Belot Bellescize Avocats covers all areas of criminal law, and more specifically business criminal law, including legal advice, litigation, compliance and internal investigations.

After many years in top-tier law firms acquiring cutting-edge expertise in complex cases, Daphné Belot and Tanneguy de Bellescize co-created Belot Bellescize Avocats, entirely dedicated to criminal law.

Belot Bellescize Avocats advises and assists individuals as well as French and foreign companies and their management, both in criminal risk prevention and litigation.

Belot Bellescize Avocats assists its clients:

• before specialised investigation agencies (French National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (“Parquet National Financier”), National Anti-Fraud Office(“ONAF”, ex-SEJF), Central Office dedicated to the policing of serious financial crimes (“OCLCIFF”), special intelligence services (“Direction générale de la sécurité intérieure”), etc.)

• before all French criminal courts

• before European bodies and institutions (European Public Proscutor, Court of Justice of the European Union, European Anti-Fraud Office)

• before independent public authorities (Financial Market Authority (“Autorité des Marchés Financiers”), French Anti-Doping Agency, High Council of Auditors (“ Haut Conseil du Commissariat aux Comptes” ))

• before independent administrative authorities (High Authority for the transparency of public life (“HATVP”), National Commission on Informatics and Liberty (CNIL), Defender of Rights, etc.)

• before French Anti-Corruption Agency

• before professional disciplinary bodies (Professional Organizations, Disciplinary Committees of Sports Federations).

The firm’s lawyers are fully fluent in English and have a high level of expertise in international criminal proceedings. Their expertise includes transnational proceedings, multi-jurisdictional disputes, mutual legal assistance in criminal matters, extradition and international sanctions.

Belot Bellescize Avocats implements a precise and comprehensive legal analysis in order to provide a technical, secure and creative defence strategy tailored to the specific needs and interests of each cases.