Our bilingual legal team helps businesses and individuals collect overdue payments across France.
Identify, secure, and recover debtor assets anywhere in France.
When a French debtor refuses to pay, hides assets, or becomes evasive, the key to successful recovery is tracing the debtor’s assets and freezing them before they disappear. Asset tracing & recovery requires legal expertise, investigative procedures, and access to judicial enforcement mechanisms available only to French lawyers and bailiffs.
We provide professional, confidential and legally-compliant asset tracing and recovery services throughout France for international businesses. Whether your debtor is a company or an individual, we identify recoverable assets and take immediate steps to secure them.
We assist foreign suppliers, credit managers, exporters, financial institutions, and multinational companies seeking to recover funds from French debtors.
Asset tracing in France involves strict legal rules. Certain information can only be collected through authorised channels, and freezing assets requires precise legal justification.
We begin by analysing the debtor’s financial situation:
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Goal: determine whether the debtor has assets worth pursuing and the best legal strategy.
We identify assets that can be legally seized in France.
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Goal: Enforce compliance or recover damages without litigation.
If assets risk being moved or hidden, we act immediately.
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Goal: secure assets before the debtor can make them disappear.
Once an enforceable title exists (court order, foreign judgment, notarised deed), we convert frozen assets into recoverable funds.
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Goal: transform seized assets into real recovered money.
From 450 € HT → Financial analysis, preliminary investigation, solvency report
From 950 € HT + bailiff fees → Legal petition + judge filing + bailiff coordination
From 1,450 € HT + success fee → Seizure strategy + bank seizures + recovery steps
Quote on request → Real estate, shareholdings, multi-jurisdiction assets
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Asset tracing is the legal process of identifying a debtor’s assets in order to recover an unpaid debt or enforce a judgment. In France, it focuses on locating:
This process is essential when a debtor claims insolvency while still holding recoverable assets.
Asset tracing may involve:
Private or informal investigations without legal authority are not admissible in court.
Asset tracing is lawful when:
All tracing actions must comply with privacy and procedural rules to avoid evidence being rejected.
Through a commissaire de justice, authorized access may include:
These tools provide legally reliable evidence for enforcement actions.
Send us your unpaid invoices and documents, and our lawyers will review your case at no cost.
You receive a clear recovery evaluation and an initial debtor check within 48 hours.
Our lawyers review your contracts and terms to add protective clauses—retention of title, penalties, guarantees—so you avoid future non-payment.
Strengthen your legal framework before issues arise.
Yes. French law allows recovery efforts when assets were:
Legal actions such as fraude paulienne can be used to invalidate abusive asset transfers.
In limited cases, yes. Courts may authorize:
This is allowed when the creditor can show a serious risk that assets may disappear before enforcement.
Asset tracing enables targeted enforcement by:
Without asset tracing, enforcement actions risk being ineffective or misdirected.
Yes. Asset tracing applies to:
However, legal boundaries differ, especially when separating personal assets from company assets.
We offer a comprehensive range of debt collection services designed to recover outstanding payments efficiently and professionally. From amicable settlement negotiations and formal demand letters to legal recovery actions and enforcement proceedings, our team has the experience and resources to manage all aspects of the debt recovery process while maintaining strong client relationships.
