Expertise

TEMIME assists its clients in mana­ging cri­mi­nal, dis­ci­pli­na­ry, and liti­ga­tion risks at eve­ry stage, from anti­ci­pa­ting and pre­ven­ting such risks to defen­ding clients before the courts. Our approach is based on pro­ven expe­rience in sen­si­tive cases with signi­fi­cant media expo­sure, as well as a deep unders­tan­ding of the human, eco­no­mic, and repu­ta­tio­nal issues they involve. The firm is active in the fol­lo­wing types of cases :

 

General criminal law

Defen­ding clients in all pro­cee­dings rela­ting to crimes and offenses.

White-collar crime

Defen­ding and assis­ting indi­vi­duals and legal enti­ties in com­plex cases, par­ti­cu­lar­ly invol­ving fraud, misuse of cor­po­rate assets, breach of trust, money laun­de­ring, cor­rup­tion, influence pedd­ling, offences rela­ted to conflicts of inter­est and public pro­cu­re­ment, tax fraud, coun­ter­fei­ting, cyber­crime, stock mar­ket offenses, or decep­tive com­mer­cial practices.

Criminal aspects of healthcare law

Inter­ve­ning in public health cases, consu­mer fraud mat­ters, as well as pro­cee­dings rela­ting to mans­laugh­ter and battery.

Criminal aspects of employment law

Sup­por­ting and defen­ding clients in cases invol­ving harass­ment, dis­cri­mi­na­tion, unde­cla­red work, ille­gal labor len­ding, work­place acci­dents, or obs­truc­tion of employee repre­sen­ta­tive bodies.

Internal investigations in public and private organizations

Conduc­ting inter­nal inves­ti­ga­tions, par­ti­cu­lar­ly regar­ding employ­ment law issues or fraud and cor­rup­tion mat­ters. In these cases, the firm pays par­ti­cu­lar­ly atten­tion to due pro­cess and com­pliance with the prin­ciples of impar­tia­li­ty and prompt­ness. The firm also assists indi­vi­duals invol­ved in these pro­ce­dures at eve­ry stage, whe­ther they are the repor­ting par­ty or the tar­get of the report.

Commercial litigation

Repre­sen­ting clients before civil and com­mer­cial courts, as well as before admi­nis­tra­tive and regu­la­to­ry autho­ri­ties, inclu­ding the Finan­cial Mar­kets Autho­ri­ty (AMF) and the Com­pe­ti­tion Authority.

Compliance

Advi­sing com­pa­nies and ins­ti­tu­tions on mea­sures to prevent cri­mi­nal and regu­la­to­ry risks, asses­sing and streng­the­ning their com­pliance sys­tems, conduc­ting risk-map­ping exer­cises, and respon­ding to controls car­ried out by regu­la­to­ry autho­ri­ties, par­ti­cu­lar­ly the French Anti-Cor­rup­tion Agency.

Environmental criminal law

Defen­ding clients in pro­cee­dings rela­ting to envi­ron­men­tal harm, inclu­ding pol­lu­tion, waste mana­ge­ment, endan­germent of eco­sys­tems, non-com­pliance with envi­ron­men­tal and health regu­la­tions, as well as rela­ted cri­mi­nal and admi­nis­tra­tive litigation.

Asset Seizure and Confiscation Law

Assis­ting indi­vi­duals and com­pa­nies in cri­mi­nal sei­zure and confis­ca­tion pro­cee­dings at all stages of the pro­cess, inclu­ding chal­lenges before com­petent courts and the mana­ge­ment of resul­ting asset-rela­ted issues.

Enforcement of Sentences

Repre­sen­ting indi­vi­duals before all courts res­pon­sible for the enfor­ce­ment of sen­tences, in both open and cus­to­dial settings.

Cybercrime

Sup­por­ting clients in cases invol­ving offenses rela­ted to infor­ma­tion and com­mu­ni­ca­tion tech­no­lo­gies, inclu­ding attacks on auto­ma­ted data pro­ces­sing sys­tems, com­pu­ter fraud, online scams, iden­ti­ty theft, cyber harass­ment, or data breaches.

Other Litigation

Repre­sen­ting clients in press law mat­ters (defa­ma­tion, insult, inva­sion of pri­va­cy), dis­ci­pli­na­ry and pro­fes­sio­nal pro­cee­dings, as well as other dis­putes invol­ving signi­fi­cant per­so­nal or finan­cial stakes, par­ti­cu­lar­ly in inhe­ri­tance law.

The firm also defends its clients facing jus­tice abroad.

TEMIME defends its clients invol­ved in legal pro­cee­dings abroad or sus­pec­ted of having com­mit­ted a cri­mi­nal offence abroad. It has deve­lo­ped a series of part­ner­ships with the finest inde­pendent lawyers spe­cia­li­sed in cri­mi­nal defence in Europe, the Uni­ted States and Africa.
TEMIME also works with his clients facing liti­ga­tion abroad at the occa­sion of their com­mer­cial and finan­cial activities.

TEMIME has deve­lo­ped part­ner­ships with the finest inde­pendent lawyers spe­cia­li­sed in cri­mi­nal defence in Europe, in the Uni­ted-States and in Africa.

In March 2022, TEMIME ope­ned a new desk in Luxem­bourg.