Our responsive team is always on hand to meet our clients’ needs at every stage of criminal proceedings (custody, investigation, judicial information, hearing).
We appear before all criminal courts, including magistrates’ courts and criminal courts, in mainland France, for all types of offences.
We also represent detainees before sentencing courts, to help them adjust the terms and conditions of their sentences (placement under electronic surveillance; conditional release; semi-liberty; extension of the security period, etc.).
We assist them in their relations with the prison administration (blocking of visitation permits, laundry) or with their probation officer and, where applicable, before disciplinary commissions.
We also intervene before the administrative courts, for example in appeals on grounds of ultra vires against decisions to place people in solitary confinement.
We assist our clients before the criminal courts and regulatory authorities (AMF, tax authorities, etc.), at every stage of the proceedings (investigation, inquiry, judgment).
The firm also intervenes in cases involving breaches of the French Labor Code (obstruction, illegal lending of manpower, bargaining, harassment or damage to employees’ health).
We also intervene upstream, on issues of compliance, ethics and governance, to help companies and individuals prevent the criminal risk they may face.
Thanks to our experience in sensitive, high-profile cases, we can also provide our clients with a communications and crisis management service.
We appear before international and regional human rights courts, including the European Court of Human Rights, the African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights, ad hoc tribunals, the Human Rights Committee, the United Nations Committee against Torture, and the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.
In France, we appear before the criminal and administrative courts to assist people whose freedoms have been violated by the authorities and all those involved in the criminal justice system, including in prisons.
Our dedicated team combines solid experience in criminal law with in-depth knowledge of financial market mechanisms, developing tailor-made strategies for each case.
We support our clients, both individuals and corporate entities, in cases of alleged breaches of market regulations (insider trading, price manipulation, etc.).
Our multi-disciplinary team also assists our clients with their compliance and communication needs.
Having successfully intervened in complex and high-profile cases of market abuse, we draw on this experience to defend our clients’ interests to the full.
We regularly advise artists, galleries, dealers and experts in the conduct of their activities (practice structures, contractual relations, protection of trademark rights, counterfeiting, etc.).
We also defend them in complex legal disputes that frequently have a dual civil and criminal component.
The firm also assists persons subject to Interpol notices and diffusions.
We defend our clients’ image and reputation in defamation or insult proceedings, and intervene urgently to put a stop to attacks on the presumption of innocence or privacy.
We also ensure the implementation of rights of reply and rectification and requests for the deletion or dereferencing of online content.
We advise sports federations, top-level professional players and French and foreign professional clubs in their strategic development.
We assist all players in the world of sport and the media in the conduct of their activities (contracts, image, sponsors, assets).
We appear before specialized non-state authorities (disciplinary commissions, leagues and federations, the Lausanne Court of Arbitration for Sport) and ordinary courts.
We appear before the regulatory authorities and the ordinary courts in individual disputes between patients and practitioners, notably concerning medical errors, breaches of information obligations or therapeutic hazards.
We also intervene in group actions relating to defective health products, vaccines, environmental pollution or health scandals such as asbestos.
Our dedicated team combines solid experience in criminal law with in-depth knowledge of financial market mechanisms, developing tailor-made strategies for each case.
We support our clients, both individuals and corporate entities, in cases of alleged breaches of market regulations (insider trading, price manipulation, etc.).
Our multi-disciplinary team also assists our clients with their compliance and communication needs.
On the strength of our successful interventions in complex, high-profile market abuse cases, we draw on this experience to defend our clients’ interests to the full.