Bright Avocats advise and assist our business clients on a wide range of legal matters, including commercial property transactions, company and commercial law, employment law, regulatory matters, and resolving litigation/disputes.
This means we can offer a comprehensive commercial law service for your business, whatever your needs.
Our team is well respected for its skill and proficiency, experience and commercial know-how that will support your business’s needs. Our approach is both legally precise and commercially procedural. We can work to tight deadlines, provide clear advice and act quickly to protect your business interests.
For help, please get in touch by calling 00 33 (0)5 61 57 90 86 or use the contact form to ask a question and receive a swift response.
Company and Business Law
Having the right legal framework in place for your business and commercial relationships ensures that you can achieve your commercial goals while staying legally protected. We can help you get your business up and running, expand and take on new clients, ensure you comply with your obligations under company law and assist you with buying or selling a business or company. We draft tailor made documents for your business.
We can advise you on a number of aspects of company and business law, including:
- Commercial contracts e.g., agency, distribution, franchise
- Structuring a business or company
- Buying and selling a business, company or assets
- Mortgages, debentures, guarantees and securities
- Shareholders Agreements
- Service Contracts
- Partnership Agreements
- Terms of Business
- Joint Venture Agreements
- Franchise Agreements
Commercial Property Law
Owning, buying, selling, leasing and building/developing commercial property all come with legal issues that need to be handled correctly to protect your investment and allow you to meet your business goals. Specific French Property Transaction laws apply equally to Commercial entities as they do for private individuals.
Our commercial property lawyers regularly support developers, investors, lenders, commercial landlords and business tenants.
Bright Avocats can help you with commercial property issues including:
Buying and selling property
- Landlord/tenant issues
- Development
- Planning matters
- Environmental and construction issues
- Rent reviews
- Lease renewals
- Service charge, dilapidations, forfeiture and recovery of possession issues
- Mortgages, debentures and securities
Business Dispute Resolution
Legal disputes involving your business can be time-consuming and expensive to resolve, as well as being a serious distraction from the day-to-day running of your operation.
We can help you quickly find positive and commercially efficient outcomes from your disputes. We will help you avoid the need for court action wherever possible and allow you to focus on running your business. Where this is not possible and your case proceeds to court we provide specialist advice and support throughout.
We can advise you concerning a wide range of business disputes, including :
- Debt Recovery and Insolvency
- Property Disputes
- Residential Landlord and Tenant
- Commercial Landlord and Tenant
- Contractual Disputes
- Company and Business Related Disputes
- Professional Negligence Claims
- Commercial Drafting
Insolvency
If your business is facing insolvency, it can be a confusing, intimidating and highly stressful experience. Getting the right legal advice at the earliest opportunity can help you minimise the personal and professional fallout, all the while ensurihg that you fulfil all your legal obligations.
Our litigation team includes a Licensed Insolvency Practitioner with many years of experience who can guide you through the entire insolvency process, providing expert advice .
We can advise on both contentious and non-contentious insolvency issues such as:
- Debt recovery
- Debt enforcement
- Bankruptcy
- Winding up petitions
- Liquidators claims against directors
- Directors disqualification proceedings