French National School for the Judiciary (École nationale de la magistrature), Bordeaux, class of 2000.
Eighteen years in the public prosecutor's office. Judicial Court of Lille — Bordeaux General Prosecutor's Office — Judicial Court of Versailles — French National Financial Prosecutor's Office (Parquet National Financier — PNF) in Paris, the final six years. Corruption, misuse of corporate assets, money laundering of tax fraud, illegal taking of interest. Long judicial investigations, correctional court hearings, criminal chamber petitions.
Resignation in 2018. Admission to the Paris Bar in September of the same year, under number 156234. Solo practice established in 2019 as a single-shareholder SELARL (limited liability professional company).
The move from prosecution to defence rests on one conviction: sound defence requires intimate knowledge of how prosecutions are built. The angles a prosecutor will pursue, the timeline of an indictment, the exhibits an investigating magistrate will look for in priority — none of this is learned at law school. It is learned from the other side of the bench.
The firm now defends, before the courts, what it spent two decades investigating from the prosecution side. White-collar crime first; general criminal law, police custody, free interview and cybercrime second.
Member of the French Association of Criminal Defence Lawyers (AFAP).