Valérie Munoz-Pons

Practice Areas

Valérie Munoz-Pons has been a member of the Paris bar since 2007. Her practice focuses on white-collar crime, investigations, and compliance.

Valérie assists her clients with criminal cases initiated by judicial and regulatory authorities, at all stages of proceedings, from investigations to final hearings.

She has particular expertise in cases, including international ones, related to white-collar crime (corruption, favoritism, illegal taking of interest, tax fraud, money laundering, publishing of false financial statements, misuse of corporate assets) and in environmental criminal law.

Valérie also assists French and international clients with internal investigations and compliance issues (whistleblowing, “Sapin II Law” audits, training, etc.) in connection with French laws and regulations (“Sapin II” Law and “duty of care” law) and the extraterritorial application of US (FCPA) and UK (UKBA) laws and regulations.

She worked in the Paris office of the US law firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP for several years.

She teaches compliance, international regulation and business ethics at the Institute of Political Studies, also called Sciences Po.

She also teaches at the Institut des hautes études de défense nationale (IHEDN), after several years of teaching at HEC business school.