Criminal business law
Our expertise
Our expertise
We provide advice and assistance to French and foreign businesses and managers in all aspects of criminal business law, with a focus on press law and criminal labour law issues. Our criminal law specialists are familiar with criminal procedural rules and how they combine with the rules governing related civil proceedings and are called upon to initiate proceedings, evolve procedural strategies, and address criminal liability risks in the law firm’s other areas of expertise.
What we do
We help clients to anticipate criminal liability risks:
- We draw up (intragroup) delegations.
- We carry out audits and we map criminal liability risks.
We provide assistance to clients in police custody, we brief/debrief clients called upon to testify.
We represent clients during judicial investigations:
- We ensure we get access to the investigation file.
- We draw up petitions and discovery applications.
- We lodge appeals against orders issued by the investigating judge.
- We assist clients under formal investigation, witnesses interviewed under criminal caution, and civil claimants during hearings and confrontations.
We implement alternative proceedings:
- Out-of-court settlements, mediation, arbitration, guilty pleas, etc.
We provide assistance to indicted clients and civil claimants before the criminal courts.
Among our files
Life Sciences
- Proceedings for manslaughter and unintentional wounding through the use of a drug
- Criminal proceedings relating to the application of the French “DMOS” act regulating relations between businesses and the medical profession
Competition law
- Criminal investigation of the violation of the trade secrets of a company specializing in top-of-the-range ceramics
- Criminal proceedings for suspected active/passive corruption
Company law
- Criminal proceedings relating to the obstruction of the work of the company auditor in a stock company
- Criminal proceedings for corruption and misappropration of corporate property
Commercial law
- Wire transfer fraud: Negotiations with the bank on behalf of the victim for the purpose getting reimbursed
- Criminal proceedings relating to deceptive advertising and deception concerning the quality of real property offered up for sale by a franchisee real estate agency of a major real estate group
- Criminal investigation of cases of fraud and deception concerning the quality of a top-of-the-range catamaran
- Criminal investigation of embezzlement by the officers of an insurance group during its privatization
Intellectual property law
- Criminal investigation of the infringement of works by major artists and the distribution of the resulting counterfeits, followed by criminal proceeding
Consumer law
- Criminal investigation of cases of abuse of weakness when taking out life-insurance contracts
- Representation of victims
Industrial risk
- Manslaughter investigation passengers following a fire in a Franco-German train
- Manslaughter proceedings following an airliner crash
Employment
- Criminal proceedings relating to the harassment of a member of a Parisian department store’s staff
- Criminal proceedings relating to the illegal subcontracting of labour and concealed work in the field of computer engineering subcontracting services
- Criminal proceedings relating to the bribery of employees of a company manufacturing medical equipment by the subcontracting company
Tax / Customs
- Criminal investigation and proceedings relating to VAT fraud
- Criminal proceedings for the unlawful importing of counterfeits
- Criminal proceedings for incorrect accounting (alcoholic products)
Transport / Logistics
- Proceedings for determining whether principals are jointly and severally liable in national insurance fraud cases
- Proceedings in driving time-related cases
- Criminal investigation for manslaughter
- Criminal investigation for armed robbery and/or for organized warehouse theft
Press law
- Exercising clients’ right of reply following publications on blogs or in press articles