Company domiciliation

The domiciliation of a company corresponds to the administrative address of its registered office. Choosing a domiciliation address for your company is a required step made compulsory by the Commercial Code when creating any French company, business or association. It also constitutes a legal obligation in the event of a transfer of registered office. Without a declaration of registered office for your company or business, it is impossible to have your registration validated by the Trade Register or the Trade and Companies Register.

Your company’s address of domicile has different functions. It thus encompasses not only a commercial role, but also a fiscal, legal and administrative one. This address corresponds to the registered office of your company or business, with the exception of sole proprietorships, for which it is referred to as a commercial domiciliation.

In France, the law distinguishes between the notions of place of business and registered office. This means that your business or company may have a physical address for its registered office even if it does not actually carry out its activity there.

The address associated with the head office of your business or company contributes significantly to the image associated with it. It is therefore essential to take care of your brand image by choosing it carefully.

Choosing the wrong address for its registered office or its commercial domiciliation is to take the risk of degrading its durability. Indeed, all your official documents bear of this address.

With 40 years of experience and professional know-how, Alac offers you a virtual or physical domiciliation of your company in a prestigious location, to pamper the brand image and credibility of your structure and guarantee the good health of your commercial activity.

Our domiciliation center is located in a beautiful Haussmanian building in the heart of the 17th district of Paris, near Charles de Gaulle Étoile, Avenue de la Grande Armée and Porte Maillot.

Alac is not only a virtual office company. It is also complementary services designed to simplify your life in the daily management of your business:

• • Administrative support for the creation of companies: registration, transfer of registered office etc. ;

• • Telephone answering: management of your incoming calls;

• • Mail management ;
  • Accounting management: we support you in your accounting management by relying on the expertise of our certified public accountant Sorel VMH.

Before deciding or setting up your head office, make sure…domiciliation company has been approved by the competent authorities.
Indeed, since January 1st, 2010, the law has required domiciliation companies to obtain an approval, issued by the Prefecture of Police for a period of 6 years.
As a very involved member of the professional business center association  SYNAPHE*, Alac welcomes the collective efforts of the syndicate’s members to ensure that the activity of domiciliation company is a regulated activity. Thus the holders of the approval offer a guarantee to their clients in terms of quality of services:

• the approved domiciliation company justifies holding a long-term office lease with sufficient space ensuring the necessary confidentiality for the domiciled person,
• the accredited domiciliation agent justifies the possibility of keeping, conserving and consulting the books, registers and documents prescribed by the laws and regulations of the domiciliation company,
• the registered domiciliation agent has never been the subject of a final conviction for a crime, a prison sentence for various offences (including concealment, money laundering, corruption, bankruptcy or tax fraud) or personal bankruptcy.
• each establishment belonging to the domiciliary must meet the conditions of the approval,
• the approval is only given for a limited period of time and must therefore be renewed; it may also be suspended or withdrawn if the domiciliary does not update the information communicated at the time of the application for approval if that information changes,

Thus, « No one may exercise the activity of domiciliation unless he is previously approved by the administrative authority ».

Alac, a regulatory compliant virtual office company