CRIMINAL DEFENCE
AND LITIGATION
THE FIRM
Founded on solid expertise and guided by shared values among its partners, GOSSET LASEK ESCLATINE AVOCATS is an independent law firm exclusively dedicated to criminal law and criminal defense.
Renowned for its excellence, the firm is both nationally and internationally recognized for its proficiency in handling high-profile criminal cases and managing complex proceedings that involve significant legal, economic, and media challenges.
With proven experience in case management, strategic expertise, a multidisciplinary approach, as well as rigor, discretion, and commitment, the firm stands as a trusted reference capable of addressing the most intricate litigation challenges.
Comprising a team of approximately ten lawyers, GOSSET LASEK ESCLATINE AVOCATS offers bespoke defense services. Combining the individual expertise of its partners with a collaborative approach, each case is meticulously analyzed and benefits from a tailored strategy to effectively address the legal issues at stake.
EXPERTISE
Capable of integrating current criminal law issues into the analysis of the most complex legal situations, GOSSET LASEK ESCLATINE AVOCATS provides assistance to national and international clients – individuals, orporations, business leaders, states, and institutions – in the prevention of criminal risk, the implementation of defense strategies, and the management of litigation.
Recognized as a key player in criminal investigations and regulatory criminal litigation (police custody, searches, requests for international legal assistance, judicial investigations), the firm handles cases before all criminal courts in France as well as in the context of internal and international investigations.
GOSSET LASEK ESCLATINE AVOCATS has also developed specific expertise in cross-border criminal law, international law, and securities law before the AMF (“Autorité des Marchés Financiers”).
Combining excellence, experience, and humanity, the firm offers top-tier strategic support and tailored defense.
WHITE COLLAR CRIME
- Corporate criminal law: corruption, illegal interest-taking, favoritism, influence- peddling, misappropriation of public funds and other breaches of probity, French or international proceedings.
- Stock market law: market abuse
- Criminal tax law: tax fraud, tax fraud laundering
- Criminal prosecutions following major disasters: air, rail and industrial accidents
- International criminal law: extradition procedures and asset freezing
- Criminal labor law: industrial accidents and violations of health and safety regulations, illegalemployment
- Criminal consumer law: misleading information on substantial qualities, misleading advertising
- Environmental and urban planning criminal law
- Health criminal law
- Criminal law relating to new technologies and cybercrime
CRIMINAL LAW
- Personal injury: violence, homicide, rape
- Offenses against property: theft, fraud, breach of trust, abuse of weakness
PRESS LAW AND CIVIL LIBERTIES
- Libel, slander
- Provocation to crimes and offences, provocation to discrimination
- Protection of privacy
THE TEAM
The firm GOSSET LASEK ESCLATINE AVOCATS provides its clients with the strength of a team of approximately ten lawyers, fully dedicated to criminal defense.
Unified, accessible, responsive, and independent, the team supports its clients and partners closely, addressing their needs and safeguarding their interests. Leveraging over 25 years of expertise in judicial practices and analytical skills, the firm delivers tailored, proactive criminal defense strategies.
With significant seniority and extensive experience working in defense groups, including proceedings conducted in English, the team is able to handle high-profile cases.
In recent years, GOSSET LASEK ESCLATINE AVOCATS has been involved in prominent matters such as the Cercle Wagram case, the Mediator scandal, a case linked to Madoff, alleged misappropriation of Eurodisney Works Council funds, the Aristophil scandal, the Rio-Paris flight crash, the Balkany case, Covéa/Scor litigation, the collapse on Rue d’Aubagne, the Concorde crash, the Oil for Food program, the financial aspect of the Karachi bombing, the Libyan financing of the 2008 presidential campaign, Élysée opinion poll controversies, and France Telecom.
