Criminal proceedings
Matviyiv & Partners’ Criminal proceedings practice focuses on protecting clients, both businesses and individuals – management and public servants – in criminal proceedings.
Our services:
- Protection from pressure on behalf of law enforcement authorities
- Analysis of transactions, documents, and actions of company officials for compliance with the law and minimization of criminal and legal risks
- Conducting internal audits, as well as briefing business top officials on the procedural aspects of the potential investigations and audits of state authorities
- Representing clients’ interests in regulatory and law enforcement agencies, providing legal assistance during inspections and upon receipt of requests from regulatory and law enforcement agencies
- Conducting attorneys’ investigations (including sending attorneys’ inquiries, collecting evidence to confirm innocence in an alleged criminal offense, affirming circumstances that are grounds for exemption from criminal liability, criminal charges or mitigation thereof)
- Comprehensive protection of business interests in various procedural statuses at the pre-trial investigation stage, including:
- appeal against decisions, actions and failure to act of the investigator, prosecutor and investigating judge
- legal representation aiming at the compensation of damages caused by a crime
- Representing clients in criminal proceedings.