Through continuous training and hands-on experience with complex, high-stakes matters, we advise and represent clients to the highest professional standards.

We are particularly active in highly regulated sectors, including banking and financial services, where compliance obligations are stringent and exposure to white-collar crime risks is significant. Our work covers all major compliance areas, including anti-money laundering (AML), sanctions, anti-corruption, and market manipulation.

Several members of our team are regularly appointed by cantonal and federal authorities to conduct investigations involving financial institutions and pension funds. We are also mandated as CDB Investigating Officers by the Swiss Bankers Association (SBA). The sophistication and sensitivity of the matters we handle position our firm among the leading Swiss players in white-collar crime.

We represent clients before Swiss criminal, administrative, and regulatory authorities in proceedings related to white-collar crime. Our practice also extends to international mutual legal assistance in criminal matters, including cross-border cooperation, information exchanges, assistance requests, and asset recovery.

We assist clients in civil discovery proceedings that may give rise to or reveal criminal exposure, and we defend their interests in asset freezing, confiscation, and restitution proceedings.

Our team has extensive experience conducting internal investigations, both preventive and in connection with Swiss and foreign criminal, administrative, or civil proceedings. These investigations involve matters such as money laundering, corruption, cross-border tax fraud, and market manipulation.

We advise on evidence gathering and data transfers under Swiss law and support clients in implementing procedural steps in Switzerland at the request of foreign authorities.

Beyond investigations and litigation, we guide clients through corrective and organizational measures, including the enhancement of internal controls, procedures, and codes of conduct. We also design and implement tailor-made compliance programs, covering AML frameworks, anti-corruption policies, and sanctions management.

We regularly advise boards of directors and senior management on strategic decision-making in situations involving criminal risk, as well as on regulatory or criminal self-reporting, both in Switzerland and abroad (including proceedings involving the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland, FINMA, SBA, SECO, OFAC, and the U.S. Department of Justice).