DÉFENSE PÉNALE
ET CONTENTIEUX

CRIMINAL DEFENCE
AND LITIGATION

The PRACTICE

MARSIGNY GOSSET AVOCATS is an independent practice which is fully dedicated to criminal law. It provides assistance to both French and international clients – natural or legal persons, States and institutions – in the face of all criminal jurisdictions in France, as well as in internal investigations.

It also supports its clients in complex international proceedings, involving the main foreign and international penal and regulatory entities, including (in particular) Interpol.

The practice has a national and international reputation, and has distinguished itself for its ability to handle the biggest criminal proceedings characterised by complex legal issues, which are heavily publicised and / or have important stakes.

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EXPERTISE

MARSIGNY GOSSET AVOCATS defends, advises and assists both French and international clients – natural or legal persons, leaders, States and institutions – in terms of both criminal risk prevention and in litigation or internal investigations.

Capable of integrating current criminal issues into the most complex kinds of legal situations, the practice offers tailored strategic support to its clients and their consultants. It commits to fighting alongside them, offering active and personalised criminal defence.

With its specific expertise in criminal business law, its ability to anticipate and its mastery of procedures when the personal, financial, political and / or media stakes are high, MARSIGNY GOSSET AVOCATS is a criminal practice whose actions and standards of excellence are today known internationally.

Criminal law as it applies to the stock market and corporations, corruption, collusion, favouritism, bribery, embezzlement of public funds and other breaches of probity, French or international procedures for freezing of assets, abuse of company property, forgery and use of forgeries, money laundering, bankruptcy, false balance sheets, scams, deceptive commercial practices
Criminal tax law: tax fraud, money laundering as part of tax fraud
Criminal proceedings following major catastrophes: air, railway and industrial accidents
International criminal law: proceedings for extradition and freezing of assets
Criminal law – labour: workplace accidents and violation of regulations governing hygiene and security, hidden work
Criminal consumer law: deception about substantive qualities, false advertising
Criminal law – environment and urban planning
Criminal law – health
Criminal law – new technology and cybercrime

CRIMINAL LAW – BUSINESS

Offences against the person: violence, homicide, rape
Offences against property: theft, fraud, abuse of trust, abuse of vulnerability

CRIMINAL LAW – GENERAL AND SPECIFIC

Slander, defamation
Incitement to commit crimes / offences, incitement to discrimination
Protection of private life

LAW OF THE PRESS AND CIVIL RIGHTS

DROIT DE LA PRESSE ET DES LIBERTÉS PUBLIQUES

Injure, diffamation
Provocation aux crimes et aux délits, provocation à la discrimination
Protection de la vie privée

DROIT PÉNAL GÉNÉRAL ET SPÉCIAL

Atteintes aux personnes : violences, homicides, viols
Atteintes aux biens : vol, escroquerie, abus de confiance, abus de faiblesse

DROIT PÉNAL DES AFFAIRES

Droit pénal boursier et des sociétés : corruption, prise illégale d’intérêt, favoritisme, trafic d’influence, détournement de fonds publics et autres atteintes à la probité, procédures françaises ou internationales de saisies de gel d’avoirs, abus de biens sociaux, faux et usages, blanchiment, banqueroute, faux bilans, escroqueries, pratiques commerciales trompeuses
Droit pénal fiscal : fraude fiscale, blanchiment de fraude fiscale
Poursuites pénales à la suite de grandes catastrophes : accidents aériens, ferroviaires et industriels
Droit pénal international : procédures d’extradition et gels d’avoirs
Droit pénal du travail : accident du travail et violation de la réglementation en matière d’hygiène et de sécurité, travail dissimulé
Droit pénal de la consommation : tromperie sur les qualités substantielles, publicité mensongère
Droit pénal de l’environnement et de l’urbanisme
Droit pénal de la santé
Droit pénal des nouvelles technologies et cybercriminalité

THE TEAM

The MARSIGNY GOSSET AVOCATS practice offers its clients the support of a team of ten experienced lawyers who are fully dedicated to criminal defence.

The team is tightly knit, available and responsive. It offers close support to clients and partners with regard to their needs and interests, making available analytic capabilities and expertise in judicial practices gained over 25 years, in order to provide a tailor-made active criminal defence.

The team is a highly senior one, and it conducts the biggest criminal proceedings which involve complex legal issues which are heavily publicised and / or have much at stake. They are accustomed to working in defence teams, and are involved in all the specific areas of criminal law.

PARTNERS

Emmanuel MARSIGNY

A member of the Paris Bar since 1995, and a member of the International Bar Association, Emmanuel Marsigny is an internationally known defence specialist.

