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Corporate criminal law and compliance

Chatain Associes advises and represents French and foreign companies, company heads, and public institutions in corporate criminal law and is attentive to all risks of a financial or reputational nature.

Our services

Our firm, although small enough to have a human touch, can provide you with proven expertise and recognised experience in the following areas of law:

General criminal law

Economic and financial criminal law

Criminal Tax law

Civil Criminal law

Compliance (AFA controls) and criminal law risk audit

Stock market criminal law (AMF and criminal jurisdictions)

Criminal consumer, health and environmental law

Criminal labour law

01Support

We provide you with assistance in all jurisdictions and with all regulatory authorities throughout every step of proceedings (preliminary examinations, inquiries and trials). Our main goal is to preserve your interests.

02Compliance

We also advise our clients on questions of compliance and new CSE issues (French Law Sapin II, Law on the duty of care).

03Crisis management

We can also help in crises, such as internal enquiries, whistleblower management, damages evaluation, or criminal risk management.

Recent experiences

Defence of an Irish financial services company offering asset management services within the framework of a tax fraud case; 

Defence of a French company specialising in the manufacture of essential oils, within the framework of a case for aggravated tax evasion and money laundering; 

Assistance to a public central procurement agency within the framework of the development of its corruption prevention mechanism;

Assistance and defence of a former head of a public entity within the framework of an investigation for favouritism;

Assistance to companies that were victims of hacking and payment means fraud
Assistance to and defence of a company executive indicted for insider trading;

Assistance to a company executive accused by the AMF of various breaches;

Defence of a company in the field of pharmaceuticals and personal care products for unfair business practices;

Defence of individuals charged with pour aggravated tax evasion and money laundering.

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Dedicated team