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Lalive

Asset Tracing & Recovery (Law Firms)

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High stakes global asset recovery

We are renowned for successfully tracing and recovering assets in Switzerland and across the world in high-profile, complex, and often multi-jurisdictional matters for corporations, governments, public entities and high-net worth individuals. Our team has secured landmark victories in both domestic and international proceedings, helping shape the standards for asset recovery and enforcement. We are involved in some of the world’s most significant asset recovery cases, covering unpaid debts, fraud, misappropriation, corruption, money laundering, and mismanagement and any type of assets.

We bring together deep expertise in the enforcement of judgments and arbitral awards, with a particular focus on sovereign assets, banking and finance, white-collar crime, and cross-border insolvency. Our international network of law firms and forensic experts allows us to lead, coordinate, or support global recovery strategies with precision and efficiency.

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Asset Tracing & Recovery (Law Firms) - Global-wide

Band 2

What the Team is Known For
Swiss firm Lalive acts on behalf of governments, companies and individuals in order to recover misappropriated assets or debts. The firm handles multi-jurisdictional, complex and high-stakes disputes and regularly secures claims through attachment proceedings, obtaining freezing orders and enforcing judgments or arbitral awards.
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Strengths

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  • Lalive’s strength is its deep experience in complex cross-border asset recovery and enforcement.

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  • Lalive provides tailored guidance and commitment to our specific needs. The team is also responsive, take on a pragmatic approach, strategic thinking, and professional.

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  • Lalive has highly competent lawyers who give excellent advice.

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  • Lalive shows excellence in what they do. The law firm pays great attention to detail and is also able to zoom out and see the bigger picture, including all the geopolitical complexities and so has a very international perspective on issues.

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Notable Practitioners

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  • Sandrine Giroud
    Sandrine Giroud

    Sandrine Giroud

    Sandrine Giroud specialises in domestic and international litigation, with a focus on asset recovery in fraud and white-collar crime matters. She regularly advises clients on freezing orders, recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments and awards, and cross-border insolvency proceedings.

    • Sandrine is extremely efficient and highly responsive. She regularly introduces thoughtful and innovative strategies that materially improve our position in complex cases.

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    • Sandrine is impressive. She gets results and inspires a lot of confidence in the clients.

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    • Sandrine has great foresight on cross border disputes.

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