Close, sell or buy a French companyby the rules
Give us the company's name. Legal Rescue reads what the French registry and courts have published, and explains what can happen next, in plain English, with the law behind it.
Your situation
Every situation has its rules.
Your own French company, a business you want to buy or sell, or proceedings already open: different rules apply. Start with yours.
What Legal Rescue does
Everything about the company, in one place.
Give the company's name. Legal Rescue gathers what concerns it, in English, so you can move at your own pace without missing anything:
- the proceedings open to it, criterion by criterion
- the dates, starting with the filing deadline
- the documents to attach to a filing
- the competent court, with its address
Proceedings · checked
Dates · calculated
Filing · prepared
CompanyBoulangerie des PentesLyon
How it works
Three steps.
1
You give the company's name
Or describe the situation in your own words.
My SARL has not paid URSSAF since 25 October.
2
You know where it stands
What the court has published, the possible proceedings, the dates.
Simplified liquidation possibleFile before 9 DecemberLyon commercial court
3
You go ahead, alone or with a lawyer
You file yourself, or a partner lawyer takes over, at a price stated before any commitment.
Who we are
Behind every company that closes, there is a life.
Yours, your family's, sometimes your employees'. Closing is not a failure, it is a procedure, with its rules and its dates. Legal Rescue explains them from your situation, so you can decide with a clear head. When a choice has to be made, a partner lawyer takes over.
- Free to startThe answers and the company check cost nothing.
- Nothing made upEvery answer cites the text or notice it comes from.
- Never legal adviceChoosing a procedure is a lawyer's job.
55 345liquidations published in the BODACC in 12 months
1 001articles in Book VI of the French Commercial Code
134commercial and economic activities courts
BODACC, Légifrance, French public administration directory, November 2026.Before you decide, check the company.
Free, and you will know where it stands.