Fanny Margairaz

Practice Areas

As a member of MANGEAT Financial Crime and Investigations team, Fanny Margairaz's main practice areas are Litigation and Dispute Management, Financial Crime and Asset Tracing.

Selected cases include:

Representing a foreign client accused of money laundering and corruption of foreign public

officials, and assisting him in relation to the freezing by the Swiss Office of the Attorney General

of his assets amounting to CHF 4.5 M;

Representing a foreign sovereign fund after Swiss claimant company has obtained an attachment

over CHF 11 M deposited in its Swiss accounts in relation to an alleged debt owed by another

foreign entity;

Representing a close relative of a leader of a foreign State suspected to have received bribes

in the context of a major international bribery scandal following which CHF 800 M deposited in

Swiss banks have been attached by the Swiss Office of the Attorney General;

Representing a foreign client whose assets up to EUR 4 M were seized by the Geneva Office of

the Attorney General within the context of an international mutual legal assistance proceedings

opened in Switzerland after he got caught in a criminal procedure for alleged fraudulent public

procurements in his country;

Representing clients in their dispute against their former Swiss asset manager related to the

latter’s improper performance of the asset management contract which caused them a loss

around CHF 1 M;

Representing a client targeted by several requests of administrative assistance sent by the

French Financial market authority (AMF) to the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority

(FINMA) within the context of investigations related to possible use of inside information in

various French stock exchange operations;

Representing a foreign client in a dispute against a Swiss watch company for infringement of

copyrights.

Career

Fanny Margairaz is a member of our Financial Crime and Investigations team. Her main practice areas are Litigation and Dispute Management, Financial Crime and Asset Tracing.

She has experience in a wide range of contentious matters including commercial disputes, financial crime and asset tracing, and regularly represents domestic and international clients before the courts.

She holds a Master of Advanced Studies HES-SO in Economic Crime Investigation (MAS LCE) from the Institute of Economic Crime Investigation (ILCE – HEG Arc) in Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

Before joining the team, Fanny completed her training with the Geneva Tribunal of First Instance and with a mid-sized Geneva-based law firm.

She also holds a master degree in European and International Law as well as a certificate in Transnational Law from the University of Geneva. During her legal studies she spent a year at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland, as well as a year at the University of Sheffield, UK, as an exchange student.

Before joining Mangeat Attorneys at Law, Fanny was associate in the International Arbitration and Litigation team at Eversheds Sutherland in Geneva.

Professional Memberships

Geneva Bar Association (ODA)

Swiss Bar Association

Women’s White Collar Defense Association (WWCDA)

Publications

Swiss Contribution in “The Anti-Bribery and Anti-Corruption Review”, Fanny Margairaz, Romain Wavre, in Lexology (2023-2025)

Swiss Contribution in “White Collar Crime - Chambers & Partners Global Practice Guide”, Grégoire Mangeat, Fanny Margairaz (2019 – 2023)

Swiss Contribution in “Global Legal Insights - Bribery & Corruption”, Grégoire Mangeat, Fanny Margairaz (11.2013)