Corporate law
We advise your company from incorporation to succession, and on every decision that counts in between.
See the dedicated pageAdvising you before the question becomes a problem.
A business law firm since 1993.
Advice and support for company directors in the Basque Country, Béarn and the Landes.
Thirty minutes, free of charge.
Long enough to understand your situation, tell you what we would do, and give you the cost before you commit.
Book a meetingBy video call, at the Bayonne office or at the Pau office — you choose when you book. Without obligation.
Practice areas
Securing before repairing.
Advice first, litigation when it becomes necessary. A practice built for the region’s SMEs and their advisers.
Business goodwill and commercial leases
The lease is often a trader’s first asset, and its first source of dispute. We are there at signature, not only at notice to quit.
See the dedicated pageBusiness sales and restructuring
A business sells well when it has been prepared months in advance. That, and not the signature, is where the price is settled.
See the dedicated pageTax law
Tax is not something to be endured; it is worked out before deciding. We cost the options while there is still time to choose.
See the dedicated pageCommercial litigation
When negotiation has failed, the courtroom remains. We prepare it with the same rigour as the advice that came before it.
See the dedicated pageFive further practice areas
We also work in these fields, with the same level of detail.
All practice areasTen practice areas, ten sectors
A sale of business goodwill for a restaurant owner on the coast.
A matter always sits where a field of law meets a line of work. We work on both.
Your sector
We know your line of work before we know your file.
Every profession has its standard contracts, its pitfalls and its calendar. We advise these sectors across the whole range of their legal issues.
Medical and allied health professions
From setting up in practice to selling it on, by way of the partnership that turns sour.
See the dedicated pageStart-ups and young companies
Choosing the right structure at the outset costs little; correcting it two years later, in the middle of a fundraising, costs a great deal.
See the dedicated pageHotels, restaurants and retail
A trade that turns on three things: the lease, the season and the value of the goodwill on the day you sell.
See the dedicated pageIndependent professions and practices
Choosing a structure, taking on a partner, parting ways: the three moments when a practice is weakened for good.
See the dedicated pageIndustry, construction and skilled trades
Production sites, subcontracting and building sites: contracts signed quickly, argued over at length, and unpaid invoices that always arrive at the wrong moment.
See the dedicated pageFive further sectors
Each with its own page, its frequently asked questions and its own reflexes.
All sectorsThe firm
One firm, nine professionals, one point of contact.
One lawyer holds your file and remains your point of contact. Each question is handled by whichever of us deals with it every day — you have only one person to call.
Five lawyers, one clerk and three assistants, between Bayonne and Pau.
See the whole team
David
Sébastien
Anthony
Sandrine
Aurélie
Maryse
Catherine
Émilie
OdileOur offices
Bayonne and Pau, one team.
Your file stays with the same lawyer, whichever office it was opened in.
Our network
A good decision is rarely taken alone.
A legal structure is only worth having if it also holds up in accounting, tax, wealth and financing terms. So we never work in isolation: thirty years of practice in the region have given us a network of professionals we know personally, and to whom we point you as soon as your file calls for it.
Chartered accountants
Notaries
Wealth management advisers
Insurers and brokers
Banks, funds and lenders
Statutory auditors
We never replace a company’s usual adviser: we work with them, or we introduce you to the one you are missing. An introduction is not charged for and gives rise to no referral fee — professional conduct rules forbid it, and that is what makes the recommendation credible.
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