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Provided by Yves Klein
Admitted to the bars of Geneva and Switzerland since 1995, Yves Klein is an international asset recovery lawyer, and a partner at Monfrini Bitton Klein. His main activity is litigating and coordinating transnational asset recovery proceedings before civil, criminal and bankruptcy courts on behalf of victims of economic crimes. He is also active in business crime and anti-corruption proceedings. He is representative for Switzerland of ICC FraudNet, the world’s leading asset recovery network. He is fluent in French, English, Portuguese and Spanish, and speaks some Italian and German.
Switzerland, Enforcement of Judgments 2021-2023, Chambers and Partners' Global Practice Guide
Enforcement of judgments and arbitral awards in Switzerland: overview, Enforcement of Judgments and Arbitral Awards in Commercial Matters Global Guide, Practical Law, Thomson Reuters, 2020-2023
Switzerland, The Asset Tracing and Recovery Review, Law Business Research, September 2019-2023
A new Swiss §1782? Article 185a PILA and the assistance of Swiss courts in support of foreign arbitral evidentiary proceedings, ThoughtLeaders 4 FIRE Magazine, June 2022
Trust your standing! Standing of beneficiaries of trusts and foundations in Swiss criminal or mutual assistance proceedings, Mondaq, December 2021
Hand over the keys to the safe! Obligation of Swiss banks to provide information in bankruptcy proceedings, including evidence against themselves, Mondaq, November 2021
Switzerland: Post-Brexit Enforcement Of UK Judgments In Switzerland: All Is Not Lost, Mondaq, September 2021
Switzerland: Privileged Or Not Privileged? Privilege Of Communications With Non-Swiss Lawyers In Criminal Investigations, Mondaq, September 2021
Better than damages: actions for performance against Swiss banks regarding fraudulent transfers, Mondaq, November 2021
A journey between distant places: how Saad Group’s Cayman liquidators are seeking compensation from foreign banks, Insol World, Q3, November 2020
Switzerland, The Anti-Bribery and Anti-Corruption Review, Law Business Research, 2016-2019
Suíça: como as novas regras de homologação de falências estrangeiras beneficiarão os credores Brasileiros (Switzerland: how new cross-border insolvency rules will benefit Brazilian creditors), A Insolvência, IBAJUD - Instituto Brasileiro de Administração Judicial, São Paulo, November 2018
Switzerland: Improving Cooperation To Recover Assets In Cross-Border Insolvency Cases, Legal Era, Mumbai, April 2018
Switzerland - A new hope? The Swiss Government adopts its Dispatch to the Parliament on an amendment to the provisions governing recognition of foreign insolvencies, Lexology, June 2017
A Civil Perspective on Asset Recovery (with a Focus on Swiss Law), The International Who’s Who of Asset Recovery Lawyers, London, 2014
Emergence of the Mareva by Letter: banks' liability to noncustomer victims of fraud, Business Law International, London, May 2011
L’État requérant lésé par l’organisation criminelle : L’exemple des cas Abacha et Duvalier, Etat de droit et confiscation internationale, Edis, Geneva, 2010
The Abacha Case, Recovering Stolen Assets, Peter Lang, Bern, 2008
Switzerland, International Tracing of Assets, Sweet & Maxwell, London, 1996
Switzerland, Asset Tracing & Recovery - The FraudNet World Compendium, Eric Schmidt Verlag, 2009
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Yves Klein is a very good lawyer - one of the top practitioners - very smart and very reliable, and he will guide you onto the best path for the case.
Yves Klein is deeply knowledgeable and can speak the language of international litigation very well. He's super commercial and has a broad understanding of managing these multi-jurisdictional cases.
Yves Klein is one of the best asset recovery lawyers in Switzerland: he's the guy you want on your side for asset recovery.
Yves Klein is a very good lawyer - one of the top practitioners - very smart and very reliable, and he will guide you onto the best path for the case.
Yves Klein is deeply knowledgeable and can speak the language of international litigation very well. He's super commercial and has a broad understanding of managing these multi-jurisdictional cases.
Yves Klein is one of the best asset recovery lawyers in Switzerland: he's the guy you want on your side for asset recovery.
