King & Spalding LLP regularly defends high-profile individuals and senior executives facing high-stakes fraud and corporate offences investigations in France and often simultaneously in other countries. The Parisian practice also frequently teams up with the firm’s other international offices to assist corporations with the conduct of large-scale internal investigations and compliance work. Finally, the team also assists NGOs and victims of terrorism threats and of human rights violations. Practice head Jean Tamalet and Aurélie Chazottes  are recommended.
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Profile

Work Department

Special matters and governement investigations 

Career

Jean Tamalet is a partner in King & Spalding’s Special Matters & Government Investigations practice. Highly experienced with sensitive cases, Jean has assisted major corporations and corporate executives in several large litigation cases over the past decade. He has extensive experience in many areas related to criminal liability of companies and their executives, and regularly assists environmental protection associations.

After running his own firm for seven years, Jean joined Bird & Bird as a partner and co-head of their white-collar crime practice. Sensitized to economic intelligence issues, he advised corporate executives on crisis management, both in France and abroad.

Jean is the author of the "criminal procedure" section of the Practical Guide for Lawyers, and is a lecturer at the Bar School and the Economic Warfare School. He has taught business criminal law at the Pantheon-Sorbonne University and provides training courses.

Languages

French and English

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Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • ‘Jean Tamalet : expertise and ability to reassure clients and take a step back. Aurélie Chazotte: ability to demonstrate finesse and real expertise.

  • ‘Good strategies.’

  • ‘Responsiveness, competence, network.'

  • ‘A dynamic and energetic team. Diligent, confraternal and a positive and benevolent vision of professional relationships.'

  • ‘Jean Tamalet: the driving force behind the team Aurélie Chazottes: bright, dedicated and intelligent.'

Key clients

  • Armando Pereira (ALTICE)
  • Eric Freymond
  • Business SA / HEROIKS
  • Carlos Ghosn
  • Paul Watson
  • Didier François
  • Amine Elbahi
  • Sea Shepherd
  • Yves Rocher
  • Maurice Lecoy / FICOSA

Work highlights

Defending Armando Pereira, Portugal’s richest man and co-founder of Altice in internal investigations in France, Portugal, USA and Dominican Republic, as well as in legal proceedings in Portugal and France.
Defending Eric Freymond, a Swiss businessman and the former wealth manager of Nicolas Puech, a French billionaire and heir to Hermès in facing prosecutions in France and Switzerland.
Defending Carlos Ghosn in a major international white-collar cases.