“The LALIVE team is very strong and efficient. The lawyers are relentless.” Chambers Europe, Switzerland, White-collar crime, 2024
“LALIVE is an excellent firm and team of lawyers to work with. They are prompt in response with reliable research and advice.” Chambers Europe, White Collar Crime, 2023
“The team of LALIVE have extraordinary professional knowledge and rich practical experience, while being honest and loyal to the clients. Creative, indefatigable, user friendly.” Legal 500, EMEA, Dispute Resolution, 2023

Leading the field in White Collar Crime 

LALIVE’s white collar crime team has built a formidable reputation in Switzerland and internationally. Our Chambers Band 1-rated team handles high profile, complex and multi-jurisdictional cases, as well as mutual judicial assistance proceedings, including extradition.

We are trusted by States, companies and individuals alike in all facets of financial crime (corruption, money laundering, fraud, embezzlement, disloyal management), sanctions-related offences, asset tracing and recovery, and cybercrime.

Bespoke teams, rounded perspective, international outlook

Our clients’ needs are unique, so our teams and solutions are too. Our experts in the field include former Swiss prosecutors and members of the judiciary, allowing us to provide rounded strategic advice for every case.

We routinely act on cross-border, multi-jurisdictional matters. We provide a global perspective in every case, coordinating or collaborating with our strong network of white collar crime specialists around the world when needed.

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Experience

Acting for an important Middle Eastern Group in an international fraud case worth USD 9 billion, involving several jurisdictions, namely Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the Cayman Islands, the UK and Switzerland, in the enforcement of a USD 1.5 billion promissory note in Switzerland and the recognition and enforcement of a foreign interim award before the Swiss Federal Supreme Court

Acting for a telecommunications company in a USD 500 million case involving civil and criminal proceedings in Switzerland and the UK, including criminal proceedings against the former management for mismanagement and forgery vis-à-vis investors

Representing an independent oil trading and shipping company in a USD 195 million dispute over a credit facility provided by a leading international bank based in Geneva, for which the bank obtained the attachment of the client’s Swiss accounts based on allegations of fraud and mismanagement and initiated criminal and civil proceedings in Switzerland and Dubai

Acting for several major institutional and UHNW investors over potential losses of more than USD 2.5 billion incurred in connection with the Greensill collapse

Representing a collective of 157 private plaintiffs in the distribution of over USD 100 million of assets confiscated from fraudsters in criminal proceedings following a complex fraudulent Ponzi scheme masked as a business corporation

Our team

Daniel Lucien Bühr

Partner
Zurich

Sandrine Giroud

Partner
Geneva

Benoît A Mauron

Partner
Geneva

Nicolas Ollivier

Partner
Geneva
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