Thierry Marembert

SCP Kiejman & Marembert, the Paris litigation practice led by managing partner Thierry Marembert, has been named International White-Collar Crime Law Firm of the Year in France at the 2024 Corporate INTL Global Awards. The recognition reflects the firm's standing as one of the country's leading practices in complex, high-stakes contentious matters, including the business criminal work for which it is particularly well known.

The firm was established in 2000 by Georges Kiejman and Thierry Marembert and today brings together a compact team of around a dozen lawyers practising in French and international law. It has deliberately retained the character of a boutique, concentrating its resources on sophisticated disputes with significant strategic and economic implications rather than pursuing scale for its own sake. That focus has allowed it to build a reputation for handling the kind of sensitive litigation in which reputation, liberty and substantial financial interests are all at stake.

Business criminal law, or droit pénal des affaires, sits at the heart of the practice, and it is this expertise that underpins the firm's award for international white-collar crime work. Alongside it, the firm advises on general business law, media and press law, and matters touching the cultural industries, intellectual property, the arts and entertainment. This combination allows it to act across the commercial and cultural spheres, often where the two intersect, and to bring a litigator's instincts to bear on questions that reach well beyond the courtroom.

The firm's clientele is correspondingly broad and demanding. It acts for publicly traded companies, major industrial groups, international institutions, cultural organisations, mid-sized enterprises and family offices, as well as film and audiovisual production companies, media groups and corporate executives. It is also known for representing prominent figures drawn from art, culture, literature, fashion and sport, individuals whose affairs frequently attract public attention and require both legal skill and discretion. Serving such a range of clients calls for an ability to move fluently between the commercial, the criminal and the reputational dimensions of a dispute.

Thierry Marembert, as managing partner, has helped shape the firm's identity as a practice "driven by a taste for excellence and challenge", to borrow the ethos it sets out for itself. Under his stewardship the firm has positioned itself among France's foremost names for handling the most demanding contentious instructions, particularly those with a cross-border, white-collar dimension. The Corporate INTL Global Awards recognise firms that combine specialist depth with a clear command of their field within a jurisdiction, and in naming SCP Kiejman & Marembert International White-Collar Crime Law Firm of the Year in France for 2024, the awards affirm the firm's continued prominence in an area where experience, judgement and strategic clarity are decisive.