Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (UK) LLP

White Collar Defense and Investigations

Counsel

Louis Guesdon has extensive experience in criminal litigation, with a specific focus on white collar criminal defense and international enforcement proceedings.

Prior to joining Skadden, Mr. Guesdon was a partner in a French boutique law firm that focused on criminal law, including financial and corporate criminal matters involving money laundering, tax fraud, market abuse, insider trading, embezzlement, bribery, bankruptcy crimes and the recovery of assets. He has advised governments, public officials, companies and executives on high-stakes criminal cases in France and abroad.

His work on transnational criminal cases has included matters involving extradition, corruption, freezing of assets, embargoes and international sanctions and multijurisdictional investigations, as well as Interpol data proceedings.

Mr. Guesdon has broad knowledge of the French criminal prosecution system due to frequent engagement with offices of investigating magistrates (juge d’instruction) and liberty and custody judges (juges des libertés et de la détention). He also regularly engages with the central offices of the judicial police (offices centraux de police judiciaire) and criminal courts that specialize in financial matters. In January he joined Skadden alongside Emmanuel Marsigny and his team.

French, English, Italian

Certification for the Profession of Attorney, Paris Bar School, 2009 Master's Degree, University of Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne, 2007 Master's Degree, HEC School of Management, 2011 License, University of Paris I - Pantheon-Sorbonne, 2005