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Legal & Tax

Helping you meet your obligations

Exponens is at your side to guide you and assist you with your business project. Regardless of your company’s size, you face legal obligations when adapting your structure, creating new activities, and expanding domestically or internationally.

Our lawyers and tax specialists put their expertise at your service depending on your needs and the vision you have for your project. Through our advisory services, we offer you our specific skills and experience in corporate, business and tax law.

Creation of a company &

legal structure

Whether you wish to set up a company or structure it, Exponens can assist you with your project. We will advise you on the choice of the most appropriate legal form, prepare the legal documents and perform the necessary formalities until you obtain your certificate of registration (Kbis).

In connection with legal structuring or restructuring operations, our teams will analyse the issues for each entity depending on the desired objective, and take the appropriate measures.

In addition, we have solid experience in assisting groups established abroad that wish to do business in France. We assist them in creating their subsidiary, branch or liaison office, help them register for VAT if they carry out transactions subject to VAT in France even if they do not have an establishment in France, and assist them if an acquisition audit is carried out.

Starting your business

Choice of corporate form, assistance in obtaining business start-up aid, completing registration formalities, obtaining a certificate of registration.

Domiciling your company

Benefit from a registered address in the Paris area and free yourself from constraints thanks to our business domiciliation service.

Structuring your company and/or group

Carrying out securities transfers, creating a holding company, incorporating an individual business, universal transfers of assets, partial contributions of assets and mergers.

Choosing your corporate officer status

We will advise you on the choice of the most appropriate corporate officer social security and tax regime.

Day-to-day company management

All companies must comply with legal obligations, such as the approval of their financial statements and other specific obligations. Obligations also apply when your company evolves or changes its corporate officers or legal form.

In all situations in the day-to-day lives of companies, our teams are available to assist you with legal secretarial matters in order to ensure that your entity is in compliance with its legal obligations.

Approval of the annual financial statements and distribution of dividends

In conjunction with the accounting teams, we will draw up the legal documents required for the approval of the annual financial statements.

Monitor and update legal registers

We can carry out legal obligations such as keeping an up-to-date list of beneficial owners and keeping the statutory register of general meetings and/or securities transfers.

Amending the articles of association and/or registration certificate

During the company’s existence, we can perform the formalities required to amend the articles of association, change corporate officers, transfer the registered office, carry out capital transactions, expand the corporate purposes, etc.

Conducting legal audits of companies

We will prepare a report on the company’s legal situation and ensure it is remedied

Drafting contracts

& leases

Our lawyers can assist you in your contractual relationships with your shareholders and/or third parties by drafting your contracts, shareholders’ agreements and leases.

  • Drafting agreements:
    Agreements governing management fees, the provision of services, debt write-offs, cash management.
  • Drafting leases:
    Commercial leases, sublease agreements, business leases, leases for furnished/equipped premises.
  • Organising relationships between shareholders:
    Shareholders’ agreements, share transfer agreements and asset and liability warranty agreements.

Contact our expert partners

Sophie Breton

+33 (0)1 49 29 55 38

Paris Gare de Lyon

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Sophie Breton joined Exponens in 1994 after two years with KPMG. After taking charge of chartered accountancy assignments in a variety of fields, she set up the real estate department in 2005, providing accounting and tax assistance (bookkeeping, auditing, reporting, tax compliance, due diligence, etc.) for French and foreign real estate companies and investment funds.

In 2008, she initiated the development within the Exponens group of specific expertise in OPCI accounting, which today enables her to offer a range of services specifically dedicated to this type of real estate vehicle. Sophie Breton regularly runs professional training courses on this subject, and participates in the work of the accounting committee of the Association Française des Sociétés de Placement Immobilier (ASPIM).

Within Exponens, Sophie is a member of the Quality & Ethics Committee.

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