Against a backdrop of intensifying criminal prosecutions in economic and financial matters and the proliferation of administrative investigations, the firm advises executives, companies (SMEs and mid-caps), investors and public figures — whether accused or victims — at every stage of criminal proceedings: preliminary investigation, instruction, trial court and appeals.
The firm's intervention covers the full range of procedural acts: first-appearance interrogation, civil party hearings, searches, criminal seizures, and all protective measures (asset freezing, AGRASC).
The firm has developed specific expertise in complex financial offences, whether defending executives under prosecution or filing civil party applications on behalf of investors, companies or creditors who are victims.
Defence of an executive prosecuted for misuse of corporate assets and bankruptcy offences in criminal proceedings opened following the judicial liquidation of a company. The strategy was centred on challenging the intentional element and demonstrating the corporate interest of the operations, articulated with parallel civil litigation.
Representation of the interests of investors who suffered losses in a large-scale financial fraud case, including coordination of civil party applications, follow-up of immovable criminal seizures entrusted to AGRASC (the French Asset Recovery Agency), and articulation with civil litigation brought in parallel against the financial intermediaries who had breached their professional obligations.
The firm acts on cases with a cross-border dimension, where French proceedings, requests for international judicial assistance and sanctions mechanisms intersect.
Assistance to a French national sentenced to life imprisonment in Indonesia: organising transfer proceedings to France, coordinating with French and Indonesian diplomatic and judicial authorities, and devising an institutional communications strategy.
Attacks on reputation call for a swift, technical and coordinated response. The firm intervenes urgently to halt the harm, preserve digital evidence and pursue the appropriate proceedings, whether in cases of defamatory statements, smear campaigns, cyberattacks or breaches of privacy.
Criminal complaint with civil party application filed on behalf of an executive who was the target of an aggravated public defamation campaign online. The strategy combined bailiff records of the impugned publications, requisitions to the platforms to identify the authors, and a civil party application followed by a judicial investigation.
