White collar criminal law
& Financial criminal law
The firm advises and defends its clients in all fields of financial criminal law, for example:
- Fraud and breach of trust
- Abuse of weakness
- Forgery and use of forged documents
- Misuse of corporate assets
- Corruption and influence peddling
- Money laundering
- Favouritism and illegal interest taking
- Blackmail and extortion
- Bankruptcy fraud
- Financial and stock market crimes
- Criminal competition law
- Corporate criminal offence
- Economic and financial sanctions
The firm assists companies and their managers at all stages of the criminal proceedings, either for plaintiffs or for defendants.
Examples include:
- Acting for a foreign bank prosecuted for fraud in proceedings involving more than 70 civil parties.
- Representing the head of a company in the military equipment sector prosecuted for corruption of a foreign public official.
- Representing a senior public decision-maker in a case of favouritism.
- Acting for of the chairman of sovereign wealth funds in relation to an international financial scandal involving the embezzlement of several hundred million dollars (money laundering, misappropriation of public funds, corruption, etc.).
- Acting for a major real estate developer victim of “CEO fraud” (Fraude au Président).
- Assisting an international insurance company victim of embezzlement of funds.
- Acting for the director of subsidiaries of a French multinational company in the fiduciary sector prosecuted for misuse of corporate assets, forgery and use of forgeries.
- Acting for the CEO of a construction group in a case of breach of trust and theft.