By Raphaël MORENON
5 April 2025
Your company has delivered goods or performed a service, but your customer is delaying payment. Worse still, you learn that they appear to be selling their assets or emptying their business accounts to avoid meeting their obligations. This situation, which is unfortunately common, can jeopardise the financial health of your business. Faced with this legitimate anxiety, French law offers tools for taking preventive action: precautionary measures. These are legal mechanisms that make it possible to 'freeze' certain assets of your debtor to guarantee future payment of what he owes you. Understanding these tools is essential for any creditor, whether a business or an individual, wishing to secure their rights before it is too late. This article takes a look at these mechanisms: what exactly are they, why use them and, above all, what conditions need to be met before they can be used? What is a conservatory measure? A protective measure, as its name suggests, is a...
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