Paragraph 4: Nullity, dissolution and liquidation of the company.

At the request of the public prosecutor, any final court decision declaring the company null and void is published in the Journal officiel de la République française and one of these copies is filed in the file opened in the name of the company at the registry responsible for keeping the trade and companies register.

The nullity of the company shall not affect the validity of the acts of their profession performed by the associated commercial court clerks practising within the company before the date on which such nullity became final.

The nullity of the company may not be relied upon against third parties until the publication formalities provided for in article R. 743-63, the second paragraph of article R. 743-75 and article R. 743-76 have been completed.

The dismissal of all the members of the company or of the company shall automatically result in the dissolution of the company by the extinction of its objects. The decision to dismiss them shall record the dissolution of the company and order its liquidation. The liquidator appointed shall perform the duties of the administrator whose appointment is provided for by article 64 of decree no. 2022-900 of 17 June 2022…

The company is dissolved ipso jure by the simultaneous death of all the partners or by the death of the last surviving partner, if all of them have died successively without, at the date of the last of them, the capital securities or shares of the others having been transferred to third parties.

The company is automatically dissolved if all the partners simultaneously request their withdrawal under the conditions provided for in Article 21 of Law no. 66-879 of 29 November 1966 relating to professional non-trading companies and articles R. 743-101 and R. 743-127, or if they have successively requested such withdrawal, without the shares or capital securities of the other members having been transferred to third parties at the date of the…

The company is dissolved ipso jure when all the members exercising their functions within the company simultaneously cease to exercise their functions under the conditions provided for in article L. 741-1 or, when all the practising partners have successively ceased their functions under the conditions provided for by this article without the shares or corporate units of the others having been transferred to third parties at the date of retirement…

The company is deemed to have resigned from its office on the date of its dissolution. The dissolution of the company takes effect, whatever the cause, on the date on which it is recorded by order of the Keeper of the Seals, Minister of Justice.

The dissolution of the company may not be relied upon as against third parties until the publication formalities provided for in articles R. 743-59, R. 743-63, the second paragraph of article R. 743-75, and article R. 743-76 have been completed.

When a company is in liquidation, its legal personality subsists for the purposes of the liquidation until the liquidation is completed. The company name or corporate name must be followed by the words “Company in liquidation”.