Capabilities

White collar crime

Our specialists in business criminal law offer counsel and defense at all stages of proceedings (preliminary investigations, judicial inquiries, and criminal trials). Our lawyers intervene on behalf of French and international groups, banks, and executives across various sectors (energy, industry, construction, distribution, services, etc.), covering areas such as banking criminal law, tax criminal law, corporate criminal law, labor criminal law, environmental criminal law, and competition criminal law. We also assist our clients in implementing delegations of authority and compliance programs related to the fight against corruption, money laundering, and the financing of terrorism. Responsive and committed to our clients, we integrate strategic, economic, and financial considerations into our interventions.

Areas of intervention

Custody and searches

We ensure strategic defense from the earliest stages of a criminal procedure, intervening during custody, searches, or seizures related to suspicions of tax fraud, money laundering, or embezzlement.

Investigation and judicial inquiry

In the context of judicial investigations or complex inquiries, particularly involving corruption, bankruptcy, or misleading advertising, we defend our clients’ interests, ensuring their rights are respected.

Hearings and criminal prosecutions

We represent our clients during hearings before investigators or magistrates and during criminal prosecutions, advising on defense strategies tailored to the alleged offenses, such as fraud or breach of trust.

Letters rogatory and international criminal litigation

We intervene in cross-border cases involving international letters rogatory, often related to VAT fraud or money laundering of tax evasion.

Criminal court, CRPC, and CJIP

We defend companies and executives before the criminal court and in negotiated procedures such as CRPC (Plea Bargaining) or CJIP (Judicial Public Interest Agreements), often related to accusations of corruption or malpractice.

Specialized criminal litigation

We provide expertise in complex litigation, such as banking and financial criminal law, tax criminal law, or competition and consumer criminal law, managing accusations like CEO fraud or misuse of corporate assets.

Sector-specific criminal law

We handle specific cases related to corporate criminal law, sports criminal law, labor criminal law, or environmental criminal law, adapting our approach to the particular challenges of each sector.

Examples of support

Defense of a telecommunications group in a money laundering and VAT fraud case

We assisted and defended a globally recognized telecommunications group in a major money laundering and VAT fraud case. Criminal investigations led to the indictment of two French subsidiaries of the group, their executives, and several individuals accused of money laundering and significant VAT fraud. Our intervention covered the support of the two companies and one of the executives before the trial, requesting access to seized documents, drafting nullity motions and memorandums on the merits, and delivering pleadings during a multi-week trial before the Criminal Court. We also supervised and coordinated the defense team, composed of renowned criminal lawyers representing the personally involved executives.

Advice on an international fraud involving an investment fund

We advised our client, a foreign investment fund, in a fraud case where they were the victim of theft. Local authorities had frozen the funds and refused to return them to our client. We collaborated with local colleagues to request that the case be brought before the court and to obtain a court order transferring the funds to our client.

Assistance in a moral harassment case

We assisted and defended our client in a delicate case where an employee accused the company of moral harassment. An internal investigation was conducted, and we supported the management team and the company, a subsidiary of a major fashion group.

Assistance in a social Security fraud case

We advised and assisted a regional transport authority as the plaintiff in a criminal court procedure for social security fraud. Our work involved filing a complaint on behalf of the authority, representing them during the preliminary investigation, requesting an expert opinion, and drafting written conclusions. The hearing is scheduled for December, and we are currently following the appeal procedure.

Assistance in a procedure for misleading financial information presentation

We advised and assisted our client, an industrial group, in a procedure for misleading financial information presentation before the French Financial Markets Authority’s sanctions commission.

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