ABPA - Apelbaum Bendavid Poincloux Associés

ABPA works in an international environment. Attorneys are up-to-date with evolving rules of international criminal law, especially of the always-increasing importance of European Union rules – notably with the creation of the European Public Prosecutor Office in 2020.  

 Team and skills 

ABPA’s attorneys speak and work in French, English, Spanish and Italian. We are regularly instructed on: 

•  Cases investigated in France with a strong international aspect, mostly in financial and tax crime matters; 
• Mutual legal assistance procedures conducted by French judicial authorities abroad; 
• Mutual legal assistance procedures conducted by foreign judicial authorities in France; 
• Extradition and European Arrest Warrant procedures. 

 Clients 

Our international clients are foreign companies (European Union, United Kingdom, United States, Singapore) and foreign individuals or French individuals living abroad (European Union, United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland, Russia, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Israel, Syria, China, Thailand).  

While making French criminal procedure understandable to clients from other legal backgrounds and cultures, we endeavor, by all means specific to international criminal lax (safe-conduct, mutual legal assistance, videoconference hearings, European mechanisms of judicial supervision and asset freezing), to establish strategies tailored to particular situations. 

 Network 

ABPA has a network of trusty law firms, specialized in white-collar criminal defense, in most European Union Member States (notably through the European Criminal Bar Association, of which ABPA is a member), as well as in the United Kingdom, the United States and Switzerland.