Our bilingual legal team helps businesses and individuals collect overdue payments across France.
Our French debt collection lawyers can combine negotiation, legal pressure, and court enforcement under French law. Unlike collection agencies, we are French registered lawyers and therefore we can issue formal legal notices, initiate court proceedings, secure court judgments, and enforce them through bailiffs (huissiers de justice). This ensures faster escalation and higher recovery rates, especially for disputed or high-value debts.
Yes. We regularly represent foreign companies, investors, and international groups seeking to recover debts from French debtors. We handle the entire process in France, including legal analysis, pre-litigation recovery, court proceedings, enforcement measures, and coordination with bailiffs, while communicating clearly in English and aligning our strategy with your commercial objectives.
Our French debt collection lawyers can recover commercial and private debts, including unpaid invoices, contractual claims, distribution and agency commissions, loan repayments, and damages arising from breach of contract. We act both in undisputed matters (fast recovery) and disputed cases requiring litigation before French commercial or civil courts. We also enforce foreign judgements against French debtors or assest in France.
Timeframes depend on whether the debt is disputed.
• Undisputed debts can often be recovered within a few weeks through formal legal notices and negotiated settlements.
• Disputed debts may require litigation, which typically takes several months, but interim legal actions can quickly apply pressure and secure payment.
Our approach prioritizes efficient recovery while controlling costs and risks.
We combine legal leverage with commercial strategy. Each case starts with a legal and enforcement risk assessment (solvency, jurisdiction, evidence, defenses). We then deploy the most effective tools under French law—formal notices, settlement negotiations, court actions, and enforcement—aimed at maximizing recovery and minimizing delays.
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.