Hello everyone,
I am planing to open a company in France.
I need lawer and accountant recommendation.
Or if you have any advice.
Thanks!
It depends what business you are in and what scale your activity will be on and what specific advice and assistance you need, but it may be worth contacting your local Chambre de commerce / Chambre des métiers at an early stage. They will have trained business advisors who can accompany you in your project and can put you in touch with accountants etc.
Opening a LOTI transport company.
I am not located in France at the moment.
Need a lawer to set up the comapny and do other legal stuff for me.
Crikey yes you will need specialists on board all the way with that one.
welcome to the forum.
sounds like youâll need a lot of dosh to get a company off the groundâŠ
Presumably you already have French language skills⊠???
and business experience ???
Your Embassy might well be able to help/advise youâŠ
best of luck
Thats why i am here 
Yeah, not an easy task.
Learning French last 3 month. 
Thank you for advice, i will do that if i dont find anyone.
I would still recommend the chambre de commerce of wherever the business will be based as a first point of contact, especially given the nature of your project.
I would say be very aware that running a business here will be very expensive and there are lots of different social charges you will have to pay especially if you take on employees (even holiday pay gets taken over by a seperate bureau). France is absolutely nothing like the UK for starting a business if that is where the OP is locating from. Therefore get all the info you can before committing to anything because once you start, its not easy to just shut down!
I assumed the OP was not from the UK?
As far as I can see they have said nothing to suggest that they are, and this does not seem at all the kind of venture a Brit would embark on. But could be wrong.
I was replying in case they were from the UK because brits have no idea about french business practices compared to what they are used to and I speak from many years experience here dealing with the likes of URSSAF, Chambre des MÚtiers, Taxes Apprentissage, Bureau de Caisse Congés etc.
If you wish to run a company in France⊠I suggest you wait until you have an excellent command of the French language before any undertakings. 3 months is nowhere near enough.
I do not know your nationality⊠but finding professionals who speak French fluently and can also speak your native tongue⊠is also a good idea⊠if not essential 
Thanks, i am not in France and i dont speak French, thats why i would like to find a lawyer.
Thanks for the heads up. 
I will be only person working. Itd not gona be easy, but i will do my best to have my expences low.
I am from Croatia.
I do look for english/french speaking lawyer and accountant. Thats why i posted here i tought someone had some experience with them.
Thank you for advice. 
@marcopolo
OK you are from CroatiaâŠ
some questionsâŠ
What nationality are you?
Why do you want to come to France and run a company??
What business experience do you have: hands on/behind the scenes ?
Do you have finance in place for the venture you aspire to?
We might be able to offer useful information and advice if we understand the background,
Working in France is not easy⊠and if we can help smooth your way⊠Iâm sure folk will try to help⊠but you do need to be well-prepared and financially sound.
Sounds like the Chambre des MĂštiers will be your caisse and therefore you will have to take the week long business course everyone has to do to get a SIRET number and be registered with the relevent bodies, even one-man outfits (artisans) etc have to do it and we both did it along with a taxi driver, a crĂȘpe maker and several other artisans in various trades because without a SIRET number you cannot open a business and then you have to be registered for TVA if your business plan goes over the exempt amount. The Chambre can help you with accountants and other legal professionals in the trade to which you wish to start up so I would go there first before you pay through the nose to someone who has no idea. Please do not expect english to be spoken at all, this is France and you have to understand and be able to respond as well as write the language and help is expensive and will take your profits. Good luck anyway but learn french first is my most advisable thing.
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This looks quite a useful summary of the training you will be required to complete before you can start operating. I assume you know all this already. But these are all requirements you will have to meet yourself, a lawyer cannot help you get your qualifications etc. May be a plan to get your qualifications in place first before you start investing in setting up the company, so that you can hit the ground running and start work straight away? (Apologies if this is already your plan.)
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Welcome to the Forum! Youâve made a sensible move by asking for input here. Please accept it as honest advice/experience - within the limits of what information you have provided. Therein lies an immediate problem.
It appears that you havenât a clue what is involved - and you will probably kick against the response that you get. Please donât.
Firstly - your concept that you need 1] âa lawyerâ; and 2] an accountant. Neither of these are your first priorities. There isnât really such a simple thing as âa lawyerâ in France. It sounds like you want someone to advise you what to do, and set up a company for you (in some appropriate French form). Company formation is very complex here. You must learn and understand. Never assume. Donât trust anyone to âdo it for youâ. There is, putting it simply, no such thing as just âa companyâ here.
As for accountants - they are not creative in France. They rely on you to provide them with what they want, not the other way around. So donât expect them to do what you have to do.
As you are not actually in France, I can understand that you think that you can just instruct someone here to do it all for you, remotely.
Forget it, MarcoPolo. Thatâs not how it works (not only in France, of course).
You obviously have an (undisclosed) reason for setting up a LOTI transport business here. Thatâs a very specifically focused business. Essentially it is a person licenced to carry people for reward (but not a taxi business).
My advice is - 1] Arrange with whoever you plan to provide this transport for to visit them; 2] get on your bike and come over to France; 3] Book the services of a translator to accompany you; 4] Visit the Chambre de Commerce that covers the area where your customer operates
(or is Headquartered, if it is a national concept)
5] Question them; and learn about the alternatives that meet the requirements of your customer. 6] Then register your business accordingly - they will suggest a contact.
Courage, mon brave!
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