White-collar criminal law boutique Cabinet Maisonneuve manages a high number of headline cases, defending individuals and companies, including former or incumbent high-level civil-servants and political figures and executives, in cases regularly involving the PNF and concerning fraud corruption, doping and embezzlement accusations. The team also deals with high-stakes criminal employment issues, notably representing senior executives and companies in moral harassment cases, or defending a digital platform accused of concealed work. The practice includes the highly regarded Patrick Maisonneuve, Antoine Maisonneuve, Bérénice de Warren and Rémi Lorrain.
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- ‘The team is dynamic, very efficient, and friendly.’
- ‘A team totally focused on the client's interests, looking for the best strategy to arrive at the best solution for them.’
- ‘Maisonneuve is a firm full of talent and ingenuity.’
- ‘A tight team, very available.’
- ‘Patrick and Antoine Maisonneuve particularly stand out due to their experience in the legal world. They demonstrate great availability and responsiveness to various developments in procedures. Sensitive files are managed with discretion and great professionalism.’
- ‘Antoine Maisonneuve is a brilliant lawyer, with remarkable technical and personal qualities. He builds and leads a team of very high quality professionals.’
- ‘Rémi Lorrain is a strategist in criminal business law and a virtuoso in criminal procedure. His qualities are numerous: great listening skills, pragmatism, eloquence, humility, technical skills and common sense. He is the confidant of many CAC40 company directors and is one of the rare criminal lawyers to be able to use criminal law during stock market battles and during company mergers.’
- ‘The team has excellent knowledge of criminal procedure and its various actors, which is a major asset for the defense of our interests. The approach adopted in establishing the defense strategy is innovative, particularly through the organization of seminars to prepare for criminal hearings based in particular on thematic fact sheets, scenarios, etc.’
Key clients
- Guy Alves
- Sébastien de Montessus
- Laurent Simonin
- Jacques Moulin
- Paris-Saint Germain Football Club
- European Parliament
- Bernard Squarcini
- Université de Paris
- Joelle Ceccaldi
- Jean Pierre de Vincenzi
- Pierre Sardet
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Patrick Maisonneuve, Antoine Maisonneuve, Bérénice de Warren, Remi Lorrain