How do I post a legal ad?
Verified 01 January 2025 - Directorate of Legal and Administrative Information (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).
General
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
To help you find the price of a legal listing, we provide you with a simulator:
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 type of ad, the legal form of the business, and the department in which the ad is published.
Establishment of the 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 | €395 | €197 | €141 | €218 | €147 | €123 | €220 | €189 |
974 La Réunion 976 Mayotte | €462 | €231 | €165 | €257 | €171 | €146 | €260 | €221 |
Please note
For limited partnerships (CBSs) and limited partnerships (CBSs), the tariff is not flat-rate.
Day-to-day management
Répondez aux questions successives et les réponses s’afficheront automatiquement
Appointment or termination of office of an auditor
Department | Rate |
|---|---|
Metropolitan France 971 Guadeloupe 972 Martinique 973 Guyana 977 Saint-Barthélemy 978 Saint-Martin 986 Wallis and Futuna | €108 |
974 La Réunion 976 Mayotte | €125 |
Appointment or termination of office of directors and other persons supervising a business
Department | Rate |
|---|---|
Metropolitan France 971 Guadeloupe 972 Martinique 973 Guyana 977 Saint-Barthélemy 978 Saint-Martin 986 Wallis and Futuna | €108 |
974 La Réunion 976 Mayotte | €125 |
Change in the length 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 | €108 |
974 La Réunion 976 Mayotte | €125 |
Transfer of the 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 | €108 |
974 La Réunion 976 Mayotte | €125 |
Change of corporate name or acronyms
Department | Rate |
|---|---|
Metropolitan France 971 Guadeloupe 972 Martinique 973 Guyana 977 Saint-Barthélemy 978 Saint-Martin 986 Wallis and Futuna | €197 |
974 La Réunion 976 Mayotte | €227 |
Change in the objects of the company or change in the capital of the company
Department | Rate |
|---|---|
Metropolitan France 971 Guadeloupe 972 Martinique 973 Guyana 977 Saint-Barthélemy 978 Saint-Martin 986 Wallis and Futuna | €135 |
974 La Réunion 976 Mayotte | €156 |
Transformation of the social shape 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 | €197 |
974 La Réunion 976 Mayotte | €227 |
Movements of members of a commercial, civil or lawyers' business
Department | Rate |
|---|---|
Metropolitan France 971 Guadeloupe 972 Martinique 973 Guyana 977 Saint-Barthélemy 978 Saint-Martin 986 Wallis and Futuna | €197 |
974 La Réunion 976 Mayotte | €227 |
Economic difficulties
Répondez aux questions successives et les réponses s’afficheront automatiquement
Judgment opening or closing collective proceedings
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 | €65 | €36 |
974 La Réunion 976 Mayotte | €77 | €42 |
Appointment of the administrator
Department | Rate |
|---|---|
Metropolitan France 971 Guadeloupe 972 Martinique 973 Guyana 977 Saint-Barthélemy 978 Saint-Martin 986 Wallis and Futuna | €135 |
974 La Réunion 976 Mayotte | €156 |
Appointment of an amicable liquidator or termination 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 | €152 | €110 |
974 La Réunion 976 Mayotte | €179 | €128 |
Non-dissolution of a SARL or SA
Department | Rate |
|---|---|
Metropolitan France 971 Guadeloupe 972 Martinique 973 Guyana 977 Saint-Barthélemy 978 Saint-Martin 986 Wallis and Futuna | €82 |
974 La Réunion 976 Mayotte | €92 |
FYI
Advertisements for more than one of the changes for which a flat rate is provided shall be subject to a character-based pricing.
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.
Department | Rate |
|---|---|
02 Aisne 07 Ardèche 08 Ardennes 26 Drôme 38 Isère 60 Oise 69 Rhône 80 Sum 89 Yonne | €0.193 |
27 Eure 76 Seine-Maritime | €0.204 |
59 North 62 Pas de Calais 77 Seine et Marne 78 Yvelines 91 Essonne 95 Val-d'Oise | €0.225 |
75 Paris 92 Hauts de Seine 93 Seine-Saint-Denis 94 Val de Marne | €0.237 |
971 Guadeloupe 972 Martinique 973 Guyana 977 Saint-Barthélemy 978 Saint-Martin 986 Wallis and Futuna | €0.183 |
974 La Réunion 976 Mayotte | €0.208 |
Other Departments | €0.187 |
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