Beneficial owner
Register of beneficial owners: what you need to know for your company
By Yasmine EDDAM22 April 2025Financial transparency is no longer an option, but a requirement in today's economic landscape. At the heart of this approach in France is the register of beneficial owners, a system that now concerns almost all legal structures, from commercial companies to associations. Managers, partners, heads of organisations: understanding the broad outlines of these regulations has become essential to ensuring your entity's compliance and avoiding the sometimes heavy penalties. This article provides an overview of the key points to bear in mind. The beneficial owner: who is it and who must declare it? Basically, the beneficial owner is the natural person or persons who, ultimately, actually own or control your structure, or who benefit from it. Forget complex legal arrangements: the aim is to identify the individual "behind" the structure. For a more detailed definition and precise identification criteria, please see our article...
Access to information, sanctions and new obligations for beneficial owners
Beneficial owner, Commercial, business and competition lawThe register of beneficial owners is intended to increase transparency about the actual control of companies. But this transparency raises a legitimate question: who has the right to consult this sometimes sensitive information? And do the obligations relating to beneficial owners stop at the reporting company? As...RCS declaration: the core of companies' obligations regarding beneficial owners
Beneficial owner, Commercial, business and competition lawHave you identified your company's beneficial owner(s)? This is a necessary step, but the work does not stop there. The central obligation arising from this identification is the official declaration of this information to the Registre du Commerce et des Sociétés (RCS). This formality is not...The beneficial owner: definition, identification and entities concerned
Beneficial owner, Commercial, business and competition lawTransparency has become an increasingly important requirement in the business world. Against this backdrop, particularly in the fight against money laundering and the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT), one concept has taken on considerable importance for many companies: that of "beneficiary".
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