A former partner of the practice METZNER ASSOCIES, which he co-founded in 1998, Emmanuel Marsigny created his own firm, MARSIGNY AVOCATS, in October 2013.

Over a period of 25 years, Emmanuel Marsigny has been involved in the majority of major criminal cases, including the Furiani stadium drama, the ELF case, the fictitious jobs of the city of Paris, Angolagate, and the Concorde crash, as well as the case of ill-gotten property, the sale of the Compiègne racecourse, the Brétigny sur Orge railway disaster, the Madoff case, the Balkany case, the disappearance of the President of Interpol….

A seasoned expert of cases which are sensitive and / or which have received media attention, Emmanuel Marsigny regularly pleads before ordinary courts (Assize courts, correctional courts and appeals courts) and specialist courts, and even independent administrative authorities.

He speaks French, English and Spanish.

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Cyril GOSSET

Cyril Gosset has been a lawyer with the Paris Bar since 1998. He holds a certificate of specialisation in criminal law, and is today known as a criminal defence specialist.

Cyril Gosset began his professional activity in the business practice CHAIN LACGER and Partners. Since 1999, he has collaborated with Olivier Metzner, whose practice (which has an international reputation) specialised in business criminal law. In 2005, he created his own practice in the centre of Paris while developing his expertise in the prevention of criminal risk and in the provision of assistance to individuals and companies facing criminal proceedings. In January 2018, with a wealth of twenty years of experience as a specialist in criminal law, he joined the practice MARSIGNY AVOCATS. The practice MARSIGNY GOSSET AVOCATS originated in January 2019.

During recent years, Cyril Gosset has been involved in the Wagram Circle case, the Médiator affair, one of the Madoff cases, the alleged embezzlement activity of the Eurodisney company committee, the Brétigny derailment, the Aristophil scandal, the Rio Paris crash, the “Balkany” case and even the Bataclan attacks.

Cyril Gosset is a graduate of the Toulouse Business School. He is a member of the Criminal Lawyers Association and has served as a senior counsel in the permanent legal assistance organised by the Bar of Paris.

He speaks French and English.

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Louis GUESDON

Registered with the Paris Bar since 2010, for nearly ten years Louis Guesdon has developed a practice which specialises in criminal law; business-related criminal law in particular.

A graduate of HEC and the University of Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne in business law, and trained in mergers / acquisitions with major lawfirms, Louis Guesdon chose to practice criminal defence, and began his professional activity in 2010, as a partner at the METZNER ASSOCIES practice, alongside Emmanuel Marsigny.

After five years of collaboration, Louis Guesdon became a partner at MARSIGNY AVOCATS prior to the merger with GOSSET AVOCATS, from which the practice MARSIGNY GOSSET AVOCATS originated.

In recent years, Louis Guesdon has worked in some of the most important criminal cases of the period: the “ill-gotten goods” affair, one of the “Madoff” affairs, the “Balkany” affair, and even the ENI-SAIPEM/SONATRACH affair, the disappearance of the President of Interpol, among others.

Louis Guesdon acts in all areas of criminal defence law; in particular, business criminal law: corruption and other breaches of probity, tax criminal law, money laundering, corporate criminal law, labour-related criminal law… he also deals with transnational cases which combine several criminal proceedings.

He speaks French, English and Italian.

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François ESCLATINE

Member of the Paris Bar since 1999, François Esclatine is a recognized specialist in criminal business law, and is listed as such in numerous national and international rankings.

François Esclatine began his professional career with Olivier Metzner, which he left to join Veil Jourde, where he became a partner in 2010, in charge of criminal and regulatory litigation, notably before the Autorité des Marchés Financiers.

In recent years, he has been involved in a number of complex criminal cases, including the Concorde crash, Oil For Food, the financial aspects of the Karachi attack, the Elysée polls and the France Telecom suicides.

He speaks French and English.

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ASSOCIATES

Julie WEBER

A lawyer with the Paris bar since 2016, Julie Weber has a university education in criminal law and criminal sciences.

As part of her professional training, Julie WEBER has done an internship at the Interregional Directorate of Prison Services.

She has also provided tutoring in private law in the faculty of law, political sciences and management at Strasbourg.

She joined the practice MARSIGNY AVOCATS in 2016 and, in this context, has handled cases in business criminal law (criminal law related to the stock market and financial criminal law, tax criminal law, international criminal law, extradition) and general criminal law (offences against property, offences against persons).

Julie Weber is a graduate of the Certificate in English law obtained at the University of Birmingham.

Julie Weber speaks French and English.

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Wanda BELLAICHE-ELLENA

Admitted to the Paris (2018) and New York (2015) Bars, Wanda Bellaiche-Ellena has an academic background in business law.

