The White-Collar Crime team of Coblence Avocats advises companies and their directors and officers facing criminal risks or criminal proceedings, often in sensitive and exposed contexts.
The team defends and assists its clients at every stage of criminal proceedings, from the preliminary investigation and the formal judicial inquiry through to the trial on the merits, in connection with prosecutions covering all offences linked to business activity. Its work focuses in particular on financial offences, breaches of integrity, criminal employment law and criminal tax law.
The firm also acts upstream of any procedure, in order to identify and assess risks and to define appropriate protective measures, in particular through the implementation of delegations of authority for companies and their directors and officers.
Our work is part of a cross-disciplinary logic, in close coordination with the firm’s Corporate, Tax, Employment and Litigation teams, in order to ensure a global reading of situations and a coherence between criminal, economic and patrimonial issues.
Advice and defence on all offences linked to business activity, including financial offences (misuse of corporate assets, breach of trust, fraud, false accounting) and breaches of integrity (favouritism, illegal taking of interests, corruption, influence peddling).
The firm advises and represents its clients in all disputes concerning the health or well-being of employees, as well as compliance with workplace hygiene and safety rules, including issues relating to workplace accidents. It also acts on offences relating to illegal work (undeclared work, unlawful labour leasing or labour-only contracting) or the exercise of union rights (obstruction, union discrimination).
Advice to companies and their directors and officers in criminal tax proceedings (tax fraud, money laundering), from the investigation phase through to the criminal court hearing, with an approach tailored to the patrimonial and reputational stakes.
Advice to directors, officers and decision-makers on the analysis and management of their criminal exposure, both in prevention and in defence, in particular in sensitive situations or in contexts with a strong reputational dimension.
Identification and assessment of risks, definition and implementation of appropriate protective measures: implementation of delegations of authority, conduct of internal investigations and support in the management of criminal and reputational crises.
