BODACC: track French insolvencies and business sales
BODACC is France's official gazette of civil and commercial notices, published by DILA: receivership and liquidation judgments, sales of businesses, deregistrations. Reachable imports its notices every day, back to 2008, and matches them to the company's SIREN number. You get one column per company and lists of companies in proceedings or recently sold.
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Sources: DILA, BODACC civil and commercial notices (Licence Ouverte), Reachable public API, /v1/public/data/procedures-collectives (read on 12 November 2026), Reachable public API, /v1/public/signals?type=company.sold (read on 12 November 2026) · Updated on
What is the BODACC connector?
The BODACC connector gives, for every French company, the legal notices about it: insolvency proceedings, sale of the business, changes, deregistration. These are the official court registry notices, published by the French State.
| Publisher | DILA (French directorate for legal and administrative information) |
| Licence | Licence Ouverte (Etalab open licence) |
| Coverage | Bulletin A notices (sales, insolvency proceedings, registrations) and bulletin B notices (changes, deregistrations), all of France |
| Refresh at Reachable | Daily; the last collection date is shown on the connectors hub |
| History | Notices since 2008; a corrected or cancelled notice is replaced by its correction |
| Price per run | Shown on pricing and on the hub, read from the current price list |
What BODACC data do you get?
The connector exposes one column and one row source. Every value carries its source (BODACC) and its date.
| Column | Fields |
|---|---|
| BODACC | last notice (type, subtypes, date, DILA identifier), subtypes of the last insolvency proceeding, dates of the last proceeding, last sale, last change and last deregistration |
| "BODACC" source | companies with an insolvency proceeding published over the period (receivership, liquidation, safeguard, or a specific subtype), as rows of a list |
Real sample: insolvency proceedings published in the BODACC on 31 October 2026 for companies with a head office in Paris, as Reachable's public API returns them (data as of 12 November 2026, source BODACC).
| SIREN | Name | Proceeding | Judgment | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 881 915 466 | 123 BATI RENOVATION | Judicial liquidation | 2026-10-20 | 2026-10-31 |
| 995 276 623 | AAG TRADING | Judicial liquidation | 2026-10-15 | 2026-10-31 |
| 931 517 809 | BOMAYE BURGER CHARONNE | Receivership | 2026-10-15 | 2026-10-31 |
| 912 237 278 | CAR SHOP CENTER | Judicial liquidation | 2026-10-15 | 2026-10-31 |
| 830 192 456 | CAROD | Receivership | 2026-10-15 | 2026-10-31 |
| 753 841 154 | D.B.S OPTIC | Receivership | 2026-10-15 | 2026-10-31 |
| 884 869 454 | DSANK | Judicial liquidation | 2026-10-20 | 2026-10-31 |
Business sales published in Alpes-Maritimes, same source, same read date:
| SIREN | Name | Type | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| 132 156 134 | NEW AQUASPLASH | Sale or transfer (act not specified) | 2026-11-12 |
| 434 035 713 | GALIMARD PAYS DE GRASSE | Sale or transfer (act not specified) | 2026-11-12 |
| 813 009 099 | GDS CANNES | Sale or transfer (act not specified) | 2026-11-10 |
| 813 839 008 | LERINS SERVICES | Sale or transfer (act not specified) | 2026-11-10 |
| 532 673 910 | ELITE SECURITE INCENDIE | Sale or transfer (act not specified) | 2026-11-05 |
| 952 258 739 | SALEYA MARCEAU | Sale or transfer (act not specified) | 2026-10-30 |
| 524 182 870 | ULYSSE | Sale or transfer (act not specified) | 2026-10-29 |
Which prospecting signals does the BODACC give?
The BODACC flags the moments a company changes hands or situation: that is where needs, or risks, appear.
- Insolvency opened: a customer or supplier in receivership needs watching (receivables, payment terms); a company in liquidation should leave your files.
- Sale of a business: a new owner reviews suppliers, insurance, accountant, website and tools.
- Sale plan (plan de cession): the assets of a struggling company are taken over; the buyer reorganises.
- Deregistration: the company is gone from the register. Exclude it before any outreach.
A list whose source is "BODACC", re-run every week, adds at each run the companies whose proceeding was published since the previous run.
How many insolvencies and business sales in October 2026?
In October 2026, 7,789 insolvency proceedings and 2,294 business sales were published in the BODACC for companies across France, according to our database (computed on 12 November 2026).
| October 2026, all of France (101 départements) | Notices |
|---|---|
| Insolvency proceedings opened | 7,789 |
| of which judicial liquidations | 5,504 |
| of which receiverships | 2,122 |
| of which safeguard proceedings | 149 |
| of which other (extension of proceedings) | 14 |
| Business sales and transfers | 2,294 |
Paris accounts for 566 proceedings (484 liquidations) and 313 business sales over the month; next, for proceedings, come Seine-Saint-Denis (377), Bouches-du-Rhône (335, Marseille) and Nord (273, Lille).
Method: BODACC notices published between 1 and 31 October 2026 (publication date, not judgment date), matched to a certain SIREN, not retracted, counted in the département of the current head office (SIRENE). A liquidation converted from a receivership counts as a liquidation. Proceedings are read from /v1/public/data/procedures-collectives (recomputed on 12 November 2026 at 08:00 UTC), sales from /v1/public/signals?type=company.sold, per département, as the difference between notices since 1 October and since 1 November. A company whose head office has no known département is not counted: these figures are a floor.
Which connectors should you combine with the BODACC?
The BODACC tells you what happens to a company; the other connectors tell you who it is and how to reach it. Three recipes:
- Business sales + Google Maps: shops sold this month in a département, then their Google listing (rating, reviews, website). A taken-over shop without a website is a lead for a web agency.
- Customer file + BODACC: your file, matched to SIREN, then the BODACC column re-run every week to spot customers entering proceedings before the next invoice.
- Insolvencies + SIRENE: receiverships in your sector (NAF code) and area, with headcount band, for firms that advise companies in difficulty.
Every connector and its price per run are on the connectors hub.
How do you use it from an AI agent (MCP)?
Your agent (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor) queries the BODACC in plain language through Reachable's MCP server. Example request:
List the companies in Bouches-du-Rhône placed in receivership since 1 October, with their NAF code and judgment date.
The agent returns a table: SIREN, name (unless sole trader or restricted disclosure), NAF code, proceeding type, judgment and publication dates, each row with its BODACC source. It can then turn it into a list re-run every week.
What are the limits of the BODACC?
The BODACC publishes legal acts; it does not tell you whether a company is reachable or what it buys.
- Delay: a judgment is published a few days to a few weeks after it is handed down. A month's figure counts the notices published that month.
- SIREN matching: only notices with a certain SIREN feed the column and the figures. A notice without a readable SIREN is never matched by approximation.
- Names: sole traders and companies with restricted disclosure are counted, never named.
- Business sales: the BODACC publishes completed sales, not listings of businesses for sale, and no usable price field.
- Corrections: a corrected or cancelled notice replaces the previous one; a retracted proceeding leaves the figures.
- Rows without SIREN: a row from a CSV or Google Maps is matched to a SIREN with a method and a confidence score; below your list's threshold (0.95 by default), the BODACC column does not run. The method is on the methodology page.