Avi Bitton law firm

Based in Paris 12th, the law firm Avi Bitton was created in 2005. It is made up of 10 lawyers and jurists  and a legal assistant .

We advise and defend more than 3,000 clients , in France and abroad, in particular companies, embassies and consulates, public institutions, professional unions, works councils, associations, families and employees. .

The firm often intervenes in high-profile cases: - Carlos Ghosn case against Renault Nissan (abuse of corporate assets)  - HSBC Falciani case (tax evasion and money laundering)  - Terrorist trials (attack on rue des Rosiers, attacks on Bataclan, Marrakech, ...) - cases of murders and assassinations (crime of Maincy, ...) - cases of rape. 

Avi Bitton has 18 years of practice as a lawyer. He is a Member of the Disciplinary Council of the Paris Bar Association (2013, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022). He was elected, in 2009, and re-elected in 2012, Member of the Conseil de l'Ordre des Avocats (terms of office 2010-1012 and 2013-2015), which is the regulatory and disciplinary authority of the Paris Bar, then he was elected, in 2011, and re-elected, in 2014, Member of the Conseil National des Barreaux (terms of office 2012-2014 and 2015-2017), which is the authority representing the legal profession in France.

Avi Bitton is consulted by the Government (Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Labour, National Assembly, ...) on reforms in labor law and criminal law. He is the author of the book " The trial at the Conseil de Prud'hommes ", published by LGDJ, one of the main legal publishers (2018).  

The firm regularly intervenes in transnational procedures for private clients (expatriate individuals, foreign companies, ...) or institutional clients (embassies, consulates, ...) with implications in particular in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom , in Switzerland, in the European Union (Portugal, Italy, ...), in Russia, in Brazil, in Israel, in Morocco or in Rwanda.   Avi Bitton Avocats is 

recommended:

 - by 

Best Lawyers

 , in 2019, 2020 and 2021 (international ranking after survey of lawyers in the same field);   

- 

 by 

Leaders League (Décideurs magazine – finance and legal strategy),

 since 2013; 

- 

 by 

Legal 500

, in 2015 and 2016 (international ranking after survey of clients): " 

Avi Bitton has a

 very responsive team, capable of providing astute advice and anticipating the opposing defense in sensitive disputes, particularly in criminal law work'. 

The firm is very present alongside the salaried executives of large companies and has a very high success rate in the disputes it handles. The team is also developing its corporate client base. The team includes in its ranks: Avi Bitton, a

 'strategist, combative and passionate about labor law who shows real empathy to help his clients', 

Laetitia Lencione. The cabinet is finally

'a combative recourse for delicate and difficult causes' 

in the criminal justice system with Avi Bitton and Nelson de Oliveira

 . ". Avi Bitton is General Secretary of the Syndicate 

Manifeste des Avocats Collaborateurs

 (MAC), which he founded and chaired in 2011. He is also a member of the 

European Criminal Bar Association

 (ECBA) and the 

European Fraud and Compliance Lawyers

 (EFCL).

We lead training in business , social law and criminal law.

We work in the press , general and specialist, national and international, with the agreement of our clients (Le Monde, L'Express, Nouvel Obs, Canard Enchainé, Mediapart, Le Figaro, Liberation, Charlie Hebdo, The Guardian, etc.) . We are regularly interviewed by television channels (TF1, France 2, France 24, BFM TV, etc.) on legal cases (Nicolas Sarkozy, Dominique Strauss-Khan, Cédric Jubillar, Karim Benzema, Ary Abittan, Benjamin Griveaux cases, etc.). ).

We assist whistleblowers (employees or self-employed, private sector or public service), and we allow them to benefit from our relations with the media, associations and unions.

We collaborate with private search agents called private detectives (search for assets to seize abroad, identification of witnesses, ...), notaries (successions and legacies), experts (judicial experts in writing, scientific experts, medical experts, ...), and bailiffs (seizure of bank accounts, ...).

We work correspondent law firms internationally, particularly in Great Britain (London) , Italy (Milan) , Latvia (Riga) , Ukraine (Kiev)  and Bulgaria (Sofia) , and regional , notably in Lyon , Toulon and Rouen . 

We speak fluent English and  Portuguese .

Based in Paris 12th, the law firm Avi Bitton operates throughout the Paris region, namely in the departments and bars of Paris (75), Seine-et-Marne (77), Yvelines (78), Essonne (91), Hauts-de-Seine (92), Seine-Saint-Denis (93), Val-de-Marne (94) and Val-d'Oise (95).

The firm regularly pleads cases before the industrial tribunal, the commercial court, the judicial court, the criminal court, the assize court and the criminal court of Paris, Créteil, Bobigny, Nanterre, Boulogne, Evry, Longjumeau , Montmorency, Versailles, Meaux and Melun.