Our areas
of practice

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Business law

We support business players in all stages of their social and professional life.

Whether it is regarding your business’s creation, the difficulties and questions related to its exercise or extension, or even its termination, our law firm “1792 Avocats” is here to guide you and help you implement your business strategy.

A difficulty related to a commercial lease? An extraordinary general meeting to be convened? A contract to set up or put an end to? The law firm 1792 Avocats is here for you.

1Companies’ creation and managing social life
- Creating companies’ statutes, partners’ agreements, franchises, or incentive schemes (such as stock-options, BSPCE or BSA),
- Acquisition and sale of French fonds de commerce (brand awareness, location and business capital) or companies,
- Redaction and enforcement of representations and warranties agreements,
2Business litigation
- Debt recovery,
- Responsibility for late or non-conform deliveries,
- Non-performance and contractual faults,
- Unfair competition and parasitism,
- Breach of stable contractual or commercial relationships.
3Commercial leases
- Drafting and negotiation of the lease,
- Fixation and revision of its price,
- Denunciation, termination and resolution of the lease,
- Responsibility of the lessor / lessee,
- Indemnity for eviction.
4Distribution agreements
- Strategic and operational consulting for the network implementation,
- Creating the network’s contracts (franchise and distribution agreements, sales agents agreements, affiliation agreements…),
- Contractual audits,
- Help in negotiating the “agreements of March 1st”,
- Litigation (unfair competition, unfair market practices, delisting, significant imbalances, economic dependence…).
5Liquidation / Bankruptcy
- File Bankruptcy (“Cessation des paiements”) to Commercial Courts,
- Transfer of the employment contracts,
- File statement of credits and dispute/litigation over these claims,
- Negotiations with the banks, New money privilege and taking of related guarantees,
- Reclamation of the Liquidation / Bankruptcy company with the Judge.
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Real estate law

Real estate law encompasses all situations relating to the acquisition, sale or enjoyment of a property, and the 1792 Avocats law firm accompanies and advises you during all difficulties that you may encounter with your investors, sellers, trustees, tenants, co-owners, or contractors.

Are you worried that the major real estate project near you will damage your apartment? Your tenant/owner refuses to answer? Have you withdrawn from the purchase of a property and the seller wishes to keep the down-payment capital allowance? We're here to help you.

1VEFA (Sale in future state of completion) and CCMI (Construction of a single unit residential complex)
- Reduced VAT rate,
- Delays in construction and/or delivery and their consequences,
- Intervention of a professional not initially appointed,
- Failure/Insolvency of the promoter or the project,
- Implementation of the external guarantee.
2The sale and purchase of real estate
- Choosing the pre-contract for the sale or purchase,
- Non-compliant loan applications, delays and retention of the down-payment of capital allowance,
- Defense or responsibility of the intermediaries (real estate agent or notary public).
3Construction work, co-ownership and trustee
- Defects and non-compliance of the contractor's works,
- Powers and responsibility of the trustee,
- Relationships with the co-owners,
- Preventive referrals.
4Sociétés civiles immobilières (Civil real estate companies)
- Disagreements between partners,
- Authorization to withdraw from the company,
- Optimizing the company's taxes on dividends or income and related rights.
 
 
 

Labour law

Strong support in business law requires a thorough skill in labour law as well as the intricacies of employment law which are no mystery to our members.

We assist our clients in managing all labour law issues. A one-time question? A contract to write? A dismissal procedure to be initiated or to be challenged?

From recruitment to breach of contract, the “1792 Avocats” law firm is there to enlighten you.

1Individual relationships
- Drafting and amending the employment contracts (including special statuses, eg executives, VRP, journalists and/or sensitive clauses, eg mobility, non-competition, non-solicitation, annualized working time),
- Termination by mutual consent,
- Dismissal procedures and the related litigation (for personal reasons [disciplinary, non-disciplinary, incapacity...] or economic reasons).
2Collective relations
- Negotiating enterprise agreements,
- Establishing and renewing staff representative institutions.
3Social audit
- Before the acquisition of a business or industry,
- Compliance with existing rules and regulations regarding a company or one of its branch’s activities,
- Legality or obligation to transfer of employees (L1224-1 of the French Labor Code).
4USSRAF controls
- Partial activity (partial unemployment),
- Self-employment (“auto-entrepreneur”) or employment.
5Posting of employees
A company based outside France sends its employees to France to provide services.
 
 
 

Other (General civil law)

General civil law is part of the basic practice and training of any French lawyer, and the “1792 Avocats” law firm stands by your side to advise and represent you in all your difficulties in this matter, including property law, obligations and special contracts law, security law, and family property law.

1Responsibility of professionals
Including financial investment advisors (CIF), wealth management advisors, insurers...
2Consumer law
- Unbalanced professional-consumer relations,
- Abusive clauses,
- Non-conform deliveries, delays or absence of delivery,
- Refund of airfares and compensation.
3Loans and bonds
- Dispute over or nullifying of the guarantee agreement,
- Non-liability of the guarantor,
- Sanction/penalty of the professional’s non-compliance with his warning obligations of information, and/or advice,
- Forfeiture of the borrowing interest.
4Inheritance
- Asserting an heir’s rights,
- Abuse of the physical or mental weakness and manipulation of the testator,
-Estate reports (Rebalancing the inheritance after too many donations from the deceased during his lifetime) and reintegration of life insurance premiums into this inheritance,
- Exit from estate divisions by co-ownership (Judicial Resolution).-
5Brits in France during and after the Brexit transition period
- (under and after the Withdrawal Agreement)
- Applicable tax on income or assets,
- Affiliation to a social security and social protection system,
- Rental / purchase agreement of the property.

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