Peter Burckhardt

White-Collar Crime and Compliance / Internal Corporate Investigations / Financial Services / Sanctions Group / IT Security and Cybercrime / Employment / International Arbitration / Dispute Resolution

Peter Burckhardt leads Schellenberg Wittmer's White-Collar Crime & Compliance and the Internal Corporate Investigations teams in Zurich. Peter has developed a strong practice in complex criminal, regulatory and civil litigation matters, often involving multi-jurisdictional components. He is also frequently retained to conduct internal investigations for a broad range of topics.

- Swiss lead counsel in several high-profile criminal investigations relating to foreign corruption which settled in multi-jurisdictional resolutions, including for a listed commodity trading and mining group headquartered in Switzerland and for a major Brazilian construction group in the Petrobras matter

- Defending a global Swiss bank in a money laundering investigation related to foreign corruption

- Representing a German car manufacturer against consumer mass claims in the context of the Diesel affair

- Swiss lead counsel to a global bank headquartered in Switzerland in the U.S. tax dispute

- Defending a major bank in a Ponzi scheme fraud investigation and related civil and regulatory action

- Defending a member of top management of a global bank in criminal and regulatory proceedings by Swiss and U.S. law enforcement

- Defending an ousted head of state in a corruption and money laundering investigation