Vey & Associés Firm is renowned not only for its legal expertise, but also for its courtroom instincts and attention to pleadings. In fact, several of the firm’s lawyers have won prestigious prizes in eloquence competitions, and they teach at leading institutions in France and abroad.
We appear before all courts (magistrates’ courts, assize courts) in France and French overseas departments and territories, French-speaking jurisdictions, etc.).
Since the creation of the French National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF), the firm has acquired a new level of expertise, by strengthening the number and quality of its team, to cope with these large-scale proceedings and support major groups faced with this type of investigation. We have more than thirty active procedures in this field.
We act in complex cases involving tax fraud, corruption, misappropriation of corporate assets, money laundering, insider trading, price manipulation and other stock market offenses or misconduct.
We implement a tailor-made defense strategy, based on technical analysis of the case and in-depth knowledge of international legal and regulatory systems, to assist our clients – executives, companies, financial institutions – at every stage, from initial investigation to trial.
Our practice combines high technical standards, a fast response time and a cross-functional approach to economic and reputational issues.
Our dedicated team combines solid experience in criminal law with in-depth knowledge of financial market mechanisms, developing tailor-made strategies for each case.
Our multi-disciplinary team assists our customers in achieving compliance and provides them with a tailored communication service.
The firm also offers its clients expertise in defending against defamation, insult, violation of presumption of innocence and invasion of privacy. The firm is thus able to take urgent action to stop damage to reputation, manage rights of reply and respond to requests for online dereferencing.
Vey & Associés is recognised for its expertise in sports and media law, and assists federations, clubs, professional sportsmen and women and media players with their contracts, image, sponsorship and asset management.
It regularly appears before disciplinary commissions, leagues, federations and specialized courts (Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne).
Our team provides both advisory and litigation services, developing tailor-made strategies for challenging restrictive measures, defending our clients’ interests before national and European courts, and anticipating the risks associated with regulatory compliance and managing sanctions issues.
We can mobilize resources adapted to each situation, and to organize and coordinate ad hoc teams for sensitive cases requiring a global, multidisciplinary approach.
The Vey & Associés firm’s mastery of all aspects of international criminal law enables it to intervene effectively in the execution of requests for international mutual assistance, extradition procedures or European arrest warrants, as well as in transnational and multi-jurisdictional proceedings.
Vey & Associés Firm has developed a thorough knowledge of Interpol’s operating rules, enabling us to intervene effectively, particularly with individuals subject to a red notice.
Vey & Associés can intervene preventively when there is an imminent risk of a notice being distributed, or a posteriori, before the Control Commission and in dealing with professionals in the issuing countries to request its withdrawal.
Vey & Associés appears before the regulatory authorities and the ordinary courts in individual disputes between patients and practitioners, notably concerning medical errors, breaches of information obligations or therapeutic hazards.
Vey & Associés takes part in class actions concerning defective health products, vaccines, environmental pollution or health scandals.
Vey & Associés regularly assists its clients, who are often exposed in the media, in proceedings concerning family disputes (inheritance, succession, divorce, etc.).