Standard articles of a single-member simplified joint-stock company (SASU) (France)
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Standard articles of association of a French SASU for one shareholder, a natural person, contributing cash. The company is then set up on the one-stop business formalities portal (formalites.entreprises.gouv.fr), with the legal notice and the beneficial-owners declaration. The articles cover the purpose, name, registered office, duration, capital and its paying-up, shares, president, the sole shareholder's decisions, accounts and dissolution. They do not cover contributions in kind, several shareholders, approval or lock-up clauses, or the tax option. In French.
- Made for use in France
- Last updated October 13, 2026
When to use this document
- You want to set up a company in France on your own as an SASU.
- You work as a freelancer or consultant and want to run that activity through a one-shareholder company.
- You want to be the president of your company yourself and pay in its capital in cash.
- You want standard articles for an SASU before registering it online.
What you fill in
The details the document asks for.
- Company name
- Company purpose (its business)
- Registered address
- Duration of the company in years (99 at most)
- Capital amount
- Number of shares
- Nominal value of one share
- Amount paid up at formation
- Date the funds were deposited
- Where the funds were deposited (bank, notary or Caisse des dépôts)
- Sole member (full name)
- Sole member's date and place of birth
- Sole member's address
- First president (full name, or company name)
- Term of office (or “indefinite”)
- Financial year end (day and month, for example “31 December”)
- End date of the first financial year
- Acts done for the company before its formation (if any)
- City
- Date
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Common questions
- What follows the signing of a French SASU's articles?
- The capital is paid into an account in the name of the company in formation, then the company is registered online on the one-stop business formalities portal (formalites.entreprises.gouv.fr), run by the INPI: signed articles, certificate of the funds deposit, the president's ID and declaration of no conviction, proof of the registered office, the notice published in a legal-notices medium and the beneficial-owners declaration. DocMuse does not carry out these steps.
- What minimum capital does a French SASU need, and how much is paid at the start?
- The law sets no minimum: the capital is what the shareholder chooses, and one euro is enough in law. Cash contributions must be paid up by at least half at formation, the rest within five years when the president calls it. These articles provide for cash contributions only: a contribution in kind, such as a vehicle or a business, needs clauses and a valuation they do not contain.
- What happens if a second shareholder joins the SASU?
- The company becomes an SAS with several shareholders. These articles contain no voting rules between shareholders, no approval of a new shareholder and no rules on transfers between them: they must then be amended by a decision of the sole shareholder before the newcomer joins, and the change is declared on the one-stop portal. In an SAS these rules come almost entirely from the articles (articles L. 227-5 and L. 227-9 of the French Commercial Code).
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