Specialising in white-collar criminal law, ABPA - Apelbaum Bendavid Poincloux Associés fields a sizeable team that is able to handle a range of cases, representing companies, senior executives or other individuals. The team is regularly entrusted to deal with tax fraud, embezzlement, money laundering and corruption accusations including PNF-led investigations. It also handles a number of sensitive criminal employment, accident, extradition and politically related cases. The practice is headed by founding partners David Apelbaum, Michaël Bendavid and Margaux Durand-Poincloux.

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Testimonials

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‘This team is exceptional due to the remarkable level of its partners (David Apelbaum, Margaux Durand Poincloux, Michael Bendavid). They all have remarkable experience which allows them to handle particularly sophisticated files with efficiency and speed. The team is very dynamic and therefore innovative, doing everything possible to provide the best possible service to its customer.’
‘The team is made up of excellent lawyers specializing in criminal law, young and particularly dynamic. They demonstrate great rigor and perfect integrity and are certainly among the very best of their generation.’
‘David Apelbaum is an exceptional lawyer who is very technically comfortable. Experienced, hardworking and dynamic. He is also perfectly collaborative, which allows subtle strategies to be developed in a partnership manner. Margaux Durand Poincloux and Michaël Bendavid have the same qualities (experience, dynamism, high legal technicality).’
‘Michaël Bendavid is an excellent lawyer, responsive and available. First of all, he has excellent technical mastery and a perfect knowledge of criminal procedure which he knows how to use in the interests of his clients. He also has very good relationships with magistrates and a perfect analysis of the way they reason and how they can be convinced. He also has a global vision of his files and and an ability to recommend long-term strategies. He challenges clients to bring out additional elements and prepare them perfectly in advance of legal deadlines. Finally, he has a great tactical sense of the hearing and he is a superb litigator. ’
‘A dynamic and responsive team, very attentive and with imaginative solutions and out of the box thinking.’
‘They have a very hands on and realistic approach, committed to reach the best possible result for their clients, based on honest advice as to what to expect. ’
‘David Apelbaum is full of energy, and always extremely precise in his legal analysis. Margaux Poincloux is particularly rigorous, leaves nothing to chance and appears to be one of the most brilliant criminal lawyers of her generation. ’
‘Margaux Durand Poincloux demonstrates remarkable personal and professional qualities both in the investigation of the case and in the conduct of the hearing. Her qualities are empathy and extraordinary eloquence, punctuated by a relevant sense of humor.’

Key clients

AdhexPharma group
Ms Sonia Arrouas
Mr Nadav Bensoussan
Mr Olivier Carvin
Church of Scientology
Mr Richard Desumeur
Filiassur
French National Bar Council
Hedios Patrimoine
Institution Jeanne d’Arc de Montrouge
Mr Jean-Luc Lahaye
Mr Stéphane Manigold
Marval group Club Pierre Charron
Mr Kabirou Mbodje
Mersen
National Syndicate of Medical Junior Practicioners
Otis Elevator Company
PM SA
Pratt & Whitney
Mr Pierre Reynaud
Mr François-Xavier Susini
Mr Sergeï Pugachev
UDS Can Online
Ugitech
West Atlantic

Work highlights

Represented a hotel and real estate businessman, accused of alleged money laundering in collaboration with the Corsican Mafia.
Represented a Russian national, former billionaire and political opponent, in various criminal procedures in France for fraud, extortion and illegal spying, related to attempts at depriving him of his international assets.
Represented an international airline company accused of concealed employment, raising new legal questions about the status of freight airline employees, and obtaining the postponement of a hearing and the ordering of new investigations targeting French Social Security.