White-Collar Crime

About

Provided by Bredin Prat

The firm’s criminal defence practice has more than 30 years of in-depth experience and regularly assists corporate clients and their senior executives when they encounter criminal law issues which can arise when carrying out an economic activity. The team assists and defends clients, whose identity is not disclosed due to the specific nature of this area of law, in connection with, for example, the following:

• breach of the duty of integrity
• embezzlement
• criminal liability with respect to securities law
• tax evasion
• criminal liability with respect to employment law
• criminal liability with respect to consumer protection laws
• criminal liability in insolvency matters
• criminal liability with respect to digital law

The Bredin Prat criminal defence team regularly assists clients:

• in initial investigations conducted by officials from the criminal investigation department or by officials from various administrative authorities
• in pre-trial investigations conducted by one or more investigating judges;
• in French domestic, cross-border and multi-jurisdictional proceedings or investigations, including those relating to cases before specialised courts and international mutual assistance proceedings;
• in relation to all of the above, in the exchanges with court officials