ABPA - Apelbaum Bendavid Poincloux Associés > Paris, France > Firm Profile
ABPA - Apelbaum Bendavid Poincloux Associés Offices
24, rue de Berri
75008 Paris
France
ABPA - Apelbaum Bendavid Poincloux Associés > The Legal 500 Rankings
France > Dispute resolution: White-collar crime Tier 3
Specialising in white-collar criminal law, ABPA - Apelbaum Bendavid Poincloux Associés fields a sizeable team that is able to handle a range of cases, representing companies, senior executives or other individuals. The team is regularly entrusted to deal with tax fraud, embezzlement, money laundering and corruption accusations including PNF-led investigations. It also handles a number of sensitive criminal employment, accident, extradition and politically related cases. The practice is headed by founding partners David Apelbaum, Michaël Bendavid and Margaux Durand-Poincloux.Practice head(s):
David Apelbaum; Michaël Bendavid; Margaux Durand-Poincloux
Testimonials
‘This team is exceptional due to the remarkable level of its partners (David Apelbaum, Margaux Durand Poincloux, Michael Bendavid). They all have remarkable experience which allows them to handle particularly sophisticated files with efficiency and speed. The team is very dynamic and therefore innovative, doing everything possible to provide the best possible service to its customer.’
‘The team is made up of excellent lawyers specializing in criminal law, young and particularly dynamic. They demonstrate great rigor and perfect integrity and are certainly among the very best of their generation.’
‘David Apelbaum is an exceptional lawyer who is very technically comfortable. Experienced, hardworking and dynamic. He is also perfectly collaborative, which allows subtle strategies to be developed in a partnership manner. Margaux Durand Poincloux and Michaël Bendavid have the same qualities (experience, dynamism, high legal technicality).’
‘Michaël Bendavid is an excellent lawyer, responsive and available. First of all, he has excellent technical mastery and a perfect knowledge of criminal procedure which he knows how to use in the interests of his clients. He also has very good relationships with magistrates and a perfect analysis of the way they reason and how they can be convinced. He also has a global vision of his files and and an ability to recommend long-term strategies. He challenges clients to bring out additional elements and prepare them perfectly in advance of legal deadlines. Finally, he has a great tactical sense of the hearing and he is a superb litigator. ’
‘A dynamic and responsive team, very attentive and with imaginative solutions and out of the box thinking.’
‘They have a very hands on and realistic approach, committed to reach the best possible result for their clients, based on honest advice as to what to expect. ’
‘David Apelbaum is full of energy, and always extremely precise in his legal analysis. Margaux Poincloux is particularly rigorous, leaves nothing to chance and appears to be one of the most brilliant criminal lawyers of her generation. ’
‘Margaux Durand Poincloux demonstrates remarkable personal and professional qualities both in the investigation of the case and in the conduct of the hearing. Her qualities are empathy and extraordinary eloquence, punctuated by a relevant sense of humor.’
Key clients
AdhexPharma group
Ms Sonia Arrouas
Mr Nadav Bensoussan
Mr Olivier Carvin
Church of Scientology
Mr Richard Desumeur
Filiassur
French National Bar Council
Hedios Patrimoine
Institution Jeanne d’Arc de Montrouge
Mr Jean-Luc Lahaye
Mr Stéphane Manigold
Marval group Club Pierre Charron
Mr Kabirou Mbodje
Mersen
National Syndicate of Medical Junior Practicioners
Otis Elevator Company
PM SA
Pratt & Whitney
Mr Pierre Reynaud
Mr François-Xavier Susini
Mr Sergeï Pugachev
UDS Can Online
Ugitech
West Atlantic
Work highlights
- Represented a hotel and real estate businessman, accused of alleged money laundering in collaboration with the Corsican Mafia.
- Represented a Russian national, former billionaire and political opponent, in various criminal procedures in France for fraud, extortion and illegal spying, related to attempts at depriving him of his international assets.
