Paris Firm
With its 12.5 million inhabitants, the Metropole du Grand Paris is a player in the league of the world's metropolises.
We are pleased and are proud to advise you here in the beautiful 16th arrondissement, conveniently situated between the Eiffel Tower and the Bois de Boulogne, since early 2019.
We can advise you as a French company close to home in Paris, if you are looking to invest in Germany and need a building permit, a plant permit or a project-related development plan. We will also be pleased to handle the founding or acquisition of a German subsidiary for you.
Advising French companies in Germany
Legal framework parameters
Setting up a foreign subsidiary has been greatly simplified in both Ger-many and France over the last few years:
Both countries now offer simple legal forms with little capital tied up that can be quickly entered in the pertinent register. Not even notarised au-thentication is needed nowadays.
But it is ever more complicated to set up a factory or plant in the perti-nent neighbouring country. In particular, European law requirements of-ten make the procurement of a building permit, an emission control ap-proval or a plant operation permit a protracted process, one in which you as the investor have to deal with numerous public authorities, but also neighbours and environmental protection bodies. Environmental impact assessments or preassessments have to be carried out, nature and species protection expertises obtained, compensation areas for interference with nature and landscape defined and nature and environmental stipulations in the approval heeded. Due to the cramped space in Germany, even areas outside conurbations are seeing conflicts between different types of use, such as residential use, industrial and trade use, transport routes, energy systems, flora-fauna habitats and other protected areas.
Our range of services
We can advise you as a French company on the implementation your investment decision in Germany:
- with the preparation of development plans tailored to your project
- with the conclusion of site development contracts and urban development contracts with local councils
- with the procurement of a building permit, an emission control approval or other operating permit
- on planning approval procedures with public participation
- on conflicts between your project and species protection, nature protec-tion or landscape protection
- with environmental impact assessments and pre-assessments
- with fire protection regulation issues
- with the change of use for buildings
- with renewable energies law
- with the construction and operation of wind turbines, photovoltaic plant or operation of company power plants
- with the acquisition of sites with due regard for all statutory require-ments, such as land transaction permits, local council rights of first re-fusal etc.
- with the judicial enforcement of permits and approvals
- with the defending of third-party law suits (neighbours, environmental associations) against your permits and approvals
- with noise or odour emissions conflicts with neighbours
- with environmental law due diligences as part of M+A projects
- in waste legislation
- in procurement law for public tenders
