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title: "Business Formation"
url: https://gautelier-avocats.com/en/expertise/business-formation
lang: en
description: "GAUTELIER AVOCATS helps founders and buyers of businesses set up their legal framework: choice of corporate form, articles of association, governance, shareholders’ agreements, first contracts and terms and conditions. The firm is actively involved in the local entrepreneurial ecosystem, notably alongside Initiative Pays Salonais."
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# Business Formation

*Create. Structure. Grow.*

**At a glance** — GAUTELIER AVOCATS helps founders and buyers of businesses set up their legal framework: choice of corporate form, articles of association, governance, shareholders’ agreements, first contracts and terms and conditions. The firm is actively involved in the local entrepreneurial ecosystem, notably alongside Initiative Pays Salonais.

## Starting a business begins with structuring choices

Starting a business means turning an idea into a project, and a project into a going concern. From the very first steps, decisions on legal structure, the allocation of share capital, governance and contractual commitments can have lasting consequences.

GAUTELIER AVOCATS helps founders and buyers of businesses define their legal framework, laying foundations that match their ambitions, their business model and their growth prospects.

Convinced that entrepreneurship is a key driver of local economic vitality, the firm is involved in the entrepreneurial ecosystem and in initiatives that help new ventures emerge and grow. The aim is simple: to make legal issues more accessible at the moment founding decisions are made, without compromising on rigorous analysis.

## Our services

- Choice of corporate form
- Drafting articles of association
- Governance arrangements
- Shareholders’ agreements
- Protecting relations between founders
- First commercial contracts
- Terms and conditions
- Structuring business takeovers
- Anticipating legal risks

## Your challenges

**Which corporate form should you choose?**
We compare the possible structures in light of your project, your co-founders and your growth prospects.

**Are you starting up with partners?**
We set out the governance and the relationship between founders in the articles and a shareholders’ agreement.

**Are you taking over an existing business?**
We structure the takeover and anticipate the legal risks.

## Preparing for your meeting

- Project outline
- Financial forecast
- Details of prospective partners
- Draft contracts
- Priority questions

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## Contact details
- **Salon-de-Provence** (Head office) : 109, avenue Gaston Cabrier, 13300 Salon-de-Provence
- **Paris** (Paris office) : 22, rue Bréguet, 75011 Paris — By appointment only
- Phone : +33 (0)4 90 50 41 58
- Email : contact@gautelier-avocat.com
- Hours : Monday to Friday, 9 am – 12 pm / 2 pm – 6 pm
- [Contact form](https://gautelier-avocats.com/en/contact)

*Source : https://gautelier-avocats.com/en/expertise/business-formation*