The agency has added a distinguished French white-collar disputes specialist and his workforce to its providing.
Paul Hastings has snapped up 12 white-collar defence legal professionals, following its acquisition of Paris litigation and investigations boutique Antonin Lévy & Associés, with the agency confirming the arrival of lead associate Antonin Lévy and his workforce as we speak (26 June).
Lévy has joined Paul Hastings together with companions Ophélia Claude and Joris Monin de Flaugergues and 9 associates, with the workforce is about to be integrated into the agency’s world platform by 1 September this 12 months. The incoming legal professionals concentrate on litigation, white-collar crime, compliance, enterprise and human rights, and inside investigations, and in addition specialize in investigations conducts by multilateral growth banks, in addition to excessive profile ESG litigation.
The three white-collar specialist companions symbolize firms, administrators and workers in vital white-collar crime and ESG litigation, with Lévy dealing with disputes for household-name purchasers together with Google, Apple, Fb, TotalEnergies, Continental Airways, Renault and Bouygues. He represented TotalEnergies in a case introduced by local weather and human rights activists in 2020 who had been protesting the corporate’s East African Crude Oil Pipeline Undertaking (EACOP) in Tanzania and Uganda. Lévy additionally represented BTA Financial institution in its lawsuit in opposition to former Kazakh vitality minister Mukhtar Ablyazov, who allegedly stole USD 6 billion from the financial institution throughout his tenure as chairman from 2005-2009.
Lévy has spent tenures at Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier, the now-defunct agency Metzner Associés, and at Hogan Lovells, the place he labored as head of the Paris investigations, white-collar and fraud workforce. He based his boutique in 2019.
Claude beforehand labored at Metzner Associés and Allen & Overy earlier than transferring to Hogan Lovells, the place she was on Lévy’s workforce in Paris together with Monin de Flaugergues, who joined the agency from Gibson Dunn & Crutcher. The 2 companions joined Lévy at his boutique in 2019.
Paul Hastings chair Frank Lopez lauded the arrival of Lévy and his colleagues in an announcement: “We imagine Antonin is the main investigations and white-collar lawyer in France. Antonin and his workforce symbolize lots of our current purchasers so their follow is instantly synergistic with our robust litigation platform and people they don’t symbolize may even quickly profit from their distinctive expertise.” He continued: “Their arrival demonstrates our continued funding in Paris and dedication to constructing our litigation follow to serve the complicated wants of our blue-chip purchasers worldwide.”
Lévy added: “Paul Hastings has a number one white-collar follow globally, with which I’ve labored for a few years, notably Bob Luskin and his workforce.” He highlighted that within the authorized atmosphere of cross-border disputes and “growing cooperation between prosecuting authorities”, becoming a member of Paul Hastings “offers vital alternatives for our purchasers, lots of which have current relationships with the agency”. Lévy famous his purpose was for the agency to “turn out to be the foremost participant in complicated transnational litigation in Europe and past”.
Paul Hastings supercharged its disputes capabilities with main hires within the UK and the US in March this 12 months.
