Clémence Witt
Clémence Witt has been a lawyer at the Paris Bar since 2012 and at the Barcelona Bar since 2023.
After graduating from the Sciences Po Paris Law School (Master “Legal and Judiciary Career”) and from the Panthéon-Assas University (Master II in Human and Humanitarian Rights, Criminal science certificate), Clémence Witt worked in Cambodia in the defense team conducted by Jacques Vergès before the Extraordinary Chambers set up by the United Nations. She then became an associate of the President of the Paris Bar Pierre-Olivier Sur practicing mainly criminal law, white collar crime, international criminal law and media law, both in France and abroad (Argentina, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, India, Lebanon, Libya, Mexico, Tunisia).
In 2015, Clémence Witt was elected “Secrétaire de la Conférence” and intervenes therefore in a lot of criminal cases with high media stakes, such as those of the terrorist attacks of January 2015, November 13th and Nice.
In 2017, she created the firm Chavanne & Witt Avocats with Matthieu Chavanne and opened a secondary office in Barcelona in 2023, before founding Siano in 2024.
Clémence Witt has developed an expertise in extradition proceedings (International and European arrest warrants and Interpol red notices) as well as international crimes (crimes against humanity and war crimes), representing for example the victims of the chemical attacks that occurred in Syria in August 2013.
Since 2019, she is a lecturer in substantive and procedural criminal law at Sciences Po.
General criminal law - White collar crime - International criminal law - Media law
Working languages: French, English, Spanish
French Association of Criminal Lawyers (ADAP), European Criminal Bar Association (ECBA)
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