MONFRINI BITTON KLEIN

Founder: Enrico Monfrini (of counsel)

Senior Partners: Yves Klein, David Bitton

Number of partners: 5

Number of lawyers: 11

Languages: English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish

Firm Overview:

Founded in 1978 by Enrico Monfrini, the firm became renown in international business law, complex litigation and arbitration. Since the end of the 1990s, Monfrini and Yves Klein developed the asset recovery practice of the firm by representing foreign governments in grand corruption cases, shareholders involved in class actions, bankrupt estates, victims of Ponzi schemes, and defrauded companies and individuals. With the arrival of David Bitton in 2015, the firm strengthened its white-collar crime and high-stakes divorces practices. In 2017, the firm changed its name and became a litigation-only practice in order to offer conflictfree services to its clients, focusing on asset recovery and white-collar crime proceedings. As the representative for Switzerland of ICC FraudNet, the leading global network of fraud and asset recovery lawyers, the firm benefits from correspondents in more than 70 jurisdictions and litigation support professionals, such as forensic accountants, insolvency practitioners, investigators and litigation funders. The asset-tracing skills and connections of the firm are also at the disposal of individual and corporate clients seeking to enforce commercial, matrimonial or estate claims, judgments and arbitral awards, in Switzerland or elsewhere.

Main Areas of Practice:

Asset Recovery:

The firm is best known for being a global leader in conducting worldwide high-value recovery proceedings on behalf of foreign governments, victims of grand corruption and liquidators of insolvent banks. Over its history, the firm has developed innovative asset-recovery techniques, using a unique combination of criminal, mutual assistance, bankruptcy and civil proceedings to obtain compensation for its clients.

Contact: Yves Klein

Email: [email protected]