Amaury Bousquet

Amaury assists domestic and international clients on all their white collar crime disputes and accompanies them in preventing criminal risk. He helps them, where necessary, in relation to investigations and proceedings by regulators and enforcement authorities, in France and abroad. He mainly focuses on corruption, bribery, money laundering, fraud and corporate misconduct.
Amaury also advises clients in connection with a range of compliance issues (anti-corruption, anti-money laundering, duty of care, whistleblowing, etc.). He has significant practical experience in designing anti-corruption compliance policies and programmes and preparing for the inspections conducted by the French Anti-Corruption Agency (AFA). He has assisted a wide number of French groups in the frame of the AFA inspections.

He has experience related to assessing criminal risk in M&A and conducting internal investigations and compliance audits.

Amaury has successfully advised a distribution giant in relation to the first case ever heard by the Enforcement Committee (Commission des sanctions) of the French Anti-Corruption Agency. The Enforcement Committee found the group to be fully compliant with the requirements of the Sapin II law.

Background

Before joining Herbert Smith Freehills in 2019, Amaury worked at French and foreign law firms, legal and compliance departments of corporates and international organizations.

He is a member of the Paris Bar and is fluent in English. He is a graduate of the University of Nancy II, the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and the University of Paris II Panthéon Assas. He is a member of the Association des Avocats Pénalistes, European Criminal Bar Association and European Fraud and Compliance Lawyers. He has also been an auditor at the École du Louvre.