We represent our clients before authorities and courts in all areas of corporate, contract and business law as well as related matters, such as intellectual property rights, employment disputes, debt enforcement, family and inheritance law, including the handling of any type of provisional remedies in relation therewith (attachment, seizures, temporary injunctions, letters of protection).

Experienced and skilled in recognition and enforcement of foreign decisions, we also specialize in the field of both civil and criminal mutual legal assistance matters.

Our team of highly-trained and experienced specialists is committed to dealing efficiently and professionally any type of national or international disputes. We often advise client in major cross-boarder and multi-jurisdictional litigations.

We assist and represent our clients to their best interests. Therefore, we systematically perform an in-depth analysis of the matter and balance the risks, strengths, and weaknesses of each situation. We are committed to identifying, together with our clients, the most adequate strategy and consider for that purpose a wide range of options, including the opportunities offered by ADR, as may be appropriate.

As a multilingual and multicultural team, we are qualified to conduct procedures in both common law and civil law jurisdictions, either directly or through our solid network of correspondent firms.

Selected cases:

• Representing the US Stanford Receivership, in relation to numerous lawsuits conducted in Switzerland pertaining to the recovery of the assets fraudulently obtained by Robert Allen Stanford, with the purpose of their further distribution to the creditors (recognition of bank bankruptcy with FINMA, Swiss criminal proceeding, criminal and civil mutual legal assistance, etc)
• CHS Finance in liquidation: trustee and liquidator of the Swiss bankruptcy estate of the third most important hardware retailer, CHS Electronics, Miami, which owned about 70 affiliates and subsidiaries; in addition to numerous civil litigations and debt collection proceedings against debtors of the bankruptcy estates, liability claims are conducted against the former managers of the company as well as complex multi-jurisdictional financial criminal proceedings
• Assistance in order to obtain the lift of the undue seizure of assets by alleged foreign creditors
• M&A: representing an international insurance company in the context of a litigation over the acquisition of a company
• Several civil lawsuits against banks connected to assets managers having performed activities which were contrary to their clients’ instructions
• Representation of banks and financial institutions in proceedings related to the so-called « Madoff scandal »
• Conducting lawsuits related to complex multi-jurisdictional inheritance disputes (France, Argentina, UK, Canada)
• Representation of a board member in the « Swissair » proceeding
• Assisting various executives in connection with allegations of embezzlement, disloyal management, fraud, corruption etc.
• Representing an elite athlete in connection with an employment related lawsuit
• Civil and criminal mutual legal assistance proceedings with the US, UK, Germany, France, Italy, Venezuela, Argentina, Brasil, Mexico, Turkey, Poland etc.