Having completed her studies in France, Scotland as well as in the United States, she graduated from the University of Cergy-Pontoise (Master II DJCE, 2013) and Vermont Law School (LLM in American Legal Studies, 2014).

After being sworn in, she joined a law firm specialized in litigation and criminal business law before joining MARSIGNY GOSSET in 2019.

In this context, she deals with cases involving various aspects of criminal law.

Wanda Bellaiche-Ellena speaks French, English and Italian.

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Guilhem LE GARS

A lawyer with the Paris Bar since 2021, Guilhem LE GARS joined the firm as soon as he was sworn in, after having completed more than a year's internship.

He is graduated of the Magistere degree in Law and Economic Activities and holds a Master in Business Law from the University of Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne.
During his professional training, he worked for a banking institution in London and for the law firm Kiejman & Marembert.
He is also a lecturer at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne.

Guilhem Le Gars speaks French and English.

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Hugo LEMOINE

Admitted to the Paris Bar in 2022, Hugo Lemoine has a university degree in private law and criminal sciences as well as in maritime law.

During his professional training, he practiced law by doing internships with the law firms VIGO and SCHAPIRA ASSOCIÉS, specialized in general criminal law and business criminal law. He also assisted, for six months, the investigating judges of the financial division of the Paris judicial court.

He joined MARSIGNY GOSSET AVOCATS practice in September 2022 and, in this context, is involved in cases relating to various aspects of criminal law.

Hugo Lemoine speaks French and English.

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Clara BAYOL

Admitted to the Paris Bar in 2023, Clara Bayol has a university degree in general criminal law, business criminal law and compliance.

During her professional training, she has done an internship at AUGUST DEBOUZY and HAÏK & ASSOCIÉS. She also worked as an intern at the economic and financial division of the Nanterre public prosecutor's office and at the French Anti-Corruption Agency.

She joined MARSIGNY GOSSET AVOCATS in December 2023 and, in this context, handles cases in general criminal law and business criminal law.

Clara Bayol speaks French and English.

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Joséphine de SONNEVILLE

Admitted to the Paris Bar since 2014, Joséphine de Sonneville studied criminal law and criminal sciences in Kingston University London and graduated in penology from the University of Jean Moulin Lyon III.

After several years of experience in law firms specialized in business criminal law, she joined the MARSIGNY GOSSET AVOCATS practice in 2022.

In this context, she deals with cases involving various aspects of criminal law, and more specifically business criminal law cases.

Joséphine de Sonneville speaks French and English.

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ACTUALITÉS ET PUBLICATIONS

La illegittimità costituzionale della videoconferenza obbligatoria in materia di custodia cautelare nel procedimento penale francese.

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L. Guesdon, L’inconstitutionnalité du recours forcé à la visioconférence dans le contentieux de la détention provisoire dans la procédure pénale française, Giurisprudenza Penale Web, 2020, 6

Coronavirus : MARSIGNY GOSSET Avocats reste à votre disposition

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A la suite des annonces gouvernementales pour prévenir la propagation du coronavirus, le Cabinet MARSIGNY GOSSET Avocats a pris toutes les dispositions pour assurer efficacement la continuité de ses services et la défense de ses clients.

Vous pouvez continuer à joindre le cabinet au numéro habituel : +33 1 53 71 20 00.

Il vous est demandé de privilégier les courriels.

Brefs propos sur l’Ordonnance du 25 mars 2020

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En raison de la propagation du virus Covid 19, le Parlement a voté, le 23 mars 2020, la loi d’urgence sanitaire.

En application de cette loi d’exception, 25 ordonnances ont été prises.

L’une d’entre elles concerne le droit pénal et la procédure pénale.

Son application est limitée dans le temps : un mois à compter de la date de la cessation de l’état d’urgence sanitaire, soit à ce jour, le 25 juin 2020.

Pour votre information, les principales dispositions sont les suivantes:

The PRACTICE

EXPERTISE

CRIMINAL LAW – BUSINESS

CRIMINAL LAW – GENERAL AND SPECIFIC

LAW OF THE PRESS AND CIVIL RIGHTS

DROIT DE LA PRESSE ET DES LIBERTÉS PUBLIQUES

DROIT PÉNAL GÉNÉRAL ET SPÉCIAL

DROIT PÉNAL DES AFFAIRES

PARTNERS

ASSOCIATES

Julie WEBER

Wanda BELLAICHE-ELLENA

Guilhem LE GARS

Hugo LEMOINE

Clara BAYOL

Joséphine de SONNEVILLE

ACTUALITÉS ET PUBLICATIONS

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