Specialising in white-collar and general criminal law, Cabinet Maisonneuve manages a large and diverse caseload, encompassing corruption, and financial criminal offences, often acting for former high-ranking executives and individuals. The team is also regularly entrusted with cases linked to the sports industry, such as doping cases, while its criminal employment law expertise also deserves a strong mention, with the firm regularly acting in sensitive cases involving harassment allegations. Finally, the team has proven experience helping clients negotiate CJIPs (deferred prosecution agreements) and was recently instructed regarding the breach of companies’ duty of vigilance requirements in relation to the environment. The practice is co-headed by Patrick Maisonneuve, who is one of the most recognised figures of the Paris bar, Antoine Maisonneuve and Bérénice de Warren.
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Testimonials
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- ‘Excellent, very customer-focused, discreet and available.’
- ‘The firm has a perfect knowledge of criminal law and white-collar crime, with the necessary perspective for handling sensitive cases.’
- ‘Antoine Maisonneuve is responsive, pragmatic, and always acts in the best interests of his clients.’
- ‘Antoine Maisonneuve is a very good practitioner, capable of grasping a wide variety of subjects in criminal law.’
- ‘The team is responsive and efficient. Highly competent and dedicated.’
- ‘A very good and responsive team that gets straight to the point and is capable of handling all types of criminal litigation.’
Key clients
- Guy Alves (Bygmalion)
- Sébastien de Montessus (Areva)
- Laurent Simonin (Benalla)
- Jacques Moulin (Orange)
- Paris-Saint Germain Football Club
- European Parliament
- Bernard Squarcini
- Université de Paris
- Joelle Ceccaldi (maire de Puteaux)
- Jean Pierre de Vincenzi (ancien directeur général de l’INSEP)
- Pierre Sardet |(Auditor of Mazars)
- Eric Garandeau (Cultural Advisor of the French President)
Work highlights
Advising the European Parliament on criminal proceedings against three political parties, including in its ongoing case against the Rassemblement National and its leader Marine Le Pen before the Paris Judicial Court.
Assisted Paprec, which had been summoned before an investigating magistrate with a view to being formally charged, notably for acts of corruption.
Advising Pierre Giacometti, former communications adviser to President Nicolas Sarkozy, prosecuted on charges of concealment of ‘favouritisme’ before the Court of appeal of Paris.
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Practice head
Patrick Maisonneuve; Antoine Maisonneuve; Bérénice de Warren