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Drafting Shareholder Resolutions for a Funding Round — In French Legal Format

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Key Takeaway

Our AI agent generates ready-to-review shareholder resolutions for a funding round — AGE convocation, capital increase, DPS waiver — in proper French SAS format with Code de Commerce references, cutting drafting time from 2 weeks to 30 minutes.

The Problem

Funding round closing. You've agreed on terms. Now comes the corporate paperwork.

For a French SAS doing a capital increase with new investors, you need: convocation to an Assemblée Générale Extraordinaire, resolutions for augmentation de capital, suppression du droit préférentiel de souscription, délégation au président, attestation de souscription et de versement, updated statuts, and the corresponding Greffe filings.

This is boilerplate. Every Series A in France generates essentially the same documents with different numbers. Yet law firms charge €3,000-€5,000 to draft them from scratch and take 1-2 weeks.

Why? Because the associate pulls a template from the last deal, changes the names and numbers, triple-checks the Code de Commerce references, formats it in proper legal style, and bills 8-12 hours at €350/hour.

The documents are important. They must be legally correct. But they're not creative work. They're structured output with known inputs.

The Solution

The Corporate Records skill on Mr.Chief. Input the round parameters — amount raised, pre-money valuation, new share class details, investor entity names. The agent generates the complete resolution package in proper French corporate format, with correct Code de Commerce citations and jurisdiction-appropriate language.

The output isn't a draft. It's a near-final document that the lawyer reviews and signs off on. Review, not drafting.

The Process

yamlShow code
# mrchief skill: corporate-records
# Shareholder resolutions for funding round

task: funding-round-resolutions
jurisdiction: france
entity_type: SAS

entity:
  name: "PyratzLabs SAS"
  siret: "XXX XXX XXX XXXXX"
  siege_social: "42 rue de la Blockchain, 75008 Paris"
  president: "Bilal [Last Name]"
  capital_before: EUR_100_000
  shares_before: 10_000
  nominal_value: EUR_10

round:
  type: series_a
  amount: EUR_5_000_000
  pre_money_valuation: EUR_20_000_000
  prime_emission: EUR_490  # per share (€500 subscription price - €10 nominal)
  new_shares: 10_000
  share_class: "Actions de Préférence de Catégorie A"

investor:
  name: "CryptoFund I SLP"
  representative: "Marie Dupont, Présidente de la société de gestion"
  address: "15 avenue Montaigne, 75008 Paris"

documents_to_generate:
  - convocation_age
  - resolutions_augmentation_capital
  - suppression_dps
  - delegation_president
  - attestation_souscription
  - bulletin_souscription

The agent outputs structured legal documents:

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═══════════════════════════════════════════════
DOCUMENT 1/6: CONVOCATION AGE
═══════════════════════════════════════════════

                    PyratzLabs SAS
          Société par actions simplifiée
     au capital de 100.000 euros
     Siège social : 42 rue de la Blockchain, 75008 Paris
     SIRET : XXX XXX XXX XXXXX

     ─────────────────────────────────────────

     CONVOCATION À L'ASSEMBLÉE GÉNÉRALE EXTRAORDINAIRE

Le Président de la société PyratzLabs SAS convoque les
associés en Assemblée Générale Extraordinaire, conformément
aux dispositions de l'article L. 227-9 du Code de commerce
et des statuts de la Société.

Date :      [à compléter]
Heure :     [à compléter]
Lieu :      42 rue de la Blockchain, 75008 Paris

ORDRE DU JOUR :
1. Augmentation du capital social d'un montant nominal de
   100.000 euros par émission de 10.000 actions de préférence
   de catégorie A, d'une valeur nominale de 10 euros chacune,
   assorties d'une prime d'émission de 490 euros par action ;
2. Suppression du droit préférentiel de souscription des
   associés au profit de CryptoFund I SLP ;
3. Délégation au Président pour constater la réalisation
   définitive de l'augmentation de capital ;
4. Modification corrélative des statuts ;
5. Pouvoirs pour les formalités.

[...]

═══════════════════════════════════════════════
DOCUMENT 2/6: RÉSOLUTIONS — AUGMENTATION DE CAPITAL
═══════════════════════════════════════════════

PREMIÈRE RÉSOLUTION
(Augmentation de capital par émission d'actions de préférence)

L'Assemblée Générale, statuant aux conditions de quorum et de
majorité requises pour les décisions extraordinaires,

Après avoir pris connaissance du rapport du Président,

Décide d'augmenter le capital social d'une somme de CENT MILLE
(100.000) euros, pour le porter de CENT MILLE (100.000) euros à
DEUX CENT MILLE (200.000) euros, par l'émission de DIX MILLE
(10.000) actions de préférence de catégorie A nouvelles, de DIX
(10) euros de valeur nominale chacune, au prix unitaire de
souscription de CINQ CENTS (500) euros, soit DIX (10) euros de
nominal et QUATRE CENT QUATRE-VINGT DIX (490) euros de prime
d'émission, à libérer intégralement en numéraire lors de la
souscription.

Conformément aux articles L. 225-128 et suivants du Code de
commerce, applicables aux SAS en vertu de l'article L. 227-1
[...]

Each document includes proper legal citations:

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Code de Commerce References Used:
├── L. 227-1    (SAS — general rules applicable)
├── L. 227-9    (Collective decisions of associates)
├── L. 225-128  (Capital increase — general)
├── L. 225-129  (Delegation to competent body)
├── L. 225-135  (Suppression of DPS)
├── L. 225-138  (Reserved capital increase)
├── L. 228-11   (Actions de préférence — creation)
├── R. 225-113  (Filing requirements)
└── R. 225-117  (Attestation de souscription)

The Results

MetricTraditional (Law Firm)AI Agent + Lawyer Review
Total cost€3,000-€5,000~€500 (review only)
Drafting time1-2 weeks30 minutes
Documents generated4-66 (complete package)
Code de Commerce citationsCorrect (usually)Correct + verified against current text
FormattingFirm template (varies)Standardized, jurisdiction-consistent
Lawyer roleDraft from scratchReview and approve
Iterations2-3 rounds of comments0-1 rounds (minor tweaks)

Lawyer reaction: "The formatting is better than what my associates produce."

The €500 lawyer review is non-negotiable. These are legal documents that bind the company. But the lawyer reviews in 2 hours instead of drafting for 12. They focus on substance (are the terms correctly reflected?) rather than mechanics (is the Code de Commerce citation right?).

Try It Yourself

bashShow code
mrchief run corporate-records \
  --task funding-round-resolutions \
  --entity-type SAS \
  --jurisdiction france \
  --config ./round-parameters.yaml

Supports: SAS, SASU, SARL, SA. Document types: AGE/AGO resolutions, capital increases, share class creation, conversion, and any statutory modification.


Your lawyer's time is too expensive for boilerplate. Let them do what only humans can — judgment calls. Let the agent do the paperwork.

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Drafting Shareholder Resolutions for a Funding Round — In French Legal Format — Mr.Chief