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Schellenberg Wittmer’s Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Group advises on all legal matters related to ICT. Data privacy, both under Swiss law and the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), new technologies and cybersecurity build further strong pillars of the practice group.

For projects and transactions, the ICT Group is fully skilled in all contractual, transactional and regulatory matters in different industry sectors (e.g. finance, life sciences, retail) and has immediate access to specific expertise and resources in related areas of law (e.g. intellectual property, employment, competition, regulatory, litigation and arbitration).

Schellenberg Wittmer has considerable experience in providing advice and/or court representation for a wide variety of business crime matters and related fields, including:

• Compliance programmes arising under regulations related to anti-money laundering, insider dealing, market conduct, anti-corruption, etc.
• Data protection legislation and disclosure requirements
• Corporate and directors’ criminal liability
• Criminal liability in insolvency situations
• Regulatory proceedings
• International assistance in criminal and regulatory matters
• Actions and proceedings to locate, freeze and recover the proceeds of national and cross-border fraud and other financial crime
• Representation of victims of fraud and other business-related offences in domestic criminal proceedings
• White-collar crime defence work