Bénédicte Graulle

Bénédicte Graulle focuses on criminal litigation and criminal business law, particularly in financial and industrial matters, as well as on cybercrime.

Bénédicte assists clients in all stages of criminal proceedings, both as victims and defendants, in France and abroad. She also provides assistance during inspections performed by the French Anti-corruption Agency as well as in judicial and administrative investigations (conducted by an investigating judge, police officers, the AMF, DGCCRF, or customs), dawn raids, and searches and seizures. She is listed yearly among the best white collar crime practitioners in The Legal 500 EMEA and Option Droit & Finance.

Bénédicte has significant experience in internal investigations and compliance, including anti-bribery, corruption, stock trading and market manipulation offenses, and anti-money laundering issues.

She advises companies and their directors on preventing criminal risk by handling risk audits on their behalf and by implementing in-house procedures, such as appropriate delegations of authority.

Bénédicte has been involved in criminal law cases concerning financial, political, environmental, health and safety, transportation matters (including cases that resulted from industrial, maritime, and air catastrophes), and cyber attacks.

She has launched a series of seminars on criminal law and regularly authors articles in the economic and legal press on criminal regulation and cybercrime. She also provides training on cybercrime at the Intellectual Property Research Institute (IPRI).

Prior to joining Jones Day, Bénédicte worked for 10 years at a leading French boutique criminal law firm, which was led by the former head of the Paris Bar and one of the best known criminal defense lawyers in France. She is also a former Secrétaire de la Conférence, the moot court competition of the Paris Bar (2004).