[ Criminal law ]

Our team of lawyers, experts in criminal defence, approaches disputes arising in this field from a unique perspective, not limiting themselves in any way to a strictly criminal approach, but rather adopting a comprehensive approach suited to particularly complex cases (high-stakes disputes) where we provide legal assistance. The firm’s added value lies in addressing the dispute through a four-pillar approach:

• From a substantive point of view, our lawyers are highly specialised in offences characterised by their connection to other branches of law (open-ended criminal provisions, such as offences against the Treasury, corporate offences, offences committed by civil servants and public employees or within the Administration, and environmental offences)
• From a strictly procedural perspective, we pay particular attention to the right to a defence under Article 24 of the Constitution, analysing the specific features and particularities of the type of proceedings in which we are involved.
• From a corporate defence perspective, our team rigorously analyses the criminal proceedings against the legal entity, its procedural standing within those proceedings, and its criminal liability for acts committed by its directors, employees, or third parties associated with it.
• From a holistic approach, recognising that criminal proceedings and the handling of the offence are merely one aspect of the necessary defence of the client, with implications in other judicial spheres (civil, commercial and contentious-administrative), leading, in most cases, to the initiation of related actions in other jurisdictions to ensure the adequate protection of the client’s interests.

Within this criminal defence, our experience includes:

• Advice prior to the commencement of proceedings and the management of criminal proceedings, particularly regarding the criminal liability of legal persons.
• Comprehensive advice: crime prevention.
• Representation during the pre-trial investigation phase, particularly in cases before the National High Court and the European Delegated Prosecutor’s Office.
• Representation in relation to precautionary measures, with particular reference to the measures under Article 81 of the General Tax Law concerning tax offences.
• Representation at oral hearings.
• Appeals, cassation and constitutional appeals.
• Representation during the enforcement phase.
• Corporate offences.
• Unfair administration and misappropriation, concealment of assets, and criminal insolvency.
• Price manipulation in public tenders and auctions.
• Offences against the Treasury, in their various forms.
• Subsidy fraud, with particular reference to fraud affecting the financial interests of the European Union.
• Fraud in the private sector.
• Money laundering.
• Environmental offences.
• Crimes against consumers.
• Offences against workers’ rights.
• Crimes against the public administration, perverting the course of justice, bribery, embezzlement, influence peddling.