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Environmental law

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CORAL AVOCATS’ lawyers have an extensive expertise in all areas of environmental law, including industrial environmental law (ICPE, water, waste and extended producer responsibility), biodiversity protection, natural and technological risks, climate change, air pollution, CSR, HSE, sustainable development and duty of care. They also specialize in energy and mining law (wind, solar, geothermal, methanization, lithium, etc.).

For our customers, we have developed expertise in the field of polluted sites and soils, energy saving certificates (CEE), extended producer responsibility in the building sector (PMCB) and packaging, as well as reuse (excavated soil transfer contracts, procedures for removing waste status, etc.).

They have also developed specific know-how by combining the expertise of our partners, at the crossroads of environmental law and public procurement law, town planning law and criminal law. This combined expertise enables them, for example, to assist local authorities in drafting tender documents incorporating environmental performance criteria, or to measure the criminal risk attached to the activities of companies in the industrial sector against the yardstick of environmental regulations.

They help their customers to secure their activities and take into account the related environmental risks, as well as to identify the actions they can take to protect and enhance their economic and environmental value by applying environmental regulations.

They mobilize all their knowledge and skills to support their customers – businesses, representatives of civil society and local authorities – in these areas, both in advisory and litigation capacities.

Finally, they give lectures and speak at numerous conferences in France and abroad, and publish articles in specialized journals and books on various environmental law topics. They also offer training courses for elected representatives and professionals (waste, ICPE, ecological damage, REP PMCB, greenwashing, etc.). These activities contribute to their in-depth knowledge of developments in environmental law, and enable them to keep abreast of the latest legal developments on behalf of their clients.

Public law

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CORAL AVOCATS’ lawyers provide services in all areas of public law.

In the field of public procurement law, they support their customers in defining and negotiating the contractual arrangements best suited to their needs. They also help them manage procurement procedures and resolve any performance issues they may encounter (claims, acceptance, guarantees, etc.). Their expertise covers the award and execution of public and private contracts.

Their support includes issues of property law, and more specifically public domain law, particularly when their public or private clients wish to develop this domain with a view to carrying out an economic or public interest activity.

They are also involved in town planning law, inparticular to assist their customers with projects requiring the issue of town planning authorization(s) (building permits, preliminary declarations, development permits, demolition permits, connection requests, etc.) or with the preparation and evolution of town planning documents (PLU/PLUi, SCoT, etc.).

The regular practice of these three branches of law has led CORAL AVOCATS’ lawyers to develop expertise in construction law (challenging builders’ liability) and insurance law.

The lawyers in the network take an interest in the “life” of a public authority, helping their clients deal with issues of administrative liability (damage caused by public works, failure to exercise administrative police powers, etc.), inter-communal relations and civil service law.

In all these areas, they provide both advisory and litigation services.

Criminal law

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CORAL AVOCATS criminal practice covers every stage of the criminal risk faced by corporate entities and individuals, whether they are a defendant, a victim or simply involved.

The lawyers’ practice extends from the prevention of criminal risk (risk audits, delegation of powers, charter of good conduct, management training), to the management of prosecutions from their inception through to the criminal trial (role-playing in preparation for hearings and trial, elaboration of a defense system).

CORAL AVOCATS’ lawyers have a recognized experience in criminal law, and provide each of their clients with excellent legal support.

They are involved in the following areas:

  • Common criminal law (crimes and misdemeanors against persons and property)
  • White collar crime (fraud, misappropriation of corporate assets, breach of trust, corruption, money laundering, cybercrime, stock market offences)
  • Criminal labor law (undeclared work, industrial accidents, labor lending, harassment, discrimination)
  • Criminal tax law (tax fraud, money laundering)
  • Criminal health law (public health cases, manslaughter and manslaughter)

CORAL AVOCATS is unique in that it combines the experience of criminal and public lawyers, who offer their clients technical expertise in :

  • Environmental criminal law (discharge of harmful substances, pollution of water, air or soil, destruction of habitats of protected animal species)
  • Criminal urban planning law (failure to comply with an order to stop work, continuation of construction following cancellation of a building permit)
  • Criminal law of public action (favoritism, influence peddling, illegal interest-taking, endangering the life of others, forgery, corruption)