How do I post a legal ad?

Verified 01 January 2024 - Legal and Administrative Information Directorate (Prime Minister), Ministry of Justice

The publication of a legal advertisement is mandatory to inform the public about the main stages of a business' life: creation, modification or cessation of activity. It must be inserted in a medium authorized to receive legal announcements (SHAL): it is either a legal announcements journal (JAL) or an online press service (SPEL).

All businesses (SARL, SA, SAS, etc.) must inserting legal announcements in a media (Shal: titleContent) at the time of their creation and during the cessation of their activity.

They must also publish a legal advertisement in case of alteration in the business: this is the case during a change of leader, a change of business purpose, a transfer of registered office, a capital increase, etc.

Individual business On the other hand, craftsmen and traders who operate asIS: titleContent, EIRL: titleContent, micro-entrepreneurs) and GIE: titleContent are not affected by this obligation.

You must request a publication from a Legal Announcement Log (JAL) or a online press service (SPEL) authorized in the department where the head office of the business is located.

You can find the list of media entitled to receive legal announcements (SHAL) using an interactive map:

Search for media eligible to publish legal listings by department

Your publication request must include the following information:

  • Name of the business
  • Business acronym
  • Shape of the business
  • Amount of share capital
  • Address of registered office
  • Social purpose
  • Duration of business
  • Name(s) of officer(s)
  • Indication of the register in which the business will be registered

FYI  

Advertisements published in online media (SPEL) remain displayed for at least 7 days from their publication on the home page of the site.

After the legal announcement has been issued, the Shal: titleContent provide the business with a certificate of publication.

All advertisements published in the authorized media (SHAL) can be consulted in a central digital database: the company Legal Advertising Portal (PPLE).

There are 2 types of pricing for legal listings:

  • or the flat-rate for announcements of formation, dissolution and closure of liquidation
  • or depending on the number of characters in the other cases
Package price

The price of a legal listing is set at package (i.e. a fixed amount) in a number of cases. For example:

  • Establishment of a business
  • Act of appointment of liquidators and notice of closure of the liquidation of civil and commercial businesses in the context of a dissolving
  • Judgment opening or closing a collective proceedings (safeguard, recovery and winding-up proceedings)

The price depends on the legal form of the business and the department in which the ad is published.

Tableau - Flat rates 2024 excluding taxes of a legal announcement of the constitution of business

Department

Public limited company (SA)

Simplified share business (SAS)

Single person simplified share business (SASU)

General partnership (SNC)

Limited Liability Company (LLC)

single-member company with limited liability (EURL)

Civil business (except ICS)

Civil Real Estate business (SCI)

Metropolitan France

971 Guadeloupe

972 Martinique

973 Guyana

977 Saint-Barthélemy

978 Saint-Martin

986 Wallis and Futuna

€387

€193

€138

€214

€144

€121

€216

€185

974 La Réunion

976 Mayotte

€453

€226

€162

€252

€168

€143

€255

€217

Please note

For limited partnerships (CBSs) and limited partnerships (CBSs), the tariff is not flat-rate.

Tableau - Flat rates 2024 excluding taxes of a legal announcement of appointment of amicable liquidator and closure of an amicable liquidation

Department

Appointment

of the amicable liquidator

Closure of an amicable settlement

Metropolitan France

971 Guadeloupe

972 Martinique

973 Guyana

977 Saint-Barthélemy

978 Saint-Martin

986 Wallis and Futuna

€149

€108

974 La Réunion

976 Mayotte

€175

€125

Tableau - Flat rates 2024 excluding taxes of a legal announcement of the opening and closing of a collective proceeding

Department

Judgment opening collective proceedings

Judgment closing a collective proceedings

Metropolitan France

971 Guadeloupe

972 Martinique

973 Guyana

977 Saint-Barthélemy

978 Saint-Martin

986 Wallis and Futuna

€64

€35

974 La Réunion

976 Mayotte

€75

€41

As of January 1, 2024, a flat rate applies to the following legal listings:

  • Resignation for cause, on appointment and termination of office of the auditor of commercial or civil businesses
  • Changes in the opening and closing dates of the business year, changes in the starting date and extensions of the business businesses;
  • Transfer of the registered office of commercial businesses, European businesses and planned civil businesses
  • Appointment of civil business managers
  • Termination of the function of the managers of commercial businesses
  • Change in the purpose of commercial businesses and civil businesses
  • Reconstitution of the share capital of commercial businesses and civil businesses
  • Reduction of the share capital of commercial businesses and civil businesses
  • Appointment of the Judicial Administrator of Commercial businesses and Civil businesses
  • Sale of shares in commercial businesses and sale of shares in civil businesses
  • Transformation of the corporate form of commercial businesses and civil businesses, the transformation of public limited liability companies into European businesses and the transformation of European businesses into public limited liability companies;
  • Movements of partners in commercial businesses, civil businesses and lawyers' associations
  • Change in the name of commercial businesses and civil businesses.
    Termination of commercial lease

FYI  

For the following flat rates, when the ads match multiple changes, they are billed by the number of characters.

