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What we do

Criminal Litigation

Gide is a favoured contact for companies and their directors who face criminal prosecution. Advising claimants and defendants indiscriminately, our firm is renowned for its expertise in criminal litigation, and more particularly in corporate criminal litigation.

Our lawyers are highly experienced in criminal law and criminal proceedings, and work in several different teams according to their field of specialisation (general criminal law, criminal law applied to business, stock market, environmental and employment matters, etc.).

They work hand-in-hand with practitioners specialising in administrative and disciplinary procedures before the French Financial Markets Authority (AMF), the Banking Commission and the Disciplinary Commission of the AMF.

Their expertise enables them to act at all stages of criminal risk management:

  • Upstream, through assessment of the criminal risk.
     
  • During the criminal proceedings, from the investigation or instruction phases through to pleading before the courts.
     
  • More generally in crisis management, from setting up a dedicated team to coordinating communication.

The team’s expertise is recognised in the following fields:

  • Breach of corporate law (fraudulent use of corporate property, presentation of tampered corporate financial statements)
     
  • Corruption, influence peddling, grafting, favouritism
     
  • Fraud and serious breach of trust, forgery and use of forged documents
     
  • Money-laundering and illegal receipt of corporate funds
     
  • Financial offence
     
  • Pollution
     
  • Accident at work

Our lawyers specialising in the above fields regularly act in cases with a significant international scope. These include:

  • International letters rogatory proceedings, extradition, international arrest warrants, etc.
     
  • Regularly pleading before international criminal courts.

Experience includes:

  • Advising and representing a French audiovisual group after the death in Syria of one of its leading reporters.
     
  • Advising and defending an international group trading in raw material and its board before the courts of Abidjan in Côte d’Ivoire as part of a dispute regarding the pollution of Abidjan city.
     
  • Representing the management of an international transport company as part of an investigation into the corruption of a foreign public officer.

Varied practice encompassing expertise in market abuse, bribery, money laundering, competition and fraud. Regularly assists clients with the establishment of compliance programmes.
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