CRIMINAL DEFENCE
AND LITIGATION
THE CABINET
Founded on solid experience and driven by values shared by its partners, GOSSET LASEK ESCLATINE AVOCATS is an independent law firm dedicated exclusively to criminal law. We support a wide range of clients - individuals, corporate bodies, company directors, governments and institutions - before all criminal jurisdictions in France, as well as in domestic and international investigations. Renowned for its excellence, our firm is recognized nationally and internationally for its mastery of high-profile criminal cases. We handle complex proceedings with major legal, economic and media implications. Our approach is based on personalized defense, collaboration with multidisciplinary experts and total independence, ensured by a practice entirely dedicated to criminal defense. True to our commitment to tailor-made defense, the firm combines the individual expertise of its partners with a collaborative approach. Each case benefits from an in-depth analysis and an adapted strategy, taking into account the specific issues at stake for each of our clients. The total independence of our firm and our multidisciplinary vision enable us to respond effectively to the challenges of modern litigation. Thanks to our proven experience in national and international cases, our firm is a benchmark player, recognized for its rigor, discretion, experience, commitment and strategic expertise.
EXPERTISE
For more than two decades, the partners of GOSSET LASEK ESCLATINE AVOCATS have established themselves as major players in criminal investigations and repressive regulatory litigation. We have extensive and recognized experience in this field: police custody, searches, requests for international mutual assistance, judicial information. Our expertise is an essential asset for our customers.
Internationally, the firm has recognized expertise in cross-border criminal law and international law. Able to integrate current criminal law issues into the analysis of the most complex legal situations, the firm offers its clients tailored strategic support. Finally, the firm has developed recognized expertise in regulatory litigation, notably in stock market matters before the Autorité des Marchés Financiers.
In collaboration with other specialized and expert law firms, we build strategies tailored to the challenges of each case. Renowned for its ability to manage high-stakes proceedings, GOSSET LASEK ESCLATINE AVOCATS combines excellence, experience and humanity to offer first-rate strategic support and tailor-made defense.
CRIMINAL LAW – BUSINESS
• Criminal law as it applies to the stock market and corporations, corruption, collusion, favouritism, bribery, embezzlement of public funds and other breaches of probity, French or international procedures for freezing of assets, abuse of company property, forgery and use of forgeries, money laundering, bankruptcy, false balance sheets, scams, deceptive commercial practices
• Criminal tax law: tax fraud, money laundering as part of tax fraud
• Criminal proceedings following major catastrophes: air, railway and industrial accidents
• International criminal law: proceedings for extradition and freezing of assets
• Criminal law – labour: workplace accidents and violation of regulations governing hygiene and security, hidden work
• Criminal consumer law: deception about substantive qualities, false advertising
• Criminal law – environment and urban planning
• Criminal law – health
• Criminal law – new technology and cybercrime
CRIMINAL LAW – GENERAL AND SPECIFIC
• Offences against the person: violence, homicide, rape
• Offences against property: theft, fraud, abuse of trust, abuse of vulnerability
LAW OF THE PRESS AND CIVIL RIGHTS
• Slander, defamation
• Incitement to commit crimes / offences, incitement to discrimination
• Protection of private life
THE TEAM
GOSSET LASEK ESCLATINE AVOCATS offers its clients the strength of a team of ten experienced lawyers, entirely dedicated to criminal defense.
Close-knit, available, reactive and independent, our team supports our clients and partners in their needs and interests. We put at their disposal our capacity for analysis and our expertise in legal practices, acquired over 25 years, in order to offer an active, tailor-made criminal defense service.
With a high level of seniority, our team successfully handles high-profile criminal proceedings involving complex legal issues, high-profile media coverage and/or high stakes. Accustomed to working within defense groups, particularly in English, we can intervene in all specific areas of criminal law.
In recent years, they have been involved in cases such as the Cercle Wagram, the Médiator, a case linked to Madoff, the alleged misappropriation of Eurodisney works council funds, the Aristophil scandal, the Rio-Paris flight crash, the Balkany affair, the Covéa/Scor dispute, the rue d'Aubagne collapse, the Concorde crash, the Oil for Food program, the financial aspects of the Karachi attack, the Élysée polls and France Telecom. .
