This section provides all information regarding pending judicial proceedings.

The Loi de Sauvegarde des Entreprises (French safeguard of undertakings act) of 26 July 2005 established new judicial proceedings for companies, merchants, small businesses, professionals, farmers and private corporations.

• Contingency proceedings, for entities that are not in a state of suspension of payments but are experiencing difficulties which they are unable to overcome. This procedure allows them to draw up a plan, under court supervision, to pay off their debts.
• Court-supervised recovery, for entities that are in a state of suspension of payments and wish to stay in business, maintain jobs and pay off their debts.
• Liquidation by order of Court, for entities for which court-supervised recovery is clearly impossible. This procedure puts an end to the company's business and allows it to sell its assets in order to pay off its debts.

You can obtain a certificate verifying the existence or non-existence of these proceedings, along with copies of the resulting decisions.

You can also monitor a company (see setting up an alert) and be notified by email or SMS when any of these proceedings is initiated.

The lists of companies let you obtain information about companies involved in any of the above proceedings as well as those which can potentially be sold. (learn more about Lists of companies).