White Collar
Defense

Duverne Avocat can defend you at all stages of criminal proceedings and advise you on legal strategy as well as on your crisis communication and reputational risk management.

Clémentine Duverne has worked in prominent cases making her particularly skilled in dealing with technical issues before French courts.

— Defense of a listed company in a procedure initiated over allegations of complicity in genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

— Defense of a co-ownership trustee charged with manslaughter for breach of a safety obligation.

— Advising an executive member of an investment fund in a judicial investigation on allegations of financing of terrorism and complicity in crimes against humanity.

— Representing banking institution victims of credit card fraud in organized gangs fraud and counterfeiting proceedings.

— Representing banks and their employees who have been victims of robbery before criminal courts and representing employees before the French Compensation Commission for Crime Victims (CIVI) and the Recovery Assistance Service for Crime Victims (SARVI).

— Representing an individual intervening as a civil party in a procedure on counts of breach of trust, passive corruption and laundering of proceeds of corruption against a former employee.

— Representing a company as a civil party in a criminal procedure on allegations of invasion of privacy.

— Advising executive members of a financial institution who were victims of identity theft on social media, as well as in cases of « impersonation of the CEO ».

— Representing an individual victim in the context of abuse of a state of weakness.

— Defense of a car dealer charged with union discrimination, workplace harassment and with impeding the free exercise of employees’ rights.

— Representing a French listed company as a civil party in several procedures involving counts of gang-related theft, deliberate damage and destruction of property.