Mr Guillaume Pellegrin > Bredin Prat > Paris, France > Lawyer Profile

Bredin Prat
53 QUAI D'ORSAY
75007 PARIS
France

Work Department

Litigation

Position

Partner

Career

Guillaume Pellegrin, Partner, is a member of the Litigation team. He regularly advises companies and their executives before the Civil, Commercial and Criminal courts.

His practice mainly focuses on criminal matters (economic and financial offenses, criminal tax law) as well as the definition, implementation and litigation of compliance policies and various legal or regulatory standards.

He is a former Secrétaire de la Conférence des avocats au barreau de Paris.

Languages

French, English, Spanish

Memberships

Admitted to the Paris Bar in 2008

Education

Guillaume is a graduate of the business school HEC Paris (International Tax and Legal Strategy, 2006), the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (Master II in Tax and Business Law, 2006) and the University of Paris XI (Master’s degree in Business Law, 2005).

Lawyer Rankings

France > Compliance

Bredin Prat routinely assists clients with setting up procedures concerning the prevention of corruption and breach of the duty of integrity, duty of vigilance and internal anti-money laundering procedures, in addition to conducting internal investigations relating to internal control procedures. Éric Dezeuze, who advises companies on AFA controls, jointly leads the team alongside Guillaume Pellegrin, who acts for multinational corporations in litigation concerning the duty of vigilance.

France > Dispute resolution: White-collar crime

Bredin Prat is a recognised market leader and handles a strong share of headline cases including several of France’s most high-profile criminal tax law disputes. Acting for leading banks and many major French and international companies or their top executives, the firm is also entrusted to handle high-stakes industrial scandals and accidents, bribery, financial criminal law and criminal employment law offences. Recently, the team has also been retained to handle a highly sensitive accusation concerning complicity in a crime against humanity; a new emerging type of offence in the French business world. Eric Dezeuze   is an expert in the field and Guillaume Pellegrin is the other key player in the team.