Business lawyer in Perpignan

The firm opened its Perpignan office in 2021. It does not sit near the law courts but south of the city, in the Tecnosud business park, where the companies we meet are based: appointments there are made in advance, about business matters, not in passing between hearings.

Me Jérôme Pujol is admitted to the Pyrénées-Orientales Bar and to the ParisBar. It is that dual admission that defines the office: the resources of a Paris business law firm — an ESSEC master's degree, a spell with Gide Loyrette Nouel, admission to the Bar in 2000 — applied locally, for businesses that should not have to go up to Paris in order to be properly represented. The firm is also a patron of the UPVD iN CUBE incubator at the University of Perpignan, under an agreement entered into in 2020. The detail of the firm's background and method is set out elsewhere.

The economic fabric of the département produces recognisable files.

Trading and logistics. Saint-Charles International, south of Perpignan, is Europe's leading platform for fresh fruit and vegetables: more than 150 trading, transport and logistics businesses across around 80 hectares, 1.8 million tonnes a year. In practice: long contractual chains, acceptance disputes over perishable goods, abrupt terminations of established commercial relations (art. L. 442-1, II of the French Commercial Code) and unpaid invoices that spread from one link to the next. All of it is decided before the dispute, by making your terms of sale and your transport contracts safe.

Wine growing and food production. Côtes du Roussillon, Banyuls, Maury, Rivesaltes: a vineyard of appellations, and therefore of registered rights and specifications, and family estates reaching the age of handing over and of its tax cost. In 2021 we advised the shareholders of a wine tourism company on a fundraising round (amount confidential).

Tourism, retail, construction. A seasonal economy produces commercial leases to be negotiated over locations whose value varies twofold with the season, and cash-flow gaps that turn a late payment into a failure: that is the ground of recovering your unpaid invoices.

Young companies coming out of the UPVD.Articles of association, shareholders' agreement, protection of creative work, GDPR compliance — the same questions, always asked too late, and in particular when it comes to structuring the arrival of an investor.

One procedural point, finally: Perpignan is not one of the twelve courts converted into a tribunal des activités économiques, an economic activities court, on 1 January 2025 (Decree no. 2024-674 of 3 July 2024). It is the tribunal de commerce of Perpignan, the French commercial court, that remains competent for your proceedings, insolvency proceedings included — your deadlines are counted from here.

If one of these situations is yours, it is better to set out your situation to us before incurring costs.

Thirty kilometres separate Perpignan from Le Perthus. The crossing from the A9 onto the AP-7 sees in the order of 10,000 lorries a day, and a direct train reaches Barcelona in about 1 hr 20through the Perthus tunnel. For a business in the Pyrénées-Orientales, a Spanish customer or supplier is not an “export project”: it is an ordinary counterparty, often contracted with without anyone having checked the applicable law or the court having jurisdiction.

The bill arrives with the first incident. Which court has jurisdiction, and the recognition of the judgment, are governed by Regulation (EU) no. 1215/2012, known as Brussels I recast; an undisputed unpaid debt may be pursued through the European order for payment procedure (Regulation (EC) no. 1896/2006). Two instruments that settle a great deal — provided the clause signed two years earlier has not neutralised them. That is what our Catalan office is there for.

This is a business law firm. We act for companies, their directors and their shareholders: corporate law, contracts, unpaid invoices and insolvency proceedings, unfair competition, intellectual property, personal data, business tax.

We do not handle divorce or family law, criminal law, immigration law, or employment tribunal claims on the employee's side, and we do not act under aide juridictionnelle, the French legal aid scheme. For those subjects, the Pyrénées-Orientales Bar keeps the directory of colleagues who practise them: it will save you time.

The seven areas are practised identically from all three offices. Three account for most of the files opened from Perpignan: debt recovery and insolvency, because seasonality and local subcontracting chains produce unpaid invoices in series; commercial contracts, because a badly framed trading relationship is paid for at the first incident; and wealth and tax, because handing over a family business is a generational subject here. The other four are handled in exactly the same way.

The office is in the Tecnosudbusiness park, south of Perpignan. The full address, the telephone number and the email address appear in the “Contact details” box on this page: they are the same everywhere — footer, legal notice, structured data.

Appointments are booked online, from any page of the site, in four steps designed to prepare the file rather than to filter calls. That is still rare locally, and it answers a measured demand: online booking is among the searches Google itself suggests for the city.

The meeting is held at the office or by video call, as you prefer — for a business in Céret, Prades or Argelès, an hour of driving avoided is an hour billed to nobody. Electronic signature and online payment complete the arrangement: a file can be handled from start to finish without travelling, where that is what suits you.