements.

Externalegal takes care of all the administrative tasks in relation to your company registration with the trade and company register as well as all advertising formalities.

 Our mission and satisfaction is assist your company in its development. Our offers are intended to make Externalegal a true partner of the company and its managers in its recurring tasks and obligations.
 
Our offer includes:
 
-assistance in the preparation of board meetings
-assistance in the invitation and the drafting of the minutes of ordinary and extraordinary general meetings
-Approval of accounts and regulated agreements (Assistance in drafting and validating management reports drawn up by the management and in the approval of accounts and regulated agreements).
-Statutory modifications (transfer of registered office, change of company name, change of legal representative, sale of shares, capital increase, etc)
-The drafting of current account agreements (conventions de compte courant d’associé)