August Debouzy houses a prominent practice able to tackle a wide array of cases, including defending top companies or their high-ranking executives in high-stakes tax fraud and embezzlement investigations, often led by the PNF. Jointly steered by Astrid Mignon Colombet and Valérie Munoz-Pons, the team shows great ability to handle matters that have strong international components, while also demonstrating strong know-how in managing cases raising sensitive employment, environment and human rights issues.
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Testimonials
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- 'Valérie Munoz Pons is excellent, a good communicator with clients, clear, precise, and focused on finding solutions for the client. She is personable and very pleasant. She is a very effective communicator.'
- 'Sophisticated, top-tier team, particularly good at investigations and enforcement matters with international, cross-border dimensions.'
- 'Olivier Attias, Astrid Mignon, and their team have provided outstanding support to sophisticated companies facing the most complex situations.'
- 'Astrid Mignon Colombet is a standout performer. Calm, wise, strategic, and personable.'
- 'Excellent expertise, solid experience, and high-value advice.'
- 'A very competent and professional team that knows how to meet its clients' expectations.'
Key clients
- Crédit Foncier de France
- McKinsey & Company, Inc. France
- TechnipFMC
- SNCF
- Penelope Fillon
- Guy Dauphin Environnement
- Alteo
- Yannick Alléno
- Philip Morris
- Dany Boon
Work highlights
Advising Enedis, on legal strategies and litigation against "Linky" electricity fraud, including criminal prosecutions and lobbying efforts to combat illegal energy consumption manipulation.
Advising a mining company in environmental criminal law, in relation to an investigation into the disposal of effluents from its site into the sea.
Advising a senior executive of a bank in a large-scale investigation into money laundering related to tax fraud in the context of the cum-cum and cum-ex scandals.
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Practice head
Astrid Mignon Colombet; Valérie Munoz-Pons