Public criminal law

The Public Corporate law team has developed expertise in handling disciplinary and criminal cases concerning public procurement, recognised by the major public procurement actors.

The team’s lawyers regularly assist within the scope of statutory protection of civil servants, particularly in criminal cases concerning public procurement.

The firm works, upstream, by getting involved in criminal risk audits, drafting best practice guides, providing risk assessment advice either administrative or criminal, that are connected to the conclusion of public procurement contracts.

This practice and expertise places the team in a position of strength when assessing criminal risk in their evaluations and recommendations to private operators (within the scope, for example, of their commercial relations with public entities), susceptible of being seen as corrupted behaviour but also in terms of accusations of complicity or favouritism or vested interest.