August Debouzy

Litigation Arbitration White-collar crime

Partner

Astrid Mignon Colombet is a partner at August Debouzy specialising in White-Collar Crime - Investigations.

Astrid has over twenty years of experience in handling complex and high-profile criminal defense cases (Concorde crash, Erika oil spill, AZF explosion, bribery of foreign public officials, transnational negotiated justice and laundering of tax fraud).

She represents companies and executives in criminal proceedings, at all stages, and assists them with sensitive topics such as crisis management, conduct of internal investigations and appropriate judicial strategies and awareness of governing bodies.

Astrid teaches economic criminal law at Sciences Po Paris, regularly publishes articles in European and French legal journals and is an active member of the International Bar Association (board member of the IBA Criminal Committee and liaison officer to the Ethics Committee of the IBA). She also serves as a rapporteur in the commission Convention Judiciaire d’Intérêt Public (CJIP) of the Club des juristes opened in 2024.

Astrid has been individually ranked and recognised in the categories “White-Collar Crime” and “Corporate Compliance & Investigations” by the prestigious and leading independent professional legal research firms Chambers & Partners Europe 2023 and Legal 500 EMEA 2023.

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Admitted to the Paris bar in 2003

Lawyer at the Paris Bar since 2003 Doctor of Law degree from Panthéon-Sorbonne University (2002) Graduated from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) (1996)