Paul Hastings LLP‘s has extensive experience handling sensitive WCC cases, spanning corruption, tax fraud, criminal corporate and consumer law and securities offenses. The Parisian team can rely on cutting-edge WCC US expertise available within its US offices, which is a key asset when dealing with global investigations involving the US authorities or multilateral development banks. The team is also highly regarded for its high-level compliance and internal investigation know-how, and has extensive experience negotiating plea bargaining agreements with criminal authorities. Finally, the team’s strength also extends to dealing with industrial disasters and consumer product scandals, while among its recent involvements feature high-profile money laundering and drug trafficking cases involving major cryptocurrency finance actors. Antonin Lévy, Ophélia Claude and Joris Monin de Flaugergues co-head the practice, and are well supported by Quentin Dreyfus.
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- ‘Availability, responsiveness, proximity and competence.’
- ‘Antonin Lévy is a leading lawyer for landmark cases or major international matters.’
- ‘Highly responsive team. Very pragmatic approach to cases.’
- ‘An outstanding white-collar powerhouse’.
- ‘Paul Hastings is a savvy, proactive, and commercially minded law firm, that understands the importance of patience when a client is contemplating its next steps and is extremely flexible and able to rapidly pivot to a different momentum when a client's strategy evolves. ‘
- ‘Ophélia Claude is a strategic and proactive thinker that is quickly able to comprehend complex commercial and technical topics. She has a strong sense of integrity and professionalism. Quentin Dreyfus is a clever, quick witted and strategic thinker, and his memory for facts and detail is extremely impressive.’
Key clients
- Deliveroo
- Renault SA (Diesel)
- CNP Assurances
- Mr. Jean-François EAP (SKY ECC)
- Milleis Banque
- TotalEnergies
- Mr. Patokh Chodiev
- SNCF Réseau
- Mr. Laurent Marcadier
- Groupe NEO (Sericom)
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Practice head
Antonin Lévy
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Quentin Dreyfus