Sintes DingamgotoLawyer · Paris & Chad Bars
The firm

A law firm built for the entrepreneur who comes from elsewhere.

Founded in Paris by Sintes Dingamgoto, member of the Paris and Chad Bars, the firm concentrates on one population: foreign entrepreneurs who want to set up in France or structure an international operation. The Talent Passport is its core practice; company law, employment law and commercial leases are what follows once the founder has arrived.

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Why this firm exists

Clarifying the law for those it was not written for

French law offers foreign entrepreneurs real opportunities — a multi-year residence permit from the first application, a route built for innovative founders, the freedom to create and run a French company from abroad. Yet almost none of it is explained to the people it concerns, in their language, in one place, by someone accountable for the answer. Founders arrive with months of partial information, often correct in isolation and misleading when combined.

The firm was built on that gap. Its work is to make these opportunities legible, to say early and plainly when a route does not fit, and then to turn the right route into a file the administration accepts. That is a legal task, but also a practical one: the deposit of share capital without a French bank account, the order in which the company, the opinion, the visa and the card must follow one another, the documents a consulate will actually read.

Clients to date have come from more than twenty-seven nationalities. Each file is handled personally by the founding lawyer, in English or French.

Your lawyer

Sintes Dingamgoto

Sintes Dingamgoto, lawyer, Paris and Chad Bars

Sintes Dingamgoto read business law at Université Paris Nanterre and holds a master's degree in comparative law from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He trained in two Anglo-American business law firms in Paris: at Stephenson Harwood, on insolvency, OHADA disputes and project finance; at Hogan Lovells, in the employment department, where he took part in an employment audit linked to the acquisition of a company.

Admitted to the Paris Bar and to the Chad Bar, he also heads the Advisory Department of Cabinet Thomas Dingamgoto in N'Djamena, advising multinationals, financial institutions and development lenders on operations in Central Africa in energy, telecoms, mining and banking. That second anchoring gives the firm a working knowledge of OHADA law and of how founders from Africa, the Middle East and Asia actually move capital and people.

He works in French and English, with some Spanish and Chadian Arabic.

BarsParis (Toque D 1086) · Chad
EducationUniversité Paris Nanterre · Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (master's in comparative law)
TrainingStephenson Harwood · Hogan Lovells
LanguagesFrench, English; some Spanish and Chadian Arabic
Office79 rue d'Amsterdam, 75008 Paris
How we work

One lawyer, three jobs

A Talent Passport file fails when its three parts are written by three different people and tell three different stories. The firm writes the business plan, incorporates the company and builds the immigration file itself, so that the articles of association, the forecast and the application say exactly the same thing to the administration.

I

Business plan & forecast

Written for the examiner, not for an investor: market, pricing, charges, three-year monthly cash flow, break-even, presentation note.

II

Company formation

SASU, SAS or SARL, articles drafted for the route chosen, capital through the Bar's escrow, registration, Kbis.

III

Immigration file

Opinion or certificate request, consular visa file with reasoned cover letter, family permits, prefecture follow-up, appeals where needed.

Rigour

Figures are checked, not decorated

Budgets and first-year projections are reviewed so that a project is sized realistically before it is filed. The administration redoes the arithmetic; so do we.

Transparency

Problems are flagged early

If a route does not fit, or a file is weak, you hear it at the first call — not after you have paid.

Accessibility

Direct contact, replies within one business day

You deal with the lawyer who handles your file, in English, by email, WhatsApp or video.

Confidentiality

Professional secrecy from the first message

Everything you send is covered by professional secrecy under French law, whether or not the matter proceeds — a duty that binds lawyers and that consultancies are not subject to.

Practice areas

What the firm does

Core practice

Talent Passport & French Tech Visa

Business-creator, innovative-project and investor routes; the entrepreneur / profession libérale permit for those who buy rather than create; family permits.

Company law

Formation and partners

SAS, SASU and SARL for foreign founders, shareholders' agreements between French and foreign partners, companies run by a non-resident director.

After arrival

Employment law, commercial leases, contracts

Hiring and terminations, labour-court disputes, the 3-6-9 lease and its disputes, terms of business and recovery of debts, under French and OHADA law.

The firm does not advise on the tax law of your country of residence and refers you to a local adviser for it.

Page reviewed and updated on 16 October 2026

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