Tableau - Flat rates 2024 excluding taxes of a legal announcement of resignation for lawful reason, appointment or termination of office of an auditor of a civil or commercial business

Department

Rate

Metropolitan France

971 Guadeloupe

972 Martinique

973 Guyana

977 Saint-Barthélemy

978 Saint-Martin

986 Wallis and Futuna

€106

974 La Réunion

976 Mayotte

€123

Tableau - Flat rates 2024 excluding taxes of a legal announcement of modification date of opening and closing of the business year, date of commencement of activity and extension of a commercial or civil business

Department

Rate

Metropolitan France

971 Guadeloupe

972 Martinique

973 Guyana

977 Saint-Barthélemy

978 Saint-Martin

986 Wallis and Futuna

€106

974 La Réunion

976 Mayotte

€123

Tableau - Flat rates 2024 excluding taxes of a legal announcement of transfer of registered office of a commercial, European or civil business

Department

Rate

Metropolitan France

971 Guadeloupe

972 Martinique

973 Guyana

977 Saint-Barthélemy

978 Saint-Martin

986 Wallis and Futuna

€106

974 La Réunion

976 Mayotte

€123

Tableau - 2024 flat rates excluding taxes from a legal announcement of the appointment of the managers of a commercial or civil business and the termination of the function of the manager of a commercial business

Department

Rate

Metropolitan France

971 Guadeloupe

972 Martinique

973 Guyana

977 Saint-Barthélemy

978 Saint-Martin

986 Wallis and Futuna

€106

974 La Réunion

976 Mayotte

€123

Tableau - Flat rates 2024 excluding taxes of a legal announcement to replenish the share capital of a commercial or civil business

Department

Rate

Metropolitan France

971 Guadeloupe

972 Martinique

973 Guyana

977 Saint-Barthélemy

978 Saint-Martin

986 Wallis and Futuna

€106

974 La Réunion

976 Mayotte

€123

Tableau - Flat rates 2024 excluding taxes of a legal announcement of a change in the object of the company or the reduction of the share capital of a commercial or civil business

Department

Rate

Metropolitan France

971 Guadeloupe

972 Martinique

973 Guyana

977 Saint-Barthélemy

978 Saint-Martin

986 Wallis and Futuna

€132

974 La Réunion

976 Mayotte

€153

Tableau - 2024 flat-rate fees excluding taxes for a legal advertisement for the appointment of the receiver of a commercial or civil business

Department

Rate

Metropolitan France

971 Guadeloupe

972 Martinique

973 Guyana

977 Saint-Barthélemy

978 Saint-Martin

986 Wallis and Futuna

€132

974 La Réunion

976 Mayotte

€153

Tableau - 2024 flat rates excluding taxes from a legal announcement of the sale of shares of a commercial business or of shares of a civil business

Department

Rate

Metropolitan France

971 Guadeloupe

972 Martinique

973 Guyana

977 Saint-Barthélemy

978 Saint-Martin

986 Wallis and Futuna

€193

974 La Réunion

976 Mayotte

€223

Tableau - Flat rates 2024 excluding taxes of a legal advertisement to transform the social form of a commercial or civil business

Department

Rate

Metropolitan France

971 Guadeloupe

972 Martinique

973 Guyana

977 Saint-Barthélemy

978 Saint-Martin

986 Wallis and Futuna

€193

974 La Réunion

976 Mayotte

€223

Tableau - 2024 flat rates excluding taxes of a legal advertisement of the movement of partners of a commercial, civil or legal business

Department

Rate

Metropolitan France

971 Guadeloupe

972 Martinique

973 Guyana

977 Saint-Barthélemy

978 Saint-Martin

986 Wallis and Futuna

€193

974 La Réunion

976 Mayotte

€223

Tableau - Flat rates 2024 excluding taxes of a legal announcement of the change of the name of a commercial or civil business

Department

Rate

Metropolitan France

971 Guadeloupe

972 Martinique

973 Guyana

977 Saint-Barthélemy

978 Saint-Martin

986 Wallis and Futuna

€193

974 La Réunion

976 Mayotte

€223

Tableau - 2024 flat rates excluding taxes of a legal announcement of termination of a commercial lease

Department

Rate

Metropolitan France

971 Guadeloupe

972 Martinique

973 Guyana

977 Saint-Barthélemy

978 Saint-Martin

986 Wallis and Futuna

€193

974 La Réunion

976 Mayotte

€223

Price per character

Where a flat rate is not provided for, the price of the legal advertisement depends on its length.

This is the case, for example, in the case of a change of registered office, an increase or reduction in capital, a change in the object of the company, etc.

The rate is then set according to the number of characters in the ad. Multiply the total number of characters in the ad, including spaces, by the price of the character.

The price of the character varies by department in which the seat of the business is located.

Tableau - 2024 prices excluding taxes of the character of a legal advertisement

Department

Rate

02 Aisne

07 Ardèche

08 Ardennes

26 Drôme

38 Isère

60 Oise

69 Rhône

80 Sum

89 Yonne

€0.189

27 Eure

76 Seine-Maritime

€0.200

59 North

62 Pas de Calais

77 Seine et Marne

78 Yvelines

91 Essonne

95 Val-d'Oise

€0.221

75 Paris

92 Hauts de Seine

93 Seine-Saint-Denis

94 Val de Marne

€0.232

971 Guadeloupe

972 Martinique

973 Guyana

977 Saint-Barthélemy

978 Saint-Martin

986 Wallis and Futuna

€0.179

974 La Réunion

976 Mayotte

€0.204

Other Departments

€0.183