White-Collar Crime and Compliance

Experience & Expertise

Schellenberg Wittmer’s Compliance and White-Collar Crime Group has considerable experience in providing advice on and/or court representation for a wide variety of business crime matters and fields related to it. They include:

  • compliance programs 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 legal and administrative (including tax) assistance;  
  • undertakings to locate, freeze and recover the proceeds of national and cross-border fraud and other crime;  
  • representation of the victims of fraud and other business-related offenses in domestic criminal proceedings;  
  • white-collar crime defense work.
We represent clients before Swiss cantonal and federal authorities and courts at all levels.

Contacts

Paul Gully-Hart
Partner
Geneva

Peter Burckhardt
Partner
Zurich