Hortense Béthune specializes in business criminal law.
With several years’ experience in leading criminal law firms, she assists French and international clients with criminal proceedings, internal investigations and compliance matters, particularly in the context of anti-corruption measures arising from the Sapin 2 Law.
She advises companies and their executives in all phases of both pre-litigation investigations and litigation before the criminal courts (misuse of corporate assets, corruption, fraud, money laundering, tax fraud, influence peddling, illegal interest-taking, favoritism, insider trading, misrepresentation of accounts, bankruptcy, concealed work, deception, misleading commercial practices, breach of an STAD, etc.).
Hortense is a member of the Association des Avocats Pénalistes (ADAP), the Institut du Droit Pénal Fiscal et Financier (IDPF) and the Club des Femmes Pénalistes.
Skills
Lawyer since : 2016
Bar. : Paris
Language(s) : French - English
Training :
- School of Professional Education of the Paris Court of Appeal (EFB), CAPA , 2015-2016
- Master II Penal Matters Law – Lille Catholic University, 2013
- Master I Forensic Careers and Criminal Sciences – University of Poitiers, 2012
Member of :
- Association des Avocats Pénalistes (ADAP)
- Club des Femmes Pénalistes
- Institut du Droit Pénal Fiscal et Financier (IDPF)
Publications
- Professional secrecy: boom boom on searches and phone tapping! – L’Opinion, 09/21/2021
- Avec la mise en place du Parquet européen, le rôle de l’avocat comme défenseur des libertés individuelles plus que jamais primordial – Option Droit et Affaires, 09/06/2021
- Jeantet Law Firm: “With the Covid-19, criminal offences will be difficult to qualify”
- COVID-19: “the question of employers’ criminal liability is uncertain” (Jeantet)
- The criminal risks incurred by company managers in the context of a business recovery
- “State of health emergency: criminal risks for company managers” – L’Opinion, 04/09/2020
- “Coronavirus infects the economy: additional fiscal remedies needed to sustain growth” – L’Opinion, 04/02/2020
- CORPORATE CRIMINAL LAW
- FINANCIAL AND STOCK MARKET CRIMINAL LAW
- LABOR CRIMINAL LAW
- CRIMINAL TAX LAW
- COMPETITION AND CONSUMER LAW
- ENVIRONMENTAL CRIMINAL LAW
- PRESS LAW AND PROTECTION OF REPUTATION
- CRIMINAL LAW RELATING TO DIGITAL COMPANIES
- ANTI-CORRUPTION AND OTHER BREACHES OF PROBITY
- COMPLIANCE
- CRIMINAL COURTS AND ADMINISTRATIVE AUTHORITIES
- INSTRUCTIONS
- JUDICIAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE INVESTIGATIONS
- INTERNAL INVESTIGATIONS
- MEDIATION
- CRISIS MANAGEMENT
Jeantet takes on the criminal business world with the arrival of Philippe Bouchez El Ghozi
Paris, Thursday September 14, 2023, Jeantet is delighted to announce the arrival of Philippe Bouchez El Ghozi and his team as partners to strengthen the commercial litigation practice, and in particular the criminal business law, compliance and internal investigations practice. With this arrival, Jeantet now has 35 partners and intends to continue its growth. This […]
Professional secrecy: boom boom on searches and phone tapping! – L’Opinion, 09/21/2021
« Current legal systems have become so complex that the legal fiction of “no one is supposed to ignore the law” has become unrealistic » Is this a coincidence or the beginning of a fight that has been announced for many years? An amendment was recently voted unanimously by the deputies in the bill for […]
Paris | CRIMINAL LAW
Avec la mise en place du Parquet européen, le rôle de l’avocat comme défenseur des libertés individuelles plus que jamais primordial – Option Droit et Affaires, 09/06/2021
Au regard du montant annuel des escroqueries aux subventions communautaires, 3 milliards d’euros, et de celui des fraudes à la TVA au sein de l’Union européenne (UE), 50 milliards d’euros, l’entrée en vigueur imminente de l’action du Parquet européen est presque providentielle. Toutefois, si celui-ci marque une étape importante dans la construction d’une UE plus intégrée, les […]
Paris | CRIMINAL LAW
Webinar – State of Health Emergency: Criminal Risks for Business Leaders – 07/09/2020
The partial activity system The obligation of security and protection of employees Offences against the human person The loan guaranteed by the State Bankruptcy Tax fraud and abuse of rights
Paris | TAX | CRIMINAL TAXATION LAW
Company heads, beware of criminal risks during a state of health emergency – l’AGEFI Hebdo, June 2020
Manoeuvring to organise the gradual return of their employees to the workplace, company heads must be vigilant about their criminal liability in this period of health emergency.
Paris
Jeantet Law Firm: “With the Covid-19, criminal offences will be difficult to qualify”
While 25 outbreaks of contamination have been recorded since the start of deconfinement, including two in slaughterhouses, the question of the criminal responsibility of the leaders is again at the forefront. The point with Jacques-Henry de Bourmont and Hortense Béthune, lawyers at the Jeantet law firm.
| CRIMINAL LAW
COVID-19: “the question of employers’ criminal liability is uncertain” (Jeantet)
Several criminal complaints have been filed against employers for contamination of an employee with covid-19 at the workplace. The criminal liability of the employer may be incurred for contamination, but also in other situations. An analysis by Eva Kopelman, counsel in Labour Law, and Hortense Béthune, lawyer in Criminal Law, within the law firm Jeantet.
Paris
The criminal risks incurred by company managers in the context of a business recovery
In the current context of the health crisis linked to Covid-19, the resumption of activity raises many questions as to the criminal liability of company directors.
Paris | CRIMINAL LAW
“State of health emergency: criminal risks for company managers” – L’Opinion, 04/09/2020
Because of the current health crisis linked to covid-19, company managers have to make decisions in a hurry and without being aware of the criminal risks that could result.
Paris | CRIMINAL LAW
Webinar – COVID-19: Government tax measures in Europe – 04/08/2020
Paris | TAX | CRIMINAL TAXATION LAW
“Coronavirus infects the economy: additional fiscal remedies needed to sustain growth” – L’Opinion, 04/02/2020
Advocacy for an improvement of the support system for the self-employed and for the introduction of generalised carry-back.
Paris | TAX