# How to read a record — French companies in judicial liquidation, 50 employees or more

> What the record is, what the status means, and what is left out.

## How to read these records

### Which companies

Four tests. A judgment opening a judicial liquidation, or converting a receivership or safeguard into one, was
published in the BODACC since January 2024. No closing judgment was published after it in the bulletins read. The
company is a private-law company — not a sole trader, an association or a public body. And INSEE's Sirene register
gives it a headcount band of 50 employees or more.

### The headcount band is not the peak

INSEE publishes a band (50 to 99, 100 to 199…) and the year it refers to. It is the latest known band, not the
largest the company ever had, and it can be several years old. Companies whose band is unknown are not listed.

### Who decides

In a judicial liquidation the court appoints a liquidator, who realises the company's assets; the sale of an asset
usually needs the authorisation of the supervising judge (juge-commissaire). This site does not name them: the
judgment published in the BODACC does.

### What is not here

Names of liquidators, judges, directors or any individual. Street addresses: only the town of the registered
office. Sole traders. Associations, schools, health and social-care organisations. Companies in receivership or
safeguard, which keep trading. Companies whose last headcount band is under 50.

**Liquidator of this company?**

The internal data of a company that employed 50 people or more (Slack or Microsoft Teams archive, documentation, project histories) may still have value after it has stopped operating.

[Check whether this company’s data qualifies →](/pro.md) We are paid by the buyer if a partnership is signed, never by the company. Whether personal data in those archives can be transferred is a legal question for whoever controls them. Not affiliated with the DILA, the BODACC or INSEE.

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Fonte: https://echanges.dila.gouv.fr/OPENDATA/BODACC/
Recolha: 2026-10-13