Daniel Lucien Bühr

Partner, Zurich

+41 58 105 2100

dbuhr@lalive.law

Daniel Lucien Bühr

Daniel specialises in corporate governance, regulatory compliance and risk management, white collar crime, principally focusing on board oversight, investigations, sustainability due diligence and reporting. He also advises and represents clients in commercial litigation.

Recognised as a “standout investigations lawyer celebrated for his expertise across corporate and regulatory compliance as well as risk management matters” (Lexology Index, Switzerland, Investigations, Recommended, 2025), Daniel Lucien Bühr is widely regarded as a leading authority in the field. As team head, he “acts for corporate and financial sector clients on high-value and landmark financial crime investigations and proceedings” (Legal 500 EMEA, Switzerland, Regulatory, Compliance and Investigations, Leading Partner, 2025), bringing a wealth of experience and strategic insight to complex cross-border matters.

Recognition

Team head Daniel Lucien Bühr acts for corporate and financial sector clients on high-value and landmark financial crime investigations and proceedings.
Legal 500 EMEA, Switzerland, Regulatory, Compliance and Investigations (Leading Partner), 2025

“Daniel Bühr is a standout investigations lawyer celebrated for his expertise across corporate and regulatory compliance as well as risk management matters. His wealth of experience and deftness solidify his reputation as a leading authority in the field.”
Lexology Index (former WWL), Switzerland, Investigations (Recommended), 2025

“Daniel is one of the most active, reputed and experienced legal counsels for Compliance issues in Switzerland.”
Legal 500 EMEA, Switzerland, Regulatory, Compliance and Investigations, 2023

Recent publications

Increase in corporate and senior management criminal liability enforcement in Switzerland
DANIEL BÜHR, BENOÎT A. MAURON, ADAM EL-HAKIM, ALEXANDRE SCHWAB
In: Lexology (online), LALIVE Insights, March 2025

ESG Update: The new Swiss National Action Plan on BHR, two constitutional initiatives, and the revision of the Swiss non-financial reporting regime
DANIEL BÜHR, SANDRINE GIROUD, ANTON VALLÉLIAN, CHRISTELLE COMECHE
In: Lexology (online), LALIVE Insights, January 2025

Are sustainability goals merely yesterday’s utopian dream? Not at all!
DANIEL BÜHR
In: NZZ, 23 November 2024

Recent conferences

Europa Institut an der Universität Zürich - 3. Tagung zu Kontrollsystemen: Good Governance von Aufsicht und Kontrolle: Neue Ansätze, erhöhte Wirksamkeit
DANIEL LUCIEN BüHR, Role: Organiser/Moderator/Speaker on Governance Trends, 3rd conference on control systems: Good governance of supervision and control: New approaches, increased effectiveness
Zurich and Live Stream, 14 March 2024

Kisaco Research - Economic Crime Prevention Switzerland  - ESG & Compliance
DANIEL LUCIEN BüHR, Role: Moderator, Interview with Mr Juergen Boehler-Royett Marcano, Swiss State Secretariat of Economic Affairs) and Speaker: ISO Standard 37000 – Governance of organizations
Zurich, 5 April 2022

Europa Institut an der Universität Zürich - 2. Tagung zu Kontrollsystemen: ESG und wirksame Aufsicht und Kontrolle
DANIEL LUCIEN BüHR, Role: Organiser, Moderator, Speaker, 2nd Conference on Control Systems: ESG and effective oversight: Governance Trends
Zurich and Live-Stream, 31 March 2022

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Current professional memberships

  • Founding member of the International Academy of Financial Crime Litigators (IAFCL)
  • Member of the European Board of the International Association of Independent Corporate Monitors (IAICM)
  • Member of the Expert Committees on governance of organisations and on compliance management systems of the International Organisation for Standardization (ISO)

Career history

  • Partner, LALIVE, 2011 – present
  • Legal Counsel, Swiss multinational, 2006 – 2011

Academic qualifications

  • EMBA, Columbia University, New York, 2004
  • EMBA, London Business School, 2004
  • PhD, University of Berne (summa cum laude), 1993
  • Bar exam, Canton of Berne (magna cum laude), 1991
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Practices

  • Corporate Commercial Advisory
  • Commercial Litigation
  • ESG
  • Investigations, Regulatory & Compliance
  • White Collar Crime

Languages

  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Italian
  • Dutch

Nationality

  • Swiss

Admission

  • Switzerland, 1991
“..one of the most active, reputed and experienced legal counsels for Compliance issues in Switzerland” Legal 500 EMEA, Regulatory, compliance and investigations 2023