Joséphine de Sonneville

Joséphine de Sonneville represents corporate clients, executives and high-profile individuals in complex white collar crime litigation before French courts.

Ms. de Sonneville particularly focuses on financial fraud, money laundering and labor-related criminal law, and she has several years of experience managing complex corporate criminal cases that involve domestic or cross-border issues and proceedings.

Ms. de Sonneville’s experience prior to joining Skadden includes, among others, representing:

• the chief financial officer of an agribusiness corporation in Parquet National Financier proceedings regarding alleged corporate tax fraud of more than €1 billion
• a major railway company accused of discriminatory labor practices in a matter that was referred twice to the criminal chamber of France’s Court of Appeal following cassation
• a French mayor indicted in a criminal investigation for alleged favoritism, corruption and unlawful taking of interests
• one of Paris’ leading auction houses in a criminal money laundering investigation