- Represented an international airline company accused of concealed employment, raising new legal questions about the status of freight airline employees, and obtaining the postponement of a hearing and the ordering of new investigations targeting French Social Security.
Lawyer Profiles
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David Apelbaum | Associé | View Profile |
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Michaël Bendavid | Associé | View Profile |
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Margaux Durand-Poincloux | Associée | View Profile |
International Capabilities
ABPA works in an international environment. Attorneys are up-to-date with evolving rules of international criminal law, especially of the always-increasing importance of European Union rules – notably with the creation of the European Public Prosecutor Office in 2020.
Team and skills
ABPA’s attorneys speak and work in French, English, Spanish and Italian. We are regularly instructed on:
- Cases investigated in France with a strong international aspect, mostly in financial and tax crime matters;
- Mutual legal assistance procedures conducted by French judicial authorities abroad;
- Mutual legal assistance procedures conducted by foreign judicial authorities in France;
- Extradition and European Arrest Warrant procedures.
Clients
Our international clients are foreign companies (European Union, United Kingdom, United States, Singapore) and foreign individuals or French individuals living abroad (European Union, United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland, Russia, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Israel, Syria, China, Thailand).
While making French criminal procedure understandable to clients from other legal backgrounds and cultures, we endeavor, by all means specific to international criminal lax (safe-conduct, mutual legal assistance, videoconference hearings, European mechanisms of judicial supervision and asset freezing), to establish strategies tailored to particular situations.
Network
ABPA has a network of trusty law firms, specialized in white-collar criminal defense, in most European Union Member States (notably through the European Criminal Bar Association, of which ABPA is a member), as well as in the United Kingdom, the United States and Switzerland.
Diversity
All lawyers at ABPA provide pro bono legal assistance on a permanent basis. They act as counsel to disadvantaged and unemployed people accused of major crimes or victims of serious offences.
ABPA partners and associates regularly assist deprived people subjected to immediate appearance hearings (“comparution immediate”) or brought before an investigating judge for potential indictment. In line with these commitments, they also intervene before criminal courts for those people.
Separately, ABPA advises political activists and non-governmental organizations fighting for the environment and against racism and xenophobia.
Lastly, ABPA lawyers also contributes to the Conseil National des Barreaux with respect to the elaboration of guidelines for the promotion of human rights in the workplace
Client Testimonials
CLIENT: Etienne Huré, group general counsel
COMPANY/FIRM: Otis Elevator Company
TESTIMONIAL: A great expertise in the fields for which we seek their advice, an in-depth knowledge of our company and its environment, a notable work capacity and a fantastic availability, a reactivity we appreciate: for all these reasons, we enjoy working with ABPA.
CLIENT: Alain Pancrazi, senior adviser
COMPANY/FIRM: PM SA
TESTIMONIAL: I would like to express my warmest thanks for ABPA’s involvement in the management of my cases.
ABPA’s lawyers are always one step ahead on the procedure. They have an acute knowledge of financial mechanisms, a great sense of human contact, and are able to adapt perfectly their strategy to the difficulties that arise. In addition, the team is particularly responsive.
CLIENT: Hacène Chibane, elected official
COMPANY/FIRM: n/a
TESTIMONIAL: I want to express my satisfaction with the outcome and the way in which ABPA handled my cases.
Their listening skills, their involvement in these cases, their excellent knowledge of law and their extraordinary pleadings undeniably influenced the outcome of these complex instances.
I therefore wanted to thank them and convey to them the pleasure I had for having entrusted my interests to this firm.
CLIENT: Lise Choisnet, group general counsel
COMPANY/FIRM: Church of Scientology France
TESTIMONIAL: ABPA is excellent. We always appreciate the promptness and the precision of their work. This is a professional office, with talented attorneys, who are dedicated to work to offer you the best solutions.
- Dispute resolution: White-